Top 11 struggles in interior sketching beginners usually have 

Here are the most common struggles I’ve noticed throughout my teaching practice:

+ Perspective basics is definitely high on your "struggles list”, perspective drawing seems to look very complicated

+ You are totally new to sketching and need to learn about it to be comfortable where to begin with; you really just need some helping hand

+ Your biggest issue is the proportion of the furniture to the size of the room

+ Just getting started and know what to draw when you finally sit to draw

+ Scared of hand rendering textures and reflective surfaces, like glass, mirror, metal, etc.

+ Not sure if you are using the right materials for sketching

+ Struggle mostly with shading, highlights, and cast shadows in particular

+ Wish you are being able to use the right materials to highlight the differences in tonal variation

+ Feel very rigid while sketching structure and resistance while approaching 2-point perspective, despite practicing and following along the lessons


Maybe you are more experienced and have made rendered drawings you are proud of, but they were very time-consuming, so:

+ Getting in the habit of sketching project ideas quickly is your biggest weakness, and you feel the need to jump to Revit/AutoCAD/3DSMAX to get yourself started on ideating a plan, and you wish you could just grab a sketchbook to do the same (probably you even think it is a purely psychological issue :-)

+ Biggest issue is that you don’t know how to put multiple drawings on an A4/A3 page to present an idea. When using markers, it can be hard to plan out where everything will go and how the overall look of the page/s might be. Single drawings are easier, but when combining floor plans and a 2-point perspective interior and exterior plus a 1-point interior on the same page, you want to make it all look aesthetically similar

Let me know if you resonate with any of these or have your own struggles in the comments below this video on my YouTube, please.


Resources:

Check my free perspective course  and blog articles archive, it can really help.

 

© Olga Sorokina


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