Posted in design principles, drawings, plan-vew drawing, stone on May 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
For those of you in the profession that’s all I would have to write:
It’s May
Is it ever, things are alway like this(thankfully) in the Northern climates this time of year. That great sense of “May” urgency. The average client procrastinates calling the contractor as do many, many others-everyone calls all at once. Screaming.
“Me, me, pick [...]
Posted in plan-vew drawing, steps, terrace, tagged deck, landing on May 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
OK listen up; it’s follow-up time. Remember way back when in the previous post we were talking about what type of landing I was thinking about for this particular project?
Well now we are getting down to the nitty-gritty. The real deal, it’s now for all the marbles. Now we got a deck, and some steps(in [...]
Posted in color rendering, drawings, landscape design, plan-vew drawing on June 6, 2007 | 1 Comment »
A few examples of different stages of doodling to quick sketches for a job. Keep practicing, and keep drawing to sharpen the hand/eye co-ordination. Also to pick up speed, speed comes from practice and confidence.
Speed comes from practice and confidence, the training leads you to trust your skills.
[Some quick line to get the hand moving]
[Something [...]
Posted in conceptual drawing, design principles, hardscape design, plan-vew drawing on May 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I have decided that yesterday’s addendum deserved a stand alone post. I have also added 4 links at the bottom that will send you to older post that also deal with this same subject matter.
Yesterday:
Addendum: Here again we are dealing with the steps in the design process. I can’t seem to get past [...]
Posted in plan-vew drawing, stuff on December 27, 2006 | No Comments »
posted, 11/25/06
Some old Doodle:
A interesting article from Southern California about ripping out the yard and filling it full of plants.
Katie Campbell has written a book called Icons of Twentieth-Century Landscape Design, here’s an excerpt:
In her book, Icons of Twentieth-Century Landscape Design, Campbell explores 29 sites, from Parc Guell, Gaudi’s Art Nouveau extravaganza in Barcelona, to [...]
Posted in color rendering, conceptual drawing, plan-vew drawing, waterfeatures on December 27, 2006 | 1 Comment »
posted, 11/00/06
This drawing goes with previous renderings.
Okay all the hemming and hawing about the fountain and where it goes, what goes with it, or not with it, etc . . . . well here it is.
This is a photo that was shot off the drawing board right after I had finished this drawing. In the [...]
Posted in color rendering, conceptual drawing, hardscape design, plan-vew drawing, presentation drawing, sectional drawings on December 27, 2006 | No Comments »
posted, 11/06/06
Single water falls, and tan sandstone walkways
More on the previous post. This was the 1st plan view color drawing that was shown to clients. Take notice that in this conceptual drawing there is only one waterfall, and the walkway is tan in color. the homeowners looked at this drawing and were very impressed.
I then [...]
Posted in color rendering, design principles, hardscape design, plan-vew drawing on December 27, 2006 | No Comments »
posted, 11/00/06
Color Landscape Rendering
(This drawing goes with last weeks photos)
This was the plan view drawing that was shown to the client. to help finalize how the design would work, and how we could make the patio space work with the new kitchen addition.
The hardscape is so overwhelming here it was really important to get it [...]
Posted in color rendering, conceptual drawing, design principles, hardscape design, plan-vew drawing on December 23, 2006 | No Comments »
posted, 10/17/06
Conceptual drawing for entryway
This drawing was to give the clients a look at a more formal entrway to their front door. Using a circular driveway paved with a common material, except for the area right in front of the entry into the house.
This area would be out of some sort of paver to [...]
Posted in conceptual drawing, plan-vew drawing on December 23, 2006 | 1 Comment »
posted, 09/29/06
The National Garden, plan view
This drawing shows the layout for the National Garden which is next to the United States
Botanical Garden in Washington D. C.
Posted in design principles, plan-vew drawing on December 22, 2006 | No Comments »
posted, 09/20/06
Residential Plan View
This is an example of a plan view drawing. Most in this industry call this the master plan drawing. The reasoning behind this, everything is on the plan. The hardscape layouts, fence lines, driveway, bed areas, and all plants are labeled.
Posted in color rendering, conceptual drawing, design principles, plan-vew drawing on December 22, 2006 | 1 Comment »
posted/09/08/06
Plan view of the Pond
This shows the lagoon-pond area in plan view. The backdrop of the conifers, and some of the surrounding plant material, including the aquatics that flow from the pond out on the edges of the banks of the pond.
The drawing also shows the relationship of this area to the actual entryway, and [...]
Posted in color rendering, conceptual drawing, plan-vew drawing, renderings on December 21, 2006 | No Comments »
posted; 07/25/06
This is a continuation on the previous post, so if you’re new to the party-start there. Above is my note page for this backyard, in the old days . . . before digital images, and before the Kodaks with the instant photo there would have been a lot more note taking, a lot more. [...]
Posted in conceptual drawing, design principles, plan-vew drawing on December 21, 2006 | No Comments »
posted; 07/17/06
More examples of how I look at graphics to think/create/decide visually. For you designers on the less-experienced side-do not be afraid to go through a lot of “trash” to get you to where your design needs to get to.
Overlay, on top of overlay, on top of overlay-work those lines. Work to create that magic. [...]
Posted in color rendering, design principles, plan-vew drawing on December 21, 2006 | No Comments »
posted; 07/12/06
This conceptual uses a design principle called “arc and tangent”. Where everything (most things) start out as rectangles and squares, and then are rounded off-connecting arcs/ I have been using a lot of this lately and there is a reason why.
Posted in color rendering, conceptual drawing, design principles, plan-vew drawing on December 20, 2006 | No Comments »
posted; 06/19/06
I usually do all my thinking on just black line drawings-usually just a Sharpie, red line pencil, or blue lead pencil. Those are my thinking tools. In this case I needed to throw in a little quick color and send this to the contractor of record.
So I opened up this rough plan view [...]
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