HOW EYE TO HAND COORDINATION HELPS IN DRAWING

One must spend time practicing drawing what he sees on paper (eye-to-hand coordination training). The rules of drawing are, like the rules of grammar or numeracy, based upon a language we all share and understand. By combining elements of the ‘craft of drawing’ with ‘graphic rules’, you will quickly develop a technique suitable to your particular needs whether as a student of architecture, design or artist.

Drawing raises student’s awareness of design by cultivating careful, well directed skills of observation. The sketch is both a record and a statement of visual inquiry. The act of drawing from life, or a building, is to engage the artist in the subject in a unique and rewarding fashion. If the sketch is undertaken in the spirit of formal investigation then the results can be considerable in terms of the development of personal design skills.

The linear progression from sketchbook analysis to design proposal is one that many architects have experienced. The detailed study of a subject through the freehand drawing leads naturally to creative design by opening up different possibilities.

Analyzing existing buildings through the pages of the sketchbook provides a useful springboard for progressing into design. The precedents explored are of value in themselves, but, more importantly, the formal, spatial and decorative language employed in examples that have been sketched may prove applicable to the design of new buildings.