How do I draw futuristic buildings?

[GamerPrincessXI]

I need some help with that. As my first scene takes place in a bar. But i wanna show the exterior of it first...to you know set the scene. Mind you, I’m drawing on my sketchbook....lol

[abigaillmartin]

In my experience, just look at Pinterest and use organic shapes. Just use your imagination! Cause the future is a blank canvas in a sense. I hope this helps!

[GamerPrincessXI]

My imagination sucks, XD! Thanks for pin-interest!!!

[DokiDokiTsuna]

When people think 'futuristic', they usually think of weird, outlandish designs with lots of smooth surfaces and shiny textures...so really, anything that fits that description can look futuristic. Slap a 'sanitized white' color scheme on stuff from the 1950's, and it'll look like it's from the future...especially if you add some holograms and blinking lights.

Here's a few designs I saved for my own reference (from @tonytrujilloart on Twitter)

[prrrah0]

okay buddy, this is my first post in tapas, so bear with me.

The subject you brought to the plate is background and there are like three main points you have to figure out from the get go

1- Perspective: This is like super important especially for any man made enviroment, if you want to get like an awesome look study and practice a lot the 2 Vanishing points perspective, that one is easy to understand and often used when setting an scene, You can twist the angle up or down but the principles are always the same.

2-Composition: What do you wanna to be framed, and what do you want the eye of the reader draw focus to, This has a lot to do with lighting and setting up the scene, If you have like no idea, try to look For how some comic artist use Solid black to block an scene, study the lighting and framing on movies, a good book on the subject is "framed Ink" by Marcos Mateu-Mestre

3-Arquitecture: This may be the hardest part to pull off, cause to make it right you need the other two to be concrete solid!, For this you can simply study the work of artist that achieve the aesthetic you want to portray, but study means, to understand why their arquitectonical designs work, Syd Mead is a good reference to begin with, also a lot of futuristic designs take a lot from movements like Art Deco and Brutalism.

If this response was useful for anyone please reply with a PRRRRRRRRAH!!!

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[abigaillmartin]

Brilliant! I love the retro futurism design of the 50s!

[conventurecomics]

Javier Senosiain is a futuristic organic architecture, Frank Lloyd Wright his most famous house falling watter. For futuristic houses check out xanadu. For cartoonish buildings check out the Jetsons.

[GamerPrincessXI]

Thanks soooooo much. Thats super helpful.

[GamerPrincessXI]

I forgot about the jetsons....Jane the wife was my favorite character....I kinda wish Seth McFarlane rebotted that. One of the cutaways, Featured the theme song and Jane getting airdropped....it was dark to say the least.

[GamerPrincessXI]

Thank you for the advice, I will try it out. Its a lot of info but i think I can manage.

[GamerPrincessXI]

I tried 🤣 lol. Anyway, hope it looks nice.

[conventurecomics]

The Jetsons was one of my favorite cartoons as well transformers g1, classic thundercats, voltron. They all had some interesting building desings, such as the cats lair from thundercats. And Cybertron a cybernized planet from the transformers.

[GamerPrincessXI]

Ahhh, cool. Never heard of cybertron....I'm a 90s kids...I do wish Mega XLR got a rebooted as well. Im still mad over Final Space getting dropped by every streaming service.

[miniscule]

Look at Zaha Hadid buildings if the sci-fi sort of futuristic is what you're going for.

[Ordinaryaverageguy]

I think it sorta depends on what kind of future your story is set in. If it's an optimistic, Star Trek sort of world the buildings might be very different from a dystopian world where architecture might tend to squat, dark & totally utilitarian structures.

[Calculus_Homework]

Heya! It depends on the type of future you're looking into describing with the architecture.
However, I have some types of architecture or certain terms to google that you can look at for great references and influences here:

• Brutalism -- comes from the phrase "beton brut" in French which means raw concrete. It focuses on expressing the materials and structural integrity over design.

• Conceptual model architecture -- these are just concepts, but are expressing some really unique ideas! Most of them are highly modern, some minimalistic, a lot involve nature, and some can be very intricate in structural design.

• ETHNOS -- an architectural firm based in Japan. They've created incredible structures in Shibuya that you should really check out.

• White Pearl Villa in Abu Dhabi by Omar Hakim (this could help push you down a rabbit hole looking at some inventive exteriors and interiors)

• Tinyhomes -- there's an instagram that curates places called "tiny homes." It's a practice in creating a living space with all necessities, but under a certain amount of square feet. Cool idea, and a lot of them are made out of old shipping crates.

• Bar Orian Architects -- their stuff isn't TOO futuristic at first glance, but they dabble with some interesting compositional placements of forms that play with space.

• Adobe brick buildings -- There is a lot to learn from the past craft-wise. Even today, adobe brick is still used for homes. Come up with some ideas for the materials your future place uses and how/why they use them for their buildings. Also, adobe structures are really cool! The windows and doorways can have some unique shapes, as well as the interiors that serve great purpose for daily life.

The best way to find more is through Pinterest, as somebody else had mentioned. Fall down a rabbit hole. Create a mood board too! And that means not just including buildings but also: colors, shapes, plants, and other things you like that will help you create something totally unique after studying a few types of architecture.

I hope that helped somewhat!

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