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Informationen zum Autor Jim Leggitt, FAIA, is an architect, urban planner, and professional illustrator who has been practicing for over thirty years. Jim offers drawing workshops and is a frequent speaker at universities and national, regional, and local events where he has taught over 5,000 architects, designers, and students. Klappentext Create top-quality drawings faster and more effectively This book is about putting your design ideas on paper for others to enjoy. Recent developments in computer rendering technology have put amazing new tools in the hands of designers. But for communicating emotion and character, there is simply no replacement for good old-fashioned hand drawing. Jim Leggitt's Drawing Shortcuts gives you an ingeniously simple drawing approach that joins traditional hand-drawing techniques with the latest 2-D and 3-D digital technology. In this new edition of his popular book, architect and teacher Jim Leggitt, FAIA, introduces you to the fundamentals of drawing--such as drawing types, media options, composition, color, shading, hatching, and perspective--and then explains how to incorporate the most current digital technologies into your work. The book's step-by-step approach helps you: Sharpen and streamline your visualization technique using the "overlay and trace," "simple and advanced composition," and "digital hybrid drawings" methods Absorb the lessons through detailed process drawings, carefully chosen examples, and more than 500 full-color images Create amazing images combining your own hand drawings with 3-D computer views made with Google(R) SketchUp, Google(R) Earth, and other powerful programs Master "Tradigital Drawing," which merges traditional hand-drawing technique with digital imaging Whether you draw for pleasure or professionally, let Drawing Shortcuts, Second Edition show you how to utilize technology on your own terms--and communicate your designs with a timeless magic that's all your own. Zusammenfassung The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization tools. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Traditional Drawing Types 12 Observation Drawings 16 Imagination Drawings 20 Thumbnail Drawings 26 Concept Drawings 32 Presentation Drawings 45 Chapter 2 Drawing Composition 48 Drawing Composition 49 Perspective Drawings 56 Paraline Drawings 72 Chapter 3 Traditional Drawing Tools 76 Drawing Media 77 Drawing with Pencils 80 Drawing with Pens 86 Hatching Techniques 92 Showing Detail 96 Creating Shadows 100 Correcting Mistakes 102 Drawing Safety 103 Chapter 4 Traditional Coloring Tools 104 How to Color with Pencils 110 How to Color with Markers 116 Mixed-Media Drawings 124 Chapter 5 Traditional Entourage Drawing 130 Drawing Sources 131 How to Draw People 134 How to Draw Cars 140 How to Draw Vegetation 142 Drawing Furniture 150 Drawing Building Materials 154 Chapter 6 Digital Drawing Tools 158 3-D Modeling 160 Digital Editing 172 Digital Photography 176 Chapter 7 Tradigital Drawing 184 Traditional + Digital 185 Tradigital Variations 186 Overlay and Trace 188 Simple Composite Method 196 Advanced Composite Method 204 Digital Hybrids 210 Chapter 8 Drawing Gallery 212 Kirk Fromm 214 Jennifer Mahoney 218 Paul Stevenson Oles, FAIA 222 Terry J. Leonard, AIA 226 Michael P. O'Beirne 230 Seth Ha...
