Draw-It! Week 1 Take-Home

Drafted Plans


The first take-home exercise for this module was to draft (draw in detail) the plans for the Magney House.

As with my sketches, I began by lightly drawing in the outline of the house, and all the walls, but extended. Because this house is so long I decided to set my entire set of drawings at an angle. I felt that if one was to see the building parallel to the page, there would be too much emphasis on its length whereas I wanted to experiment to bring out its features more. The consideration of compositions was given to us as a task in class and so I decided to play around with hit. In taping the page to my table at an angle I was able to ensure the T-square always drew lines at the same angle.

The faint structure lines, and the plan to draft

I decided to compose my drawings around my floor plan, with the elevations spread around it so that a link can be seen between the two. This way I could also align all the elevations and thus it'll be more efficient to draw.

Plan with completed walls and main features.
This amount of information was present in my sketches

Initially all my drawings were done in H pencil, so that it was easier to erase any mistakes. As all the main parts were lightly drawn up (e.g. walls, fireplaces), I went over them in 2B, and pressing heavier to achieve a thicker line.
I decided to include the tiles in the plan to illustrate the connection between each room in having the same floor. If the floor had changed, it would define each room as separate to the other, and so I felt I had good reason to include it.

Completed north and east elevations, with the basic
outline for the southern elevation

I faced the same problem with my elevation as to how I would draw the shutters without them appearing opaque. I overcame this by drawing all my vertical lines thicker than the horizontal shutter lines (which I kept in H pencil), and drawing the poles themselves in 2B and slightly more thick than the vertical lines over the shutters. In addition, the shutters were drawn much closer than in my sketches and I believe this might've helped as well.

I was very pleased with my final composition of drawings. The detail was done enough (in my opinion), and the eye followed the drawings like an unfolded box rather than the way they were given to us in a vertical sequence.

Final drafted plans, 1:200