Sketchy Saturday l 012

We return this Saturday with our favourite selection of your best sketchy works! We’ve had a while to consider this Top 10, so expect only the best. Meanwhile, you can browse through all of our readers submitted works here. No. 10 by Yi dae-young, Studio L, Landscape Design & Garden Construction

‘This sketch was an impression of a proposed public garden in South Korea’s suburban area. It was designed in a way which should not disobey the existing nature, but be at harmony with its surroundings. The sketch shows the open lawn that sits between the magnificent trees. It is drawn in color pencil on 75g white paper.’ No. 9 by Miguel Lievano ‘This sketch represents a streetscape test drawing. The location is nowhere in particular, but can be applied to a small English town, architecturally. I was just playing with scale and proportion, especially with the rows of houses and adjacent trees. The materials seem to be diverse. The landscape is quite typical but it’s a great base for more daring concepts. I made use of massing and transparency in the sketch style. The medium used was pen on paper.’ No. 8 by Isa Eren Akbiyik, Landscape Architect, Nota Design Landscape Architecture Office Owner ‘This is a concept sketch for the five star Nirvana Hotels in Beldibi, Antalya, Turkey. It represents the Main Gate Concept for the building. I made the sketch into a 2 point perspective with 0.3 – 0.5 drawing pen on  A3  paper.’ No. 7 by Juan Gabriel Rosillo Hernandez, Masters Student at the Robert Reich School of Landscape Architecture in Louisiana State University, USA ‘This sketch arose from a studio project designed to expose and enrich the Mardi Gras Indian culture through street design in New Orleans. The illustration consists of lines made with gray and black fine liner pens, colored with Chartpak markers, the shadows made with gray brush pens, and overlayed with colored pencils on white tracing paper. This sketch was done in 15 to 20 minutes as a schematic visualization.’ No. 6 by Tueilon de Oliveira, Architect and Arbanist in private practice, Brazil ‘This is a sketch of the House of The City, located in the city of Tubarão, Brazil. The sketch was drawn with the intention of representing the historic architecture of  southern Brazil. I drew it in nanquim and painted with colored pencils. After that, the sketch was digitized, vectorized and edited with the aid of drawing software, improving the colors, lines and the general traces of the sketch.’ No. 5 by Ngoc Xuan Doan, MLA at University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA ‘This is a quick watercolor sketch illustrating the fall season of a community green space for Fieldstone Farm Village, a graduate studio design project in Princeton, Massachusetts. The green space is framed by local architecture, gravel walkways, and native vegetation. This was a housing studio project with a focus on designing for a historic dairy farm and local landmark inspired by the beautiful New England landscape.’ No. 4 by Nayeem Asif, Architect, Bangladesh ‘This sketch was made during my final semester. I was designing an institution for challenged children and I needed an idea for an informal outdoor learning space for the kids. I was inspired by the traditional community gathering spaces of my country.The challenge was to create a sense of place in an urban context and the sketch represents my preliminary idea.’ No. 3 by Claudia Caruso, Architect/ Construction Engineer, Italy ‘This sketch represents an ancient alley that crosses the historic center of Adrano, a small town in Sicily. It is very typical of the city developed at the foot of volcano Etna. I made it because I really love the picturesque charm that these street retain, made of narrow passages, small balconies and iron street lamps. The technique used is watercolor on plain paper.’ No. 2 by Maria Rochowiak, Landscape Architecture,Agricultural University of Kraków ‘I have loved painting and drawing since I was little child. The art and natural landscape of my country are the most inspiring things for me. I have gone to extra art classes for seven years. This sketch was made in 2008. It shows a dark autumn landscape at night in a park. I was inspired by a poem by Jan Twardowski (famous Polish poet) and the old park in Kraków. This sketch is made using a scraping technique. I used crayons and black drawing ink. Firstly, I colored the entire sheet of paper with crayons and then I covered the layer of ink evenly with crayons.’ No. 1 by Chhavi Bhatnagar, Amity University, Uttar Pradesh, India ‘I made this sketch to enter into a competition. The sketch is rendered by Rotringpens and ink on a gateway sheet. The basic style used is stippling with dots and I used a few zigzag patterns for the grass and leaves. The depicted location is part of a historical site called Bijaymandal, Malviyanagar in Delhi, India. The material used for the sketch was black ink and Rotring pen on paper.’ This concludes our 12^th edition of Sketchy Saturday! We hope you enjoyed it and made you motivated enough to send your own work to perhaps be featured in our next Top 10. Tell us which is your favourite sketch by commenting below and don’t forget to join us next time for another selection of great landscape art and sketching! Article written by Oana Anghelache.

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