Plan Rendering in Concepts App for iPad

This was a fun one where we went over some sketchup linework, some conceptual sketches, and meshed it all together for a final concept presentation graphic. This was drawn on a 2019 iPad Pro in Concepts App.

[@evansommerville3403]

Awesome work! This a dying art from within landscape architecture a whole. If more students and architects resorted to hand drawn conceptual work like this we would be moving toward a more creative and expressive future. Having been in the profession for 30 years there's a stronger connection to creativity when you co ordinate thought with hand-eye co ordination of hand sketching rather than the cut copy paste and concept development in a CAD platform. I've seen creativity levels drop significantly over the years as hand sketching fades into the background.

[@landshaperstudio]

Luckily almost all of my professors pursued some sort of traditional art on the side and so were big on traditional methods and being able to express our ideas quickly and effectively. LA, from what I see, has grown into something much more broad than it was in the past. For better or worst, is everyone's personal opinion, but the industry has grown to wear multiple hats. And many of those hats aren't very "design" oriented in the way of art but more purely function. As LA's grab more at civil engineering type projects and planning, I see alot more info-based / use-model design happening in the commercial spaces and the only ones that seem to be truly artful are the big competition based firms. I know thats painting with a broad and probably unfair brush, but that's just what I've seen. Seems less about hey, how can we collaborate with other professions and make what they need into an artful marriage of form and function...and more about: Grading? Planning? Survey? Structural? Yeh we can do that too. Lol. I think what we are seeing more is a shift in the profession as a whole and less about the graphics. Heck, the graphics alone now are pretty much it's own profession. Atleast that's what my company does :)

[@ExultantTJ]

This is wonderful! I use concepts app myself all the time, but I am nowhere near as good as you. Your work style is amazing.

[@landshaperstudio]

Thanks! We all have different styles and I'm sure you're is unique and great on its own! Would love to see it. I know for myself, it took me years to build up my confidence on pen and paper. What I do in the app is just transfer that same method over.

[@Greenhavendesignsllc22]

Well done mate!! What was your total time on that plan? I need to fly out to your studio and learn from the master. Always a good time watching you work! Keep up the great work!

[@landshaperstudio]

Thanks! So previous to this we presented two black and white concepts. This was the revised so a decent amount of linework was already there. But time between all three concepts (2 original, 1 revised) was about 5-6 hours. With about 4 of that being actual drawing time.