Designer verses Artist’s Drawing

Designer verses Artist’s Drawing

There are two kinds of drawings that we do daily as designers:
Designer’s drawing (right by Brian Lin): A drawing that shows a design process, so it doesn’t need to be perfect as long as it conveys and communicates ideas to the clients. Therefore you now have a license to explore ideas, without penalty.

Artist’s drawing (Left by Richard Sneary): A drawing that shows the concept as a product and is mostly executed by an architecture illustrator. It needs to be nearly perfect with the goal of showing what it will be look like once it is built.

You may ask yourselves why do some design schools encourage and even require that students draw an artist’s drawing when we really should be spending more effort on process drawings? Remember, it is only a piece of paper that you are ruining and not your life. So just do it to make mistakes to learn.