Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology | 
|  | | | Title: | Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology | | Author: | Jim Leggitt | | Publisher: | Wiley [Website] | | Type: | Book / Hardcover | | Publication Date: | 15 March, 2002 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0471075493 / 9780471075493 | | List Price: | $54.95 | | You Save: | $20.33 | | Amazon Price: | $34.62 | |
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An ingeniously simple drawing approach that joins traditional hand drawing techniques with modern technology
Start creating top-quality drawings faster and more effectively-with Drawing Shortcuts. This book presents practical techniques and applications that will improve your drawing skills and help you produce more accurate sketches by incorporating traditional hand drawing methods with today's technology. Easy-to-follow instructions cover every aspect from the basics of drawing-such as composition, color, shading, shadow, and perspective-up to the most current applications of cameras, copiers, and computers to create and reproduce your work.
This book's step-by-step approach will sharpen and streamline your techniques whether you draw for pleasure or for your profession. Generously enriched with detailed process drawings, examples, and more than 300 full-color images, it features:
* Detailed outlines of drawing methods, from "storyboarding" to the "overlay and trace" method
* Timesaving, end-of-chapter "QuickTips" for easy reference
* Guidelines for building a portfolio
* Pointers on selecting materials and maximizing color potential
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Customer Reviews:
• This Book Was Just Painful !!!!!!! 15 July, 2004
Very dissapointed in this book...especially since he is an advocate of Sketchup (which is why I anxiously wanted this book). I think some of his shortcuts are ok, but I found the book very, very repetitive (almost painfully) and the authors rendering style is just simply BRUTAL! I mean, it seems as if every one of his renderings include happy,smiley 1980's rocky mountain-type scale figures and all of the scale children hold teddy bears! His library of projects lack any pizzazz and there's just no sophistication to his rendering style. The most tedious read of the year for me.
- Reviewed by customer ID: AOD3E7N0D9DQV
• Why The Hype? 17 December, 2002
I was left with the feeling from the other reviews that this book would be great for architects, which it is not. It is more for an art student. If you want a better book on architecture drawing get "Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers, 2nd Edition" by Michael E. Doyle
- Reviewed by customer ID: A35HK0ZU7MWA4X
• One Of The Books I Show To My Students 23 March, 2008
There are lots of good tips in this book. It is one I recommend to my architectural drawing students. It is very good on how to make quick presentations and it shows several midias and how to use them. As most of the students use 3d software for final presentations right now, I think this book is a very good motivation for using traditional midia techniques during process work. Making good and quick drawings for explaining ideas is a very useful skill and this book helps.
- Reviewed by customer ID: ADX16V8F53AP6
• Drawing Shortcuts 04 April, 2008
Every once in awhile, a life changing book comes along. I've been creating Architectural Illustrations for over 40 years using airbrush, water color and pen and ink. I've never felt comfortable doing quick sketches. Jim's book clearly delineates the tools and techniques needed to produce drawings fast and on-site. Living in New Orleans, I'm involved in a lot of post Katrina planning and development. These new skills are an invaluable asset for my continued survival.
Richard L. Gardner, New Orleans, LA
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3IEZ7DS4RUTQU
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