Interior Design Drawing: Learn to Draw Like an Interior Designer

Does your student love finding new ways to express their creative side? Do they have a love of interior design or architecture? Each week, students will learn how to create new interior design drawings. We'll explore terminology and ways to bring onto paper the designs they imagine. Students will learn about and execute hand-drawn renderings, elevation, perspectives, detail drawings, furniture drawings, texture drawings and more. Students will discover how to use different mediums to render their designs each week. 

The class will be structured with a step-by-step approach, with freedom to add details and change elements, so that students are able to express their own personal design style in each drawing. I will share my screen and show the techniques involved in completing each drawing as students follow along, personalizing the drawing as much as they'd like! We'll have time for questions and students will be encouraged (but not required) to share their work and get feedback from other learners and the teacher. 

Some weeks we will complete one longer drawing and other weeks we will have time to create more than one drawing. My teaching style is relaxed and informal- I encourage discussions and getting to know one another as much as possible!

No prior knowledge or experience is needed. 

2022
Week of May 17:  Elevations and Tile Detail Drawing
Supplies needed: white paper, ruler, pencil and eraser, colored pencils
Optional supplies: graph paper

Week of May 24:  Bedroom Floor Plan Drawing and Furniture Symbols in Floor Plan View
Supplies needed: white paper or graph paper, ruler, pencil and eraser
Optional supplies: fine-tip black marker, colored pencils (These will be used for finishing details.)

Week of May 31:  Furniture Drawing; Colored Pencil Rendering Techniques 
Supplies needed:  white paper, pencil and eraser, colored pencils
Optional supplies: drawing pencils, fine-tip black pen or marker

Week of June 7:   Living Room Elevation; Window Treatments
Supplies needed: white paper or graph paper, pencil and eraser, ruler
Optional supplies: drawing pencils, fine-tip black pen or marker, colored pencils or marker (for students who would like to color in their drawing)

Week of June 14:   Bedroom Design Details; Bedroom Floor plan
Supplies needed:  white paper or graph paper, pencil and eraser, ruler
Optional supplies:  fine-tip black pen or marker, colored pencils or markers

Week of June 21:   Draw a Bedroom Using Two-Point Perspective
Supplies needed:  white paper, ruler, pencil and eraser
Optional supplies: drafting tape

Week of June 28:  Draw a Whole-House Floor Plan; Learning How to Render Flooring Types
Supplies needed:  white paper, ruler, fine-tip black marker or pen, colored pencils, markers
Optional supplies:  Graph paper

Week of July 5:    Draw Living Room Furniture in Floor Plan and Elevation View; Floor Plan Symbols
Supplies needed:  white paper, pencil and eraser, ruler
Optional supplies:  graph paper, fine-tip black marker or pen

Week of July 12:    Exterior Elevations: More Floor Plan Symbols
Supplies needed:   white paper, ruler, pencil and eraser
Optional supplies:  graph paper, fine-tip black marker or pen, colored pencils

Week of July 19:   Plan View of Entire Home Lot with Landscaping; Marker Coloring techniques
Supplies needed:   white paper, pencil and eraser, colored pencils, markers
Optional supplies:   fine-tip black marker 

Week of July 23:  Drawing Bathrooms in Plan View; Design Floor Plan Symbols for Bathrooms; Rendering with Colored Pencils
Supplies needed:   white paper, pencil and eraser, colored pencils
Optional: fine-tip black marker if students would like to trace the outline of their drawings