Drawing Shortcuts

Beschreibung

The updated edition of a contemporary approach to mergingtraditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and3-dimensional digital visualization tools. Jim Leggitt?s Drawing Shortcuts shows how communicatingwith hand drawings combined with digital technology can beingeniously simple, and this new edition makes an already populartechnique even better. Completely expanded with new chapters and awealth of supporting images, this Second Edition presents practicaltechniques for improving drawing efficiency and effectiveness bycombining traditional hand drawing methods with the latest digitaltechnology, including 3-D modeling with SketchUp. This book?sstep-by-step approach will sharpen and streamline your techniqueswhether you draw for pleasure, school or your designprofession. * Easy-to-follow instructions cover every aspect from the basicsof drawing?such as composition, color, shading, hatching, andperspective?up to the most current technologies * Incorporates Google SketchUp, Google Earth, computer generatedrenderings, digital scanners and printers * Features new visuals from accomplished drawing experts * Special new ?Gallery? section highlights the creative processwith step-by-step examples of drawings * Complete coverage of the ?Overlay and Trace Method,? ?SimpleComposite Method,? ?Advanced Composite Method,? and ?Digital HybridDrawings? * New matrices show alternative drawing techniques for specificvisual effects such as Linework and Shading, Selecting the RightViews, Perspectives and Paraline Drawings, Drawing Detail, CameraLenses, and Drawing Tools Generously enriched with detailed process drawings, examples, andmore than 500 full-color images, Drawing Shortcuts, SecondEdition will have you creating top-quality drawings faster andmore effectively.

Autor*in

Jim Leggitt

Themen in »Drawing Shortcuts«

Architecture Architektur Design, Drawing & Presentation Entwurf, Zeichnung u. Präsentation

Stimmen zu »Drawing Shortcuts«

"Given the impact that technology has had to face with design, thesecond edition of this fascinating book focuses on theimplementation of the illustrations of the urban landscape all thewhile blending the traditional hand drawing with the morecontemporary digital techniques." (Tango Reporter, August2010) "Architect, Urban Planner, and professional illustrator JimLeggitt brings the information he teaches in his drawing workshopsto the pages of this colorful text. A second edition of a 2002book, this version has been revised to integrate "today'stechnology," specifically in the form of Google Sketchup,presenting a drawing approach that merges hand-drawing techniqueswith digital technology." (Landscape Architecture, July2010) "Drawing Shortcuts, Second Edition, is a timely referencetool at a time when technology - for all its advantages - hascontributed to an increased atrophy of freehand drawing skillsamong design students and professionals."(ChicagoArchitectureToday.com, June 2010) "Written for students and professionals in the building andlandscaping arts, Drawing Shortcuts has numerous tips thatwill help today's busy professional speed up the drawing processwithout sacrificing creativity. Author Jim Leggit's processescombine computer technology with the more emotion-based,traditional, hand techniques to produce work worthy forpresentations. Rather than take years to learn the shortcuts, thisbook allows readers to quickly stimulate spaces that tell a story."(San Francisco Book Review, March 28, 2010)
()

Details

Link teilen