What I Do

[kcnightfang]

That's beautiful! I wish I could sketch that cleanly. I have to use a pencil to rough things out, and then ink them.

 

I might have to give some of the flimsy a try, I like the effect it has on the ink.

[ethernautrix]

*Ahem*

 

Waiting for more sketches.

 

 

Please.

 

 

 

 

 

 

:-)

[Pen Nut]

Everyone is dead talented on here :embarrassed_smile: . Thank God I get pleasure out of looking at my pens !

[pictogramax]

>> Drawing with a fountain pen is a joy for me. They make me want to draw even more than I do naturally. There is something about laying a bead of wet ink onto good paper that is like letting ideas flow out into the world. It's intoxicating.

 

I co-sign this wholeheartedly:-)

[EKE]

Cavey- What we call "Dutch" Architecture here in the USA is really "Dutch Colonial Revival" architecture. It's usually inspired by the houses of the early Dutch settlers in the northeastern US. I imagine it looks nothing like houses in the Netherlands.

 

Thanks for the kind words friends! Lisa, will post up some drawings soon. Completing some new work on the house I posted above. I'd love to share it with you.

 

Edited December 5, 2012 by EKE

[EKE]

That's beautiful! I wish I could sketch that cleanly. I have to use a pencil to rough things out, and then ink them.

 

I might have to give some of the flimsy a try, I like the effect it has on the ink.

 

Another nice thing about the flimsy is that it's very thin and transparent, so colored inks really show up beautifully on the paper. Hold the drawing up and the colors really pop out in a translucent way. Sepia-tone inks are especially lovely I think. I've been using the Iroshizuku Yama-guri and R&K Sepia lately to draw with, and the effect is really beautiful. Looks so vintage.

[Jerome Tarshis]

Let me add to the number of respondents who agree with EKE that he is lucky to be doing the jobs he is doing. If not lucky in the sense of being undeserving, let's say we approve of whatever it is about the laws of the universe that has brought him the clients he has.

 

I have spent a little time with architects. During the 1980s I interviewed one of the two principals of a firm notable for, ah, creative renovation of existing buildings. Repurposing, to use an icky word. I'd been assigned to write an article about all the repurposing going forward. The architect showed me pictures of one such building after another that he admired, done by other firms.

 

"But none of these are by your firm," I said. "What does your firm do?"

 

"Our firm does the buildings of today for the clients of today," he said, so eloquently that I've remembered that moment for almost thirty years. EKE has been more fortunate. I've tended to know architects who weren't. There are many of them.

[Sailor Kenshin]

VERY enjoyable. And thanks for posting thencolor studies... I love looking at translucent pen/ink/color work.

[EKE]

Thanks for the kind words, all of you.

 

Jerome, I am indeed lucky to have the kind of clients we have. In addition to the new work, we actually do a lot of renovation, remodeling, and "adaptive reuse". I don't view it as less attractive work, really. It can be very interesting and challenging. And often, it is the responsible thing to do. Good buildings that are loved by people should be cared for by the subsequent generations, and architects are among the shepherds.

Edited December 17, 2012 by EKE

[EKE]

I thought you all might enjoy seeing some new drawings I've just completed. It's another Spanish house. This is a couple of preliminary sketch studies in fountain pen. Lamy Safari, medium. Ink is Iroshizuku Yama-guri.

 

Front of the house:

 

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu188/ErikEvens/FrontSketch_zps9265603b.jpg

 

Side of the house. It has a subterranean garage:

 

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu188/ErikEvens/SideSketch_zps7e6b5d0c.jpg

 

And here is a soft pencil drawing of the front of the house, at a larger scale, done for presentation to the client. This is a raw scan of the original...we'll probably print this on nice paper and add some gentle, atmospheric coloring in Prismacolor pencil:

 

http://i646.photobucket.com/albums/uu188/ErikEvens/FrontElevation_zpscbcb8546.jpg

Edited January 3, 2013 by EKE

[ethernautrix]

I love these! I'm glad you posted more.

[pictogramax]

Agreed! Thanks!

[morbidsteve]

These are awesome, i want your job

[ehemem]

Ha! Keep your job! I want your talent and skill!

[amberleadavis]

Everyone is dead talented on here :embarrassed_smile: . Thank God I get pleasure out of looking at my pens !

 

+1

[beak]

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I could probably handle some technical drawing, but artistic drawing is beyond me. Perhaps this is for lack of training or just because I have a function focused engineer's brain.

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It's not beyond you!

I've taught scores of people to draw who thought they could not do it.

'I don't have that sort of brain / I don't have the gift...' are things people pick up from heaven knows where and eventually come to believe - both wrong in most cases. The way to get there is simply to start doing it; sounds like rubbish advice, maybe, but it's quite valid.

 

Training can help, as you mention, but application is the main thing. Good luck.

[beak]

Great thread and OP, by the way. Thanks for showing your work.

 

I guess the paper you mention would also be known as 'Detail' paper or light engineering trace? Use it a great deal myself, though only with pencil up to now - shall test with my pens!

Edited March 24, 2013 by beak

[penrivers]

Wow Eke, and you even get paid for that, beautiful, it remind me of sketches from masters of the renaisscence, some from Piranessi and some from recent (60 years old) magazines from Architectural Digest that I still conserve. Keep sending it.

[heymatthew]

Your work is incredibly inspiring. Thank you for sharing this with us. As someone who greatly admires architecture (I've done quite a bit of architectural photography), this is especially wonderful for me to see. I would love to see a portfolio of your work as I'm greatly interested in architecture (although I couldn't draw a house to save my life).

 

Happy Monday, and keep drawing.

[Runnin_Ute]

Beautiful work, Eke. There was a time when I considered going into your line of work. I think I was a teenager, also considered landscape architecture at one time or another. Ended up someplace completely different. (accounting)