Freehand Sketching for Garden Designers: An iPad based course in digital drawing techniques
Freehand Sketching for Garden Designers: An iPad based course in digital drawing techniques with John Wood
Provender Nurseries - 10th May (9:30 am – 4 pm)
The Landscape Centre, Leydenhatch Lane Swanley, Kent BR8 7PS
In a world ever more dominated by AI and the hyper-realism achievable in so many computer programs, sketching and hand rendering is coming back into its own.
We, as garden designers, need a unique identity and the ability to hand render and sketch is becoming ever more valuable. Sketching allows us to communicate ideas quickly and easily as has always been the case, however, with the advent of iPad technology, it is now so much easier to achieve drawings of real quality for presentations at a professional level. The beauty of using an iPad as opposed to a conventional pen and paper is that there are numerous techniques that make sketching and hand rendering so very much easier, and it’s these techniques that John Wood will be focusing on during this one day of intensive training for garden designers.
What will be taught on this course?
The two programs used will be Procreate for iPad and Morpholio Trace. No prior knowledge of these programs is necessary for those who wish to attend the course. A very significant advantage of Procreate and Morpholio over other more data driven CAD software is their remarkable affordability combined with astonishing digital power, enabling us to draw in a way that is quite literally indistinguishable from the real thing. Techniques will be demonstrated using both these programs. The good news is that the interface for both Procreate and Morpholio are extremely similar, so are easy to learn together, but when used in conjunction allow us to draw in a far greater range of styles. On the iPad, one is always drawing with a pencil in one’s hand (albeit digital) and yet there is so much background support from the software itself that one doesn’t necessarily need to be good at drawing to produce work of a high quality. This course is also ideal for those who are perhaps somewhat technology or computer shy, and yet need, in their own design practice, to have a far smoother workflow and for those who seek more efficient ways of producing work to schedule free from the often slow and cumbersome nature of traditional analogue drawing. On this course John will demonstrate how to build permanent libraries in a range of graphic styles including pencil, crayon, watercolour and pen and ink, that can be used throughout all future work. John will show how these techniques can also be applied to the production of master plans, thus avoiding the need to rely too heavily on other more technical CAD programs.
Ironically, these techniques are all traditional and have been around for centuries. It’s as if with the iPad, computer technology has come full circle. This course is designed to equip students with a range of skills that will enable a broad range of hand rendering techniques, allowing each individual to create a truly personal and bespoke design style in their presentation drawings.
Date, time and venue
Provender Nurseries - 10th May (9:30 am – 4 pm)
The Landscape Centre, Leydenhatch Lane Swanley, Kent BR8 7PS
Booking
To book your place on this course, please send an email over to Claire Denham via johnwoodtuition@gmail.com.
Cost is £240 and attendees will receive a full recording of the day.
