Book Description
This highly visual guide brings together the best of traditional and digital drawing techniques to help architects and designers generate sketches and presentation drawings quickly and effectively. It shows how to harness today’s digital power–using wire-frame perspectives, photographic underlays, digital cameras, copiers, and other computer tools–to speed up the drawing process and improve design communication. What’s more, it offers ample coverage of the basics such as composition, shading, and perspective, as well as step-by-step instructions for drawing people, trees, and cars. Full-color throughout, Drawing Shortcuts includes more than 300 illustrations and is filled with information to help readers make strategic decisions about drawing format, style, and more. --Ce texte fait référence à lédition Relié .
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Start creating top-quality drawings faster and more effectively–with Drawing Shortcuts. This book presents practical techniques and applications that will improve your drawing skills and help you produce more accurate sketches by incorporating traditional hand drawing methods with today’s technology. Easy-to-follow instructions cover every aspect from the basics of drawing–such as composition, color, shading, shadow, and perspective–up to the most current applications of cameras, copiers, and computers to create and reproduce your work.
This book’s step-by-step approach will sharpen and streamline your techniques whether you draw for pleasure or for your profession. Generously enriched with detailed process drawings, examples, and more than 300 full-color images, it features:
- Detailed outlines of drawing methods, from "storyboarding" to the "overlay and trace" method
- Timesaving, end-of-chapter "QuickTips" for easy reference
- Guidelines for building a portfolio
- Pointers on selecting materials and maximizing color potential
