Resources/Books for Drawing Technique

Another good book is residential landscape architecture ( by booth and hiss) which walks you through the design process but also has sections on color rendering and drawing perspectives from photos. The three listed by Thomas are currently on my coffee on my table and are pretty much standard books for designers/la’s.

I find this blog to be a great resource for a variety of drawing and sketching styles. I believe it was featured on Land8 a while ago.

http://www.urbansketchers.com/

Paul,

Mike Lin has a book that guides you through the techniques he covers in his drawing class, Drawing and Designing with Confidence. I took his 2 week class and found it to be helpful (http://www.beloose.com/). His perspective charts might be worth checking out, as they make perspective drawing really easy. The first book we covered in school, and to which we kept returning, was Landscape Graphics by Grant Reid.

You may also want to start a collection of photoshop images you can plug into some of your boards: cars, people, furniture, plants without background.

Enjoy the time!
Christa

You are so smart to do this! It wouldn’t be a bad idea to learn the fundamentals of Adobe Creative Suite also.

One book I always recommend to the first year students (most of whom find drawing mystifying) is “Drawing on the right side of the brain” by Betty Edwards. This is NOT a how to for designers but rather a book that shows the reader how to “really see” through drawing. You can probably find the book in your local library.

http://drawright.com/theory.htm – This gives the background and theory from the book

Also, I second Susannah’s comment. Learn Adobe CS if you haven’t already. You’ll be happy you did.

Best of luck!

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no books on hand rendering are needed. 

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