The Complete Garden Design Course – 2. Drawing Techniques

All the skills needed to explore designs and to illustrate finished garden plans in a clear, accurate and attractive way

Created by: Henry Mead
Garden and Landscape Designer

What Will I Learn?

• How to set up a drawing surface and the standard guidelines of hand drawing
• How to use the essential items of drawing equipment by following a number of exercises
• The techniques of drawing to scale and how to use a scale rule
• Sketching techniques that will help you develop design ideas and experiment with different garden layouts
• A range of symbols, line styles, patterns and lettering that are used to illustrate designs and to help you develop your own style of drawing and presentation
• How to bring together the full range of drawing techniques to create a presentation-standard drawing of a real-life garden design
• Ways to illustrate your designs in 3D
• Different ways of applying colour to a finished drawing

Requirements

• Some items of drawing equipment are required which are listed at the beginning of the course

Target audience

• This course has been written for anyone who wants to learn how to create presentation standard drawings that will communicate you designs in the clearest, most accurate and attractive way. You may be someone who wants to know how draw up and illustrate a design of your own garden, or someone who is interested in starting a career in garden design, or a student studying garden design or landscape architecture. Or you might be working as a garden contractor, a garden designer or a landscape architect. Or perhaps you are simply interested in learning some drawing and illustration techniques