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9781631591280

The Urban Sketching Handbook Understanding Perspective Easy Techniques for Mastering Perspective Drawing on Location

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  • ISBN13:

    9781631591280

  • ISBN10:

    1631591282

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2016-06-15
  • Publisher: Quarry Books
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Summary

A good sketch starts with good bones.

The fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the often challenging and overwhelming concepts of perspective in practical and useful ways for on-site sketching. Most books are either too abstract or don't provide enough information that relates to what you actually do when you're out in the busy, wide world about to start a drawing. Where do you start? How do you edit what you see to flatten and shrink it onto your paper? How does perspective work?

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective helps you learn to think like an architect, to draw buildings and spaces by reducing what you see to simple, basic shapes, then adding layers in simple steps, and finally finishing your sketch with detail, tone, and color--in accurate perspective. Full of helpful tips, architect and illustrator, Stephanie Bower even de-constructs sketches to show you how to create them! Once you understand perspective, it will change the way you see the world--you'll see perspective everywhere.

Some of the key concepts explored in this volume are:

- Basic Terms

- Basic Spatial Principles

- Types of Perspective

- Building a Sketch in Layers

- Special Conditions

Author Biography

Stephanie Bower worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. She taught the how-to's of architectural location sketching for over twenty-five years in New York City at Parsons and in Seattle at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts. She has two online sketching classes at Bluprint.com, and she travels and teaches perspective and watercolor workshops internationally, including at six Urban Sketchers symposiums. People around the world follow her sketches online via Instagram @stephanieabower and Facebook, and she is an international blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. Stephanie is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She is the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective (Quarry Books, 2016) , The Urban Sketching Handbook: 101 Sketching Tips (Quarry Books, 2019), and co-author of The Urban Sketching Art Pack (Quarry Books, 2017).

Table of Contents

About this Series
            Introduction
 KEYS
            I   BASICS
                        Tools   
                        Terms  
                        Proportions and Measuring                  
            II   BASIC SPATIAL PRINCIPLES
                        Diminishing      
                        Converging
                        Foreshortening
            III  TYPES OF PERSPECTIVES
                        View Eye Levels
                                    “Eye Level”
Aerial or Bird’s-Eye Level
                                    Worm’s-Eye Level
                        View Angles
                                    One-Point Perspective
                                    Two-Point Perspective
                                    Multiple Vanishing Points                     
            IV  BUILD A SKETCH IN LAYERS
                                    Shape of the Face
                                    Shape of the Space
                                    Shape of the Box
            V  MORE PERSPECTIVE
                        Circles and Ellipses
                        Arches
                        Domes
                        Reflections
GALLERIES
                        Wide-Angle in Perspective
                        Texture in Perspective
                        Painting in Perspective
                        Learning in Perspective
Contributing Artists
About the Author
Acknowledgments
 

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