Freehand Sketching

Freehand Sketching for Presentations

This week’s reading covered different ways to enhance our renderings, whether it be in elevations, sections, perspectives, or in plans. It emphasized how helpful surrounding details – the entourage – effect the overall delivery of the design concept. The design can be communicated more effectively with trees and bushes, and human figures and cars.

Trees and Bushes

The book defines the surrounding area of the main space as the entourage. It is used to enhance the quality and add more interest to your two-dimensional or three-dimensional drawing. There are three different types: trees, human figures, and cars. Trees can be used in any drawing, especially in elevations and sections because they are usually the main background. Due to the fact that there are different shapes to different trees, it is important to familiarize yourself with drawing a few different ones, or each one. Pine trees, for example, are shaped more like a cone and are typically a darker green. This means that when drawing them, it is best to focus on a larger bottom and thinner top, with the majority of its color being a darker green. When it comes to trunks and branches, they are relatively more cylindrical with irregular edges. This means it is not as important for the lines to be straight and “perfect” because in nature, they aren’t. As for bushes, they take on a circular shape and depending on which direction the light is coming from, can be darker on the bottom and lighter on the top. With any of these plants, it is important to sketch with pencil first, add your color, and then add detail and outline some parts with a thin Sharpie.

Human Figures and Cars

Adding humans, or the illusion of a person, can make your drawing more realistic and provide an immediate sense of scale. Typically, depending on your style, people can be drawn quite simply or rather abstractly. The location is also critical and while people will typically be drawn at the entrance of the space, it is not uncommon for designers to draw them near places that they want to emphasize, further balancing out the drawing.

Although interior designers do not focus a ton on the exterior of a space, it is still important to understand how adding a patio or car into your drawing can illuminate it even more. It may be hard to understand, considering cars do not aid much in the communication of an interior space, that adding in these surroundings make a drawing more fun and vital.

Sketchbook #10 – Entourage: Trees and Bushes





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  1. Rebeca HerreraMarch 23, 2024 at 2:22 PM

    I really liked your summary about how surrounding details can improve renderings. Your sketches turned out really good!

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