Freehand drawing and discovery : urban sketching and concept drawing for designers / txt
James Richards; foreword by Francis D.K. Ching
- xxi, 265p. ill.; plans. 28 cm. book
Includes index.
Foreword / Francis D.K. Ching -- Part 1. Learning a language -- Chapter 1. The Freehand Renaissance -- Influences -- Art and technology -- Reintegrating work and play -- Drawing and discovery with Michael Vergason -- Chapter 2. Nine keys to exploratory drawing -- Simplify tools -- Simplify message -- Work small -- Simplify technique -- Attack the drawing -- Draw people first -- Pull it together with darks -- Leave it loose -- Annotate everything -- Drawing and discovery with Kevin Sloan -- Chapter 3. Elements and entourage -- People -- Vehicles -- Trees, shrubs, groundcovers -- Rock and landforms -- Water -- Furnishings -- Sky -- Buildings -- Drawing and discovery with Christine Ten Eyck -- Chapter 4. Creating believable worlds -- Perspective : what you really need to know -- Creating depth : foreground, middle ground, background -- Building up color -- Pulling it together -- Drawing and discovery with Luis Ruiz -- Part 2. Urban sketching -- Chapter 5. Urban sketching as creative fuel -- Drawing and discovery with Gabriel Campanario -- Chapter 6. Capturing the place -- Tools -- Subject matter -- Editing -- To color or not to color? -- Working fast -- Drawing and discovery with Liz Steel -- Part 3. Concept sketching -- Chapter 7. Capturing the idea -- Sketching over digital bases -- Sketching over aerial photographs -- Concepts and character -- Drawing and discovery with Kim Perry -- Chapter 8. Digital sketching : Drawing without limits -- The vision -- The reality -- Table sketching gallery -- Drawing and discovery with Robert Chipman, ASLA -- Chapter 9. What's next? -- Practice -- Collect -- Copy -- Keep the well filled -- Drawing and discovery with Bob Hopewell -- Endnote -- Index.