The Urban Sketching Handbook Understanding Perspective: Volume 4
Easy Techniques for Mastering Perspective Drawing on Location
Published on 15. June 2016
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-1-63159-128-0 (ISBN)
Description
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
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
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
100 color photos
Dimensions
Height: 208 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
241 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63159-128-0 (9781631591280)
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The Urban Sketching Handbook Understanding Perspective: Volume 4
Easy Techniques for Mastering Perspective Drawing on Location
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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) and co-author of The Urban Sketching Art Pack (Quarry Books, 2017).
Content
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
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