Architectural Illustration:\u00a0 Drawing the Unbuilt World<\/p>\n
The great purpose of architectural illustration is to attempt to explain to the public that which does not yet exist.\u00a0 The architect has done his work, the plans are drawn to scale, the materials are chosen, all the details have been designed.\u00a0 However, the future building remains an enigma.\u00a0 What will it really look like after it is constructed?\u00a0 How tall will it be next to the other buildings we know?\u00a0 What about style–is it outrageous, or will it fit quietly into its context?\u00a0 All of these questions are answered by the architectural illustrator through\u00a0his renderings.\u00a0 The role of this artist is to take the plans and all supporting descriptive information about the architect’s design, and forge it into a\u00a0product that the public can understand.\u00a0 The illustrator must show the unbuilt and future design in a real-world context and \u00a0in a natural perspective, as if the viewer were able to see into the future.\u00a0<\/p>\n
To the experienced professional illustrator, there is no greater ill than deception.\u00a0 It is anathema to good work, and is to be avoided at all cost.\u00a0 Renderings are to be governed by the same rules that govern the buildings they represent.\u00a0 The sunlight on the materials, the placement of the trees and landscaping, the cars and people that surround–all of these are real concerns to be dealt with honestly by a professional illustrator.\u00a0 They cannot be ignored, avoided, or shown disingenuously.\u00a0 In fact it is a disservice to treat them so.\u00a0 Dealing with some of these concerns can be a challenge, but the challenge must always be met truthfully, and the solutions must be found using real-world logic and reason.<\/p>\n
To put it in layman’s terms, what good is a perspective rendering that shows the future building better than it will actually be?\u00a0 The whole purpose of the illustrator’s work is to communicate clearly and accurately the future building, as designed by the architect–to be true to the design.\u00a0 The illustrator’s work can be playful, suggestive, even flattering at times–in fact the best renderings always have these qualities.\u00a0 But a good artist’s rendering never abandons the true nature of its subject.\u00a0 It never exaggerates purely for dramatic effect, leaving the actual building to disappoint when construction is completed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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