I am switching careers and would like to pursue interior design. Since i do not have a lot of drawing skills, would it be beneficial to take an intro to drawing class? Also, for interior designers, what types of work are in your porftolio? Photos of rooms you have designed or drawings of room plans?
2007-08-10 08:50:11 · 4 answers · asked by Reilly 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Other - Visual Arts
If you have a talent for design, it can be in your mind and what you put on the walls. You can plan by doing basic designs but using scraps of inspiration from magazines and other designs and make a collage to show what you like. It would probably help to add in your portfolio a couple of designs that you have completed and photos to show what you are capable of. As for the drawing class, if you think it would help you to improve and get your idea's on to paper then go for it - what do you have to lose? Good luck i'm sure you will be great.
2007-08-10 09:01:22 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Like the first answerer said, there are many, many programs out there to do all the 'block' work.
However, you may want to accquire skills in drawing and drafting. Room dementions are vital to 'creating' a design. Being an interior designer is heck of more demanding than copying the latest trends and styles. Inventing a new design is really what you get paid for. In order to do that, you have to manifest it on paper, as many computer programs are something of a pre-fab nature. That is to say, there are only so many styles of couches, or pictures or tables in the program. This is only to get a rough idea of how things will fit in the room and how the arrangment looks roughly. Programs do not really create a "look".
Still, taking a course will help you accquire the skills you need and hone the abilities and passions you have.
2007-08-10 09:06:28 · answer #2 · answered by Xanadu 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No you don't. There are CAD programs that can do all of that for you (Computer assisted design). Go for what you want to do, but please realize, the market for interior designers is VERY difficult and it may be extremely tough to make a living at it.
2007-08-10 08:58:18 · answer #3 · answered by John B 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no you don't have to know how to draw squat, that is why interior designers hire artists like me...so you can better do your job and allow me to make you shine.
2007-08-10 13:17:14 · answer #4 · answered by captsnuf 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋