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September 20, 2015 4:15 PM   Subscribe

 
This is interesting, and I like the soothing voice, but I can't get over how high up they hold their pencil. Is this the way most people do it? I am going to do a bit of office spying to see, because in my experience people hold the pencil down close to the point. No?
posted by Literaryhero at 5:28 PM on September 20, 2015 [1 favorite]


When drawing it's better to hold much farther back. Writing grip is undesirable for most types of drawing.
posted by overeducated_alligator at 5:55 PM on September 20, 2015 [4 favorites]


Yeah, absolutely. I'm a godawful drawrer but that was the single most transformative piece of advice I ever got- you can make much quicker, smoother strokes if you hold your pencil high up like a paintbrush.
posted by Merzbau at 6:52 PM on September 20, 2015 [5 favorites]


Well that is something I wish anyone had mentioned to me in all those drawing classes I took. I'll have to try it!
posted by rifflesby at 7:05 PM on September 20, 2015 [3 favorites]


yeah, thanks for the tip. Maybe that explains why my drawing pens are so abomidably long?

I've been theoretically following this tutorial set on reddit
posted by rebent at 7:58 PM on September 20, 2015 [3 favorites]


Unfortunately, architectural rendering is a dying art. There are a few specialists that we work with in our firm, and our older design architects still sketch by hand, but most renderings are done electronically these days. The same goes for hand lettering. It used to be a skill that every architect was expected to know, but in the last 10 years I have seen kids come out of college that don't know the basics. In general their handwriting is terrible. Another skillset lost to the age of software**.

** Not that I am complaining per se'. Hand lettering took forever and clients do not want to pay for penmanship.
posted by Benway at 6:46 AM on September 21, 2015


Thanks!
posted by OmieWise at 9:36 AM on September 21, 2015 [1 favorite]


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