A colleague is working on what promises to be a USEFUL text on perspective drawing. He's solicited thoughts from a few other illustrators. One of his questions: what visuals are your clients asking for?
4 hours later, having reviewed more past work than anticipated, it seems some of the words belong on this blog:
Familiarity with free-hand perspective and figure drawing allows me to make fast, loose but accurate sketches. My clients sometimes achieve their goals by showing the preliminary sketches and there's no need to go to final. I may lose a bigger commission, but I have a returning client.
The high detail and defined edge cues from 3d software often lead the audience off-target. The psychological/emotional impact of that type of image gets in the way. For example, the goal of a presentation may be to vet a project that's schematic. Computer-generated images look anything but schematic! A hand-drawn sketch-over can stylistically dial back the perceived design process, encouraging participatory, not defensive, viewer feedback. The handmade sketch distills information in a uniquely human way. Whether informed by photograph, digital model, napkin sketch or client description, it creates a volumetric space whose attributes are shared with the viewer at the illustrator's discretion.
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