Buildings · 2 of 4 · 8 min
Cut the room
A section is where a sketch becomes a way of thinking about a building. Cut, then show what is beyond.
- 1
Ground line first
Heavier than anything else. The building sits on it. A section with a timid ground line looks like it is floating.
- 2
Poche the cut
Walls and floors the knife passes through are filled or hatched solid. Openings are interruptions in that fill, not extra lines.
- 3
Beyond is lighter
A door in the far wall, a person for scale, a window reveal. Those lines are thinner than the cut. Eye level is a tick at about 1.6 meters — useful, and usually left in.
Critique
Drill
Ground line heaviest. Fill whatever the cut passes through. Keep things beyond the cut lighter.