The Business of Garden design: CAD - Procreate

Procreate is a simple, versatile design platform available on the iPad. It is very similar to Photoshop yet has the added benefit of drawing directly onto the screen itself making the felt experience of sketching far closer to the real thing.

· Introduction to various design techniques including both freehand and technical drawing.

· Demonstrations of rendering techniques, including watercolour and freehand rendering styles, which can be used to colour 2D plans.

· How to work with photographs and photo montage.

· Creating 2D botanically accurate .png files for use in other CAD programs.

· Building a botanically accurate plant library.

Your course leader

For several years now, John Wood has been a regular tutor at the Society of Garden Designers, training designers in a wide range of computer graphics and design programs: SketchUp, Procreate, Morpholio Trace, Layout and Twinmotion. He runs his own private client tuition business, delivering group and 1-2-1 training for garden designers all over the country.

As co-director of the Surrey based design and build company, Pure Form Garden Design, John has a wealth of hands-on construction and planting experience. There is, consequently, a direct correlation between his theoretical CAD teaching and his practical understanding of construction, with the real needs of a garden designer closely informing all his teaching.

Note: The course will be recorded, and all course participants will receive the full recording as a permanent learning resource.

FAQs

Software for your iPad on this course is either free or at minimal cost and you will be sent details when you enrol.

Entry to Kew Gardens is included. Refreshments through the day can be purchased from the Orangery restaurant that adjoins our training room.

You will be sent instructions in advance of the day with where to go to gain free entry to Kew Gardens and how to find our training room at The Orangery Conference Room to the side of the Orangery Restaurant. Kew Gardens’ gates open at 10am and we will start at 10.15am. We will finish by 4.30pm.

Please visit our main website for location details on how to get to Kew Gardens, public transport and parking options.

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