DIGITAL SKETCHING FOR ENGINEERS
FOR COMPANIES
(Online, in-person, or hybrid delivery)
3 x 2 hour sessions
UP TO 14 PEOPLE
Developed from extensive consultation with leading engineering offices, this course provides a comprehensive foundation in digital freehand sketching, for the increasing number of engineers who want to sketch in a digital workflow.
Designed for mixed experience groups, you will rapidly build competence with the essentials, then refine your skills with a set of worked examples that let you put your new skills set to use.
Working with an easy and intuitive drawing interface, attendees learn techniques to:
Sketch over imported 3d models including Revit, Rhino, BIM drawings and Google Earth images
Make quick, professional sketch-overs and annotation to communicate concepts
Create layouts of multiple sketches to communicate a process (e.g. construction sequence)
Use the speed of digital tools to create and edit drawings
Sketch live in online team meetings
Gain confidence using a tablet and stylus over a mouse
The course works well for intergenerational sketching, where tech- native young engineers (who may not have extensive sketching experience) and senior engineers / directors (who draw, but have limited access to digital sketching) draw together to exchange knowledge.
What equipment, and what software?
We found a lot of offices who are convinced by the competitive advantage they stand to gain, but stalling on investment in digital equipment, out of fear that they will buy the wrong thing, or that the training doesn’t exist, or that they buy the right equipment but there is not sufficient take-up to justify the substantial investment.
Click here to see the results of our digital device and software survey, and recommendations for the digital equipment you should consider investing in. Then get in touch if you want to hear how the course could work in your office.
“What fantastic sessions they were! We’ve been exploring how sketching with a stylus on tablet computers can combine the best of the digital and physical world. These help us sketch out ideas naturally in just the same way as before computers, but with a raft of powerful tools to do things that would be impossible on a piece of paper alone.”
Kelly Harrison Associate Director at Whitby Wood
“I’ve seen in my team a real leap forward in the digital sketches my engineers who attended have been producing (and they’ve mentioned how much quicker and more enjoyable the process is).”
Susan Mantle, Technical Director, Heyne Tillett Steel
Instructors
Trevor Flynn is the Director of Drawing At Work and founder of The Drawing Gym. A double recipient of the Teaching Innovations Award from UCL Engineering Dept, he designs and teaches courses at Dyson, Foster and Partners, The Design Museum London, UCL, Bath University and The Architectural Association.
Radu Axinte is an architect who has worked on some of the most iconic architecture projects in London. A highly skilled freehand artist and watercolourist, he combines a passion for sketching with an appetite for digital image-making. His work, transitioning our sketching programmes seamlessly to digital means, has helped instil superior skills in course attendees, and make light work of the technical side of things to deliver an enjoyable experience of screen-based sketching.
