Housesketching: Learn To Create Energetic and Expressive Architectural Drawings

In this instructive book, artist Kiefer (Au Japon!), who shares his charming architectural sketches on social media, gives aspiring artists a look at his process and preferred materials. Inspired by in-person observations and internet-sourced photographs, he sketches houses and other structures using pens and alcohol ink markers, opting for fluid lines and creative exaggeration over precision and perfect details. Kiefer discusses core principles, such as composition, depth, and perspective, but is refreshingly nondogmatic about such rules, encouraging artists to embrace their unique drawing style and to use shapes and color to symbolize details. The book’s featured projects show sketches at various stages of the process, to illustrate, for instance, how layers of color create depth. The original reference photo and the brands and colors of markers that are used for each project are also included. A section on how color affects the mood of a sketch and a chapter featuring Kiefer’s advice on scanning, sharing, and monetizing artworks are particularly helpful.