If you are a high school student interested in architecture, learning to sketch can feel like one of the first real steps toward becoming an architect. You may look at expressive architectural drawings online and think that you need exceptional artistic talent before you can even begin. You may worry that your lines are too uncertain, your perspective is inaccurate or your people look strange. None of that should stop you. Architectural sketching is not about becoming a perfe

There is a moment in every creative process before logic takes control. It may appear as a sensation, an image, a movement, a strange attraction to a line, a sudden emotional response or a feeling that something wants to emerge before we can explain why. Most of us are trained to move quickly past this moment. We analyze, organize, correct and search for reasons. Intuitive sketching does the opposite. It stays with that first invisible impulse long enough to let it become vis