Book description
This book focuses on the exciting possibilities for representing the built environment with all the techniques - both ancient and modern - that are now available. It teaches students the following skills: how to draw using a range of media, the basic rules of making effective spatial images, how to read a drawing, and how to express ideas through appropriate media and forms of communication.
Following a brief introduction, the book is divided into three sections: Media, Types and Places. Each section is illustrated with exemplary drawings and accompanying commentaries. Step-by-step sequences and practical tips will further help students to make the most of their newly acquired skills. This book is an indispensable practical and inspirational resource in architectural schools and practices alike.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Copyright
- Title Page
- Contents
- Introduction
- About this book
-
Media
- Introduction
- Line
-
Render
- Case studies
- Step by step: Colored pencil
- Step by step: Charcoal
- Step by step: Watercolor interior sketch
- Step by step: Photoshop—Finishing a computer-generated image (CGI)
- Step by step: Photoshop—Creating shadows for people
- Step by step: Photoshop—Color-correcting a photograph
- Step by step: Autodesk
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Mixed Media
- Case studies
- Step by step: Monoprinting
- Step by step: Lino-cut
- Step by step: Press print
- Step by step: Screen-printing with paper stencils
- Step by step: Photographic screen-printing with acetate sheets
- Step by step: Photographic screen-printing with Mylar drafting film
- Step by step: Model/computer collage
- Step by step: Painting/pastel/model
-
Types
- Introduction
- Sketches
- Plans
- Sections and elevations
- Axonometric and isometric projections
-
Perspectives
- Case studies
- Step by step: Drawing a one-point perspective
- Step by step: Drawing a two-point perspective
- Step by step: Making rapid perspective sketches by hand
- Step by step: Correcting perspective distortion
- Step by step: Creating a lathe model
- Step by step: Creating a loft model
- Step by step: Polygon model editing
- Step by step: Solid model editing
- Step by step: Creating a spline surface model
- Scripted drawings
- Places
- Glossary
- A note on scales
- Further reading
- Index
- Picture credits
- Author’s acknowledgments
Product information
- Title: Architectural Drawing
- Author(s):
- Release date: October 2010
- Publisher(s): Laurence King
- ISBN: 9781856696791
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