Landscape Graphics - LArch 247

TABLE OF CONTENTS


INTRODUCTION

1996 was the first year I taught the Landscape Graphics course. This is a techniques and craft course in which both manual and computer applications are emphasized. Landscape Graphics by Reed and Color Drawing by Doyle were the texts for the course.

The course begins with the simple and bold graphics required for schematic graphics. The students were given rough sketch of a schematic diagram and asked to improve the grahics by interperting the importance of the various elements and using bold graphic symbols and colors.

The next drawing, by Ryan Leigh, shows an example of black and white plan graphic technique. This assignment was preceeded by an exercise in which students devised and demonstrated plan view material symbols

Color theory is addressed through both lectures and a series of exercises. The following images illustrate student experiments in the application of color schemes and rendering techniques. The third drawing shows a technique where felt tip markers are applied to the back of a vellum sheet and colored pencil is applied to the front.

Sections and elevations for design illustration are introducted and linked to an exercise which utilizes these techniques to create a one point perspective. The first image below shows a section/elevation. The next illsutrates how this is transformed into a one point perspective.


D. Voigt

The students also use the computer to generate graphic products. They learn to use a graphic presentation program (Power Point) to create a portfolio of their work in the graphics course. They also use an image manipulation program (Photoshop) to finish a sequence of exercises which begin with drawing from nature and end with an abstract composition such as the one below. In the last few weeks of the course, I will concentrate on "tilt-up" perspectives, two point perspectives and the use of a three dimensional modeling program to generate wire frame perspectives. These will be used as the structure for perspective renderings.


J. Davis