{"id":811,"date":"2016-11-03T09:05:14","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/?p=811"},"modified":"2025-05-15T15:34:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-15T19:34:43","slug":"trentsketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mennosmartin.com\/blog\/trentsketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to School for Trent: Architectural Sketching 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Menno S. Martin we encourage all of our staff to keep learning and building their skills. Our renovation industry is always changing and evolving and it&#8217;s important to stay on top of what&#8217;s happening.<\/p>\n<p>This fall, I decided it was time for me to brush up on some skills too. I&#8217;m taking a sketching course and going back to the roots of how I started in my profession!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_818\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-818\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/trentsketches\/img_20161102_0841079-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-818\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-818 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20161102_0841079-1-e1478132828540-1024x688.jpg\" alt=\"sketch\" width=\"641\" height=\"431\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-818\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">old barrels in the original Seagram Warehouse<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><!--more-->29 years ago, when I first started working at Menno S. Martin, I used to draw everything by hand. I drew a rendering of St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral when I was in college, many years ago. It still hangs in my office today. But years of computer-based floor plans and architectural drawing has dulled my senses for pencil and paper drawing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-823\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/trentsketches\/img_20161103_0840071\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-823\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-823 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/IMG_20161103_0840071-e1478177291315-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ink drawing of St. Paul's Cathedral\" width=\"641\" height=\"855\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ink drawing of St. Paul&#8217;s Cathedral<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>So far, in my six-week course taught by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/brenda-murray\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brenda Murray<\/a>, I&#8217;ve relearned how to draw one-point, two point and three point perspective. More importantly, I&#8217;ve had to retrain my brain to see space differently. I spend all my time designing renovations &amp; editions based on what I see and imagine from my mind. I&#8217;ve discovered that I&#8217;m very good at making up my own perspective!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_817\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-817\" style=\"width: 641px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/trentsketches\/img_20161102_0840564\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-817\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-817 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/mennosmartin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_20161102_0840564-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"sketch\" width=\"641\" height=\"481\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-817\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brookfield Place, Toronto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sketching is helping me to focus on what I see in a building or interior space rather than what I think it will look like in a flat architectural drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Sketching is a little bit like slow motion photography. I&#8217;m capturing all the interesting angles, corners, soaring ceilings, symmetrical windows and crooked stairs. Unlike the time it takes to make a quick photograph, sketching gets me to slow down. It forces me to look and really SEE what I&#8217;m looking at.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m rediscovering a passion for drawing I had almost forgotten. While sketching, I can zone in on a particular part of a building and uniquely frame how I want to capture or draw it. As I get more practiced, I can add my own artistic flair to my sketches.<\/p>\n<p>Many of my clients find it very challenging to visualize what a flat plan drawing will look like in real 3-D life. When I draw simple sketches during a meeting it helps them to get a better sense of what a plan would look like as a space meant for living.<\/p>\n<p>Sketching every week has been a good reminder that learning (and re-learning) should always be fun!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be posting my sketching progress on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/renosbymenno\/\">Instagram<\/a> &#8211; follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/renosbymenno\/\">renosbymenno<\/a>&nbsp;to see how I progress. Or, if I make any progress at all!<\/p>\n<p>-Trent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Menno S. 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