Hey you lot, second video of the day.
I didn’t manage to upload yesterday, it was my sisters birthday and I just never got
a chance, so here we are.
If you guys are familiar with my channel you might remember me mentioning before how much
I love drawing buildings so that’s the idea for today’s sketchbook page.
I normally will have a look on google maps, just drop the street view guy anywhere on
the planet and go for a little explore.
I have to warn you though, its a really easy way to waste a lot of time.
I’m a huge procrastinator and I can really end up wandering around google street view
for hours.
Some great places to go for buildings… for me, I like quite simple architecture with
a bit of character.
So south america is always quite a good one like in the smaller towns and outskirts, lot’s
of one or two storey houses, detached, breeze blocks painted in fun colours, houses with
flowers in window boxes.
I really like streets with loads of wires, phone lines and things coming and going in
all direction, it just adds a lot of character.
Japan is good for that.
Japanese architecture is great as well.
It’s funny cos I grew up in a victorian house, full of character, just so old and
lovely but my favourite kind of building is like what a lot of people would consider quite
boring, I love brutalism, which is… there was an era in architecture, post-war around
like the 1950s where they were building everything in concrete.
Those like really imposing, tower blocks or if you’ve ever been round the Southbank
centre in London… that kind of thing.
If you don’t know what I mean just google brutalism and I promise you’ll get what
I’m talking about, but yeah basically that’s the kind of thing I like, the angles and sharp
edges and straight lines, that’s what I love in drawing buildings.
I’ve said before I love drawing buildings cos you can’t really get it wrong and what
I mean by that is that you don’t have to get it down on paper exactly as it is, I was
making mistakes all the way through this drawing, missing out windows and making one bit too
big so another bit had to be much smaller, stuff like that, but as long as you’ve got
your straight lines and things going at the right angle to where it makes sense perspective-wise,
a building is always gonna look like a building.
And even when you do get it wrong, you’re just giving it a bit of extra character.
So right at the end actually I drew in this little box and the top corner of a building
in proper brutalist style.
So quick and basic and minimal but it still makes sense.
It does to me anyway.
Right, I hope you all enjoyed this video, thank you so much for watching.
I’ll see you all tomorrow.
Bye!