Digital Sketching as a Graphic Language: A Powerful Communication Tool

Abstract

The basic of the graphical language are the illustrations which is followed from the ancient times like in prehistoric Mesopotamia and Egyptian civilization the drawing was carved on the wall and on clay tablet which may be used for circulating the use full information or for need of documentation. If we compare with past the techniques are less and so the graphics medium was also limited but today there are numerous and innovative ways to express through graphical language. The purpose of using illustration in architecture is to present the ideas and scheme for the first stroke and also make to understand the idea in a first glance. This practice can also help in other disciplines like onsite sketching, making caricatures and illustrations. The aim at writing this paper is to focus on the graphical language which is the key to the architecture profession the language of architecture is laying in between art, space relation and execution and so on.