Blocking out the basic form of a building

Once you've got the basic plan in place, you can start to block out…components of your design.…What I'll do usually is estimate distances based on my concept art.…As an example, doors are a terrific way to measure and estimate distances.…I'll zoom in on the door on the cashier's area.…Doors typically, in most North American buildings at least, or one of two heights…unless they obviously look different or custom made.…Doors are 6'8" tall or 8 feet, and these are standards throughout the country.…

The way I can tell if a door is six foot eight or eight feet is where the handle is.…We can see that the handle and the small handle right here are just about midway…across the door, maybe a little bit below half of the knob.…What that means, being that the handle was about three feet off the floor, is this…door is six foot eight tall.…If the handle looks like it's at the lower third of the door, the door is eight feet tall.…So this door is six foot eight tall and about three feet wide.…If we call this six foot eight, or almost seven, reasonably, we're looking at…