Observation drawing - Work in the architectural expression workshop.

Last semester I had the opportunity to study the subject "Workshop of Architectural Expression". It is a chair in which the student works expression as part of the design in Architecture, its different techniques, procedures and methods.

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Observation Drawing

One of the deliveries, this is the work assigned to the students, was the "Drawing observational. "It consisted in capturing in a drawing a series of sculptures, previously assigned, located in the University City.

In this activity the evaluation, perspective, proportion, geometry, shadows and the use of color in some drawings were evaluated.

The student must master these techniques and apply them in each exercise. Before assigning this activity, we performed a series of exercises in the classroom where we studied the geometry of an object and its relationship with the environment, guidelines, own shadows and cast shadows, shape of the outline, among other aspects that should be taken into consideration when drawing an observation drawing by freehand.

The difference between capturing an observation drawing and a drawing of the imagination is that, in the observation drawing, one has to have criteria of the object to be drawn, whereas in the imagination drawing, we are simply drawing by intuition . The criteria of the observation drawing are the proposition, the position in the space and the geometry, on the other hand the drawing of imagination is where we are the ones that determine the dimensions, proportions, geometry, features and shadows.

The sculptures that we were assigned to draw were the following