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iPad Drawing for Architects and Designers

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Learn about 3 iPad drawing apps you can use in your daily professional lives: Morpholio Trace, Procreate, and Sketchup for iPad

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What you can learn.

Understand the basics of each app and which one is right for you
Level up your hand sketching using the Apple Pencil combined with each app's digital brushes, layers, and Photoshop-like tools
Level up your ability to scale and dimension your sketches prior to 3D modeling
Learn tips and techniques for making quick, persuasive hand-renderings

About this course:

The power of iPad apps for designers is that they combine the directness of drawing with a pencil with the modern image editing capabilities of Photoshop, allowing you to do more than hand-drawing or Photoshop can do alone. In this hands-on course, we’ll briefly touch on three apps—Morpholio Trace, Procreate and Sketchup for iPad—then focus on the special powers of Procreate and Sketchup for iPad. The class will be divided into two sections: 1) an overview of the modern image editing tools in all the apps, and 2) a deep dive on 2D and 3D rendering techniques unique to the iPad. Assignments will build skills in the context of real-world design challenges.