DRAWING AND PAINT

Architectural Sketching and Rendering

It's about architectural sketching.

Want to be the most secure buildings draw with a pencil or pen? How about refining your skills making plans that design? If you are an architect, designer, artist, or a student interested in architecture, this book full of sketches and a wide range of rendering techniques and styles, offers the complete intermediate level of education you need.

How to obtain effects with pencils and pens are covered in Part 1. The different types of media, including charcoal and ink brushes, are examined in detail, as well as various communications, advice and accessories you need. A series of exercises shows how to draw lines, shapes, textures and shades, and then combine them in fact. A special sequence is included on how to do perspective drawing freehand.

Techniques and examples of buildings catch, interior and urban landscapes of the area and are fully explored in Part 2. For example, the designs of these highly respected architects such as Henry Hobson Richardson, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, Raymond Hood, Julia Morgan, Eliel Saarinen, Mies van der Rohe, Robert Venturi, Michael Graves and are included in the section on buildings. Different types of home furniture are presented in interior section, with particular emphasis on the traditional response to a renewed interest today in historical styles. The network of interior spaces is the S. Maria Maggiore in Rome, at the chapel of Paul Rudolph for Tuskegee Institute. Drawing of trees (pine trees), water, sky, clouds, snow covered in the section on landscapes, and a sequence of special demonstration showing how to paint urban landscapes from photographs.

Three personal approaches are given an in-depth review in Part 3. Hugh Ferriss is known for the soaring skyscrapers he so dramatically rendered during the 20s when they were first being built. The process that the designer goes through in creating a finished project is shown in Norman Diekman's work, while the wit and whimsy of Paul Hogarth's caricatures show you how to make even tired wooden buildings sag with interest.

Profusely illustrated with 325 illustrations, Architectural Sketching and Rendering is required reading if you want to learn how to create your own successful drawings.

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