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need an advice - sketch or academic drawing?
Hello everybody!
Need a bit of your advice!
I am going to apply for M.Arch after getting a B.A. in totally different field and am working on portfolio now. I have some works in sculpture, some photos and a couple of short stories. So I'm thinking that I need some representation of graphic skills in portfolio and since I've never studied any kind of drawing in my life I decided I need to take some drawing classes. I talked to my local art academy and it turns out I have two choices - academic drawing and sketch drawing (but cannot take them at the same time).
So my question is - which course will be better for portfolio?
I heard that sketching skills will help a lot during Arch school but I'm starting to think - wouldn't it be better to get the academic basics first.
Any opinion/info will be appreciated. Thanks for your responses!
Go with sketching. Sketching skills will not just "help a lot during Arch school" ... they are essential. If by "academic drawing" you mean drafting, then you should avoid that class. Learning to sketch will help you develop the basic visual skills that are essential to design, whereas the drafting class will teach you a limited set of outdated technical skills that you may or may not even need to use in school, let alone in practice.
Thanx nonneutral,
BTW by academic drawing I didn't mean technical drafting I meant something like classical drawing techniques with assignments like: a still life with simple white objects and drapery, architectural reliefs,
a human skull.
Anyway thanx for your advice.
sketching is more useful as tool than making refined images.
this is my own fetish, but i always think whatever images you want to show show you will get best reaction if they are couched in a narrative of some sort.
by that i mean the sketches or the academic images, either one, will give best bang for buck if they are used as tools (in a logical way) for some kind of idea or ambition you have of your own. I have come to dislike looking at portfolios with projects that are assignments. they tell me only what your teacher had in mind and not what you think....
if you buy that point of view then both ways of drawing are fine because they are not the point you will be selling - they are literally just the things you pick up on your trip from a to b. in which case the advice is take whichever interests you most and then use what you learn to do something cool.
Thanx a lot Jump - that's very helpful!
I've read on one of the threads here that you graduated from Calgary (or Manitoba now that I think about I don't remember exactly). Anyway I am applying to both. Do you happen to know any specific portfolio requirements for these schools?
Thanx again
After Jump's comments I'm leaning towards sketching but if anyone else has got an opinion on this matter, feel free to express it.
I need to make a decision by the end of this week. Need your help!!!
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