A 44-lesson studio course · students & practising designers
Architectural & Interior Drawing Fundamentals
A universal language with regional dialects. Learn the grammar once; draw anywhere.
A free, 44-lesson studio course that teaches the universal grammar of architectural and interior drawing — plan, section, elevation, line, scale, the human body, projection, conventions, perspective, rendering and the sketch-to-sheet workflow — hand and digital in parallel, metric and imperial together, grounded in Indian practice and compared across world standards. Ends with a capstone and portfolio.
“A drawing is an argument about space, not a picture of it.”
The syllabus
Ten modules — from why we draw, through line, scale, the body and projection, to rendering, the full workflow, and a capstone. The complete 188-term Drawing Atlas is already live.
Framing — Why We Draw
The one idea that makes every convention make sense — a drawing is an argument about space — plus the two hands (pencil and cursor) and one language with many regional dialects.
The Language of Line
The alphabet of drawing: lineweight hierarchy, line types, and how a single sheet speaks through the weight of its marks.
Scale
Scale as a ratio, the scales you actually draw at, and reading a scale rule — metric and imperial side by side.
The Body
Anthropometrics and clearances: the human body as the source of every dimension on the sheet.
Orthographic Projection
How plan, section and elevation lock together into one coordinated description of a building.
Drafting Conventions
Dimensioning, symbols, hatches, titleblocks and the codes that shape a drawing — compared across NBC, IBC/ADA and Eurocode.
Pictorial Drawing
Axonometric and perspective: drawing depth, with a draggable vanishing point.
Rendering & Representation
Shade, shadow, material and atmosphere — making a drawing read as built space, and where AI render belongs (mood, never measure).
From Sketch to Sheet
The end-to-end workflow on one real case — a Hubballi 2BHK — from first sketch to a coordinated drawing set.
Capstone & Portfolio
Do the work (a grounded capstone) and show the work (a portfolio that argues). The course completes here.
All 44 lessons across 10 modules are live — from why we draw to a finished capstone & portfolio, each with interactives, a mastery check and the complete 188-term Drawing Atlas linking every term to the lesson that teaches it.