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[kn0pa]

OMG it's architecture!!! I feel silly for missing that but WOW that's a hell of a complex process. and that's *so many programs that's BANANAS*. Of COURSE I wanna know more yet, and for sure I would love to see that video but I know video making is harder than it looks so don't worry if its too much!! Thank you for such a detailed answer!! also that building is *so cool* and I don't even know half of what's happening in it it's *incredible*.

hey yea well you’re right making a video takes time but also drawing itself is very long and complex so. i have started making it, couple of things i wanted to do, and show how to do. but, first, i just show how i have fun in autocad :P

since i quite like lestallum i have chosen this particular favourite building of mine

i have taken several shots of its northern facade and used used automate -> photomerge tool in photoshop to make it into one image. i think this building is quite interesting and also would be fun to draw and render. i start with uploading this image to autocad as a reference and start drawing over it

i use thick yellow line as my base and then just assign the lines different colours later. here is a short gif drawing the window

once i finish drawing i assign every line its colour which becomes of different thickness later. but in this case i just draw a facade (not a section) so there’re no walls i’m cutting through, all lines are pretty much the same thickness.

close up

exported version looks like this. just lines…..

this is a very long and boring process though, drawing plans, sections, facades. it’s a job usually given to interns :D i did this quickly because i didn’t follow the exact measurements, if i had to do it irl i’d have to take a lot more pics of reference and measure all the widths, lenghts etc. and draw them very precise, that’s kind of the point. but, i was lazy also it doesn’t matter since i’m just showing an example. no one will know that i just traced over a photograph (i hope no one does it this way!!!! lol)

i’m thinking of drawing this building in 3d, i quite like it and it will be a good study anyway. this weekend, if i have time, i can draw a 3d model of it and then render it, maybe in photoshop, for the video. since vray render is kinda long&boring and not fun to look at :P 

p.s. i know i have listed a lot of programs, but not all of them are like, drawing software. usually i use autocad for technical drawings like plans&sections, photoshop for renders, illustrator is for vector graphics like graphs, diagrams, etc. and indesign is for making books, portfolios, presentations. sketchup and revit are 3d modelling programs. and vray is for render. 

[kn0pa]

Hey! your content is wonderful, and I was enjoying good screenshots of the boys when I read your tags on your plotlines and draft layer colours and I just have so much curiosity what do you mean by 'outer walls' and 'inner walls'? Infinite line and polyline? I swear I've been drawing digitally for years and I've heard none of these terms and please I wanna know M O R E.

hey! thank you for such kind words. i am very happy you are enjoying my content. i did not expect to be shown interest in myself, but i will explain my tags :D as i said, i don’t classify myself as a digital artist and i’m definitely not an “artist on tumblr” since i haven’t produced content for fandoms for some years now, but my lifestyle and my line of work revolves around drawing digitally. i am an architect, so i draw in autocad. this is how the workspace looks like

autocad is a software for producing very precise, technical drawings. the way it works, you draw your building/facade/detail/anything in vector (like in adobe illustrator) BUT in technical drawings line thickness and line type are of importance. so, there’s a thing called a plotstyle, where you assign every colour a different line thickness, so when you export the drawing (it will look b&w) the thickness of the lines will be different depending on the layer. for example, you can see on the pic above a screenshot from a drawing i did some years ago and dark purple represent the layer called “outer walls”, and it is assigned thickness of smth like 1.2 and sky blue are “inner walls” with thickness slightly less. this is a section drawing, btw, so it means the drawing is cut of a building. whereas purple and blue lines represent the walls i cut through, brown/orange lines are the things that i don’t cut, but see in the bg. here is what the exported version looks like, the one we give to construction workers or put in our presentations

here you can clearly see the difference in line thickness. that is plotstyle :D as of polyline/infinite line (or xline), they’re tools to draw, but i cannot explain the drawing process very well in words. if you are very interested, i can make a short video of my drawing process, i can draw something simple. but, this is just autocad. i also work with photoshop, illustrator, indesign, as well as 3d models and render, like sketchup + vray, and revit. of course, it depends on the project, but i don’t always draw buildings, sometimes it’s smth as big as a city planning project, and sometimes it’s as tiny as a wall detail (with every brick drawn and shaded) :D 

[ladyloveandjustice]

Harry Potter fanfic scandals? What's this?

Fortunately, I wrote an entire article that answers that question among others. 

(Though it only briefly mentions the Cassie Claire plagiarism stuff).

[snuffysbox]

@pinapin​ won 1st place in my giveaway and asked for their OCs Jacket and Rana !

Thanks again for participating, hope you like it <3

[elsalynn]

DANG NABBIT LITTLE SISTER. POST. POST LIKE YOU ARE MAILING THE PRINCE OF NIGERIA THE DEPOSIT HE NEEDS TO SEND YOU HIS DIAMONDS.

[elsalynn]

[askdoucheland]

After much consideration, crying, and endlessly asking companions for the final verdict, we've finally come to a decision!

Congratulations, pinapin! Winner of Ask Doucheland's Mitternacht Geisterschtunde Halloween Costume Contest!

Her entry of Erwin Smith from Shingeki no Kyojin won a striking fan favorite among my peers!