arch. illustration

[blindleader]

Hi all,

You can read my introductory post if you care to know who I am.

A current school project I have is to write a journal article giving a critical analysis of an architectural work from the Modern period. It has to contain illustrations. I am doing Mies van der Rohe's Brick Country House. It was an unbuilt project from 1923, and its importance lies in the way he made the interior and exterior spaces, and interioir to interior spaces, very fluid, there's no distinct line where one room ends and another starts. Residential architecture at that time was one of compartmentation, very distinct rooms/cubes stacked side by side, so this was quite revolutionary. De stijl art played a large part in his development of this concept - most evident in the plan view of this building.
With that in mind my illustrations are to take on a very abstracted and reduced representation of fluid space. Do you get any sense of depth and fluidity from my image? I hope so. I'll post more as I do them if anyone's interested.

http://www.argo.net.au/philipad/junk/interior_01.jpg


thanks,
blindleader

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[blindleader]

BTW. the one above is an interior view.

Here is a thumbnail of what I'll do as an exterior view.

http://www.argo.net.au/philipad/junk/exterior_01.jpg

C+C welcome.

Oh, and I think this is probably the wrong section, so feel free to move it to where it belongs :)

thanks,
blindleader

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[blindleader]

147 views and nothing but silence :confused:

Lil update:

http://www.argo.net.au/philipad/junk/exterior_02.jpg

Maybe I'll stick to orcs and mech from now on. ?

[killing.people]

:funny:

thanks for sharing.

[Snowfly]

Get your perspectives right, architect. That should get you started. Ruulller.


Oh, and thanks for implying that orcs and mechs are all we enjoy.

[blindleader]

what perspective, yours or mine?

these are not technical illustrations. they are not meant to look real. They are nothing more than abstract representations of space and depth.

I only asked if you feel any sense of depth from the images.

I do not need your advice on perspective drawing thankyou.

Sorry for the orc/mech comment ,I forgot to add the ( ;) ) at the end. My apologies.


Moderator/Administrator, feel free to unregister my profile.

[Lionel]

Well people take time to reply. I you really want some critics I will give you some. Snowfly is right about the perspective thing imoh as although what you may want to produce is abstract shapes but they are still shapes and all the traditional perspective tricks will help you acive that. Some of you lines are not as straight as they might be which if it is initention is not reflected in your shading which is spoiling you perspective and stopping the senes of depth. You shading itself is too grey for my liking. If you want to create a lot more depth in you pieces then use the while on the paper don't try and color it all in as your pieces look a bit grey. This will give you more contrast to play with. Your shading is also a little uneven which hurts the depth of the piece propably because the grain of the paper is showing through. I would sugest using a finer grained paper to get a more even shading. It might help to render some shadows to help give depth to image unless they are something you want to avoid. Lastly if you want to improve at this sort of drawing I would sugest trying to render real rooms and spaces as I think it would help you a lot. The reason is that you seem to rely to much on gradients whereas in the real world using gradients on your objects is a bit of an oversimplification. I personaly think that a piece like this would benefit from some real world observation.

[Manta_Ray]

Blindleader, its a little difficult for people to respond here if only because your topic requires some knowledge of architecture's history to comment. I will comment and ask in regards to fluidity are you referring to the potential to move in and out of your abstract floorplan easily or are you referring to your technique? I think youre asking about the former...very hard to judge.

Does anyone know of an architectural forum blindleader could join up with?...anyone....anyone....Bueller.....Bueller... .

Manta