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

Description

A good sketch starts with good bones. Often challenging and overwhelming to sketchers, the fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the 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? Understanding Perspective (The Urban Sketching Handbook) 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 colour - 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

Stephanie Bower is a Seattle-based architectural illustrator, teacher, watercolorist, and travelling Urban Sketcher. Stephanie worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. In Seattle, she produces pencil and watercolour images for many renowned architecture and design firms. For over twenty-five years, Stephanie has taught the how-to's of architectural sketching. People around the world follow her sketches online via Flickr, her blog 'Drawing Perspectives', and as blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. She is also a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. Stephanie continues to learn about architecture through her sketches, pursuing her lifelong dream of seeing the world, sketching, teaching and encouraging others to see their world through the magic of drawing.