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Freehand Drawing and Discovery: Urban Sketching and Concept Drawing for Designers by James Richards
onlz's review against another edition
3.0
Meant for a professional, not amateur audience, but still interesting to see how stretching relates to actual design consulting work.
anh's review
4.0
a quite thorough look at how to draw environments for landscape+/architects. i like how he broke down the process for different sketches and explained how different parts of it contributed to making the whole piece. i'm at a stage now where i can tell when my art is lacking some mysterious factor that would elevate it, but am generally unable to pinpoint what it is. this book does a nice job of explaining those factors so i can better pick apart my work.
there's a section dedicated to using digital tools for architecture drawings and i sort of skimmed this since i'm not that interested. but there was a good point i liked:
on the author questioning whether it's cheating to trace photos/3d models as part of the process to explore ideas, the response was: "we're not producing art per se, we're designers and we're working in the real world. our ideas have real consequences. it's vitally important that the context of our ideas be depicted accurately so that decisions can be based on good information."
there's a section dedicated to using digital tools for architecture drawings and i sort of skimmed this since i'm not that interested. but there was a good point i liked:
on the author questioning whether it's cheating to trace photos/3d models as part of the process to explore ideas, the response was: "we're not producing art per se, we're designers and we're working in the real world. our ideas have real consequences. it's vitally important that the context of our ideas be depicted accurately so that decisions can be based on good information."
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