Dead Leaf Drill

Staffage in Architectural Freehand Drawing

Erasmus drawing course at BUTE

Key-words: covering (hiding), diagonal method, linear web of basic lines, layer, local contrast, material rendering, phenomena of linear perspective, picture plane mosaic, reflected light, spatial planes, surrounding, street furniture, top light.

Memory pictures of the introductory lecture -  Details of black board’s notes:

Composition (focusing the center, balance between picture plane mosaics)

Covering or hiding perspective (third element of phenomena of linear perspective, after foreshortening and convergence)

Spatial planes (theatre’s scene – arrangement of the stage)

All the world is a stage!

How to draw trees – Scale theory – the Local Contrast

Scale giving elements (surrounding as scale)

Linear details, parts of staffage elements

Cast shadow, self shadow, reflected light (Basic elements of shadow setting on sphere and cylinder)

Relation between buiding and surrounding

Ingredients of Staffage (street furniture, figures, cars, plants, clouds, lamps, pylons, pillars, masts, etc.)

Material rendering (stone surface corner)

Material rendering (brick or tile surface corner)

Plant silhouettes with one line

 

Ad hoc exhibition of technical examples (Dry and wet techniques)

Dead Leaf Drill – Framing shape, follow-surface –layer of lines, top lights, the Local Contrast.