A beginners guide to designing gardens and drawing plans

Name: A beginners guide to designing gardens and drawing plans
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Garden design and drawing garden plans & sketches

Created byJon Muller

Last updated 11/2017

English

What you'll learn

Understand design principles and draw concept plans, and do simple sketches

Course content

1 section • 8 lectures • 1h 27m total length

Introduction8:03
This lecture gives an overview of the course
Design principles8:01
This lecture describes the principles of design
Design materials8:03
In this lecture we look at what materials you need to draw garden design plans
Drawing up base plans to scale8:32
In this lecture we look at how you can draw up plans to scale from building or council plans
Drawing up user areas in your plan11:59
In this lecture we will look at the user areas and how to use them in your plan.
Adding landscape & plant symbols to your plan12:42
In this lecture we learn how to use landscape and plant symbols when drawing plans.
Colouring in your plan14:35
In this lecture we show how you can use colour to highlight your plan and easily see the different areas.
Drawing a simple sketch from a photo of your landscape15:36
In this lecture we show how you easily can draw a coloured sketch from a photo of a garden
User areas
Design principles

Requirements

Have basic drawing skills and interest in garden design

Description

This course is ideal if you want to learn how to create a well designed garden and show your friends or clients how it will look. At the end of this course you will be able to understand design principles and apply them to drawing up plans and sketches.

Learn how to design gardens and easily draw up plans and sketches

Learn about garden design principles

Learn about garden user areas

Find out how to draw base plans to scale from site information

Find out how to draw up plans with plant and construction symbols

Find out how to colour in plans easily

Learn how to do sketches from photos easily

Apply design principles to any garden that will work well and look good

This course can be used by beginners and can lead to work designing gardens.

It is unique as it shows quick easy ways of designing gardens with hand drawn plans.

Overview

This course offers you a easy, simple way to understand sound design principles as they apply to gardens. You will learn the design principles, and how to divide up your garden into user areas.

Once you have obtained the site information you can easily draw this up on a base plan. After obtaining the client wishes and working out the user areas, you can add in the gardens and construction areas using symbols. You can then colour in the plan and add wording.

You will also learn how to do a quick sketch from a photo to show your client how the garden could look in 3D.

Who this course is for:

Homeowners or aspiring garden designers