A Beginner's Guide to Sketching Buildings & Landscapes: Perspective and Proportions for Drawing Architecture, Gardens and More [Team-IRA] 0804856230, 9780804856232
The key to creating a powerful drawing is to start with the right concept! In this book, sketching and painting expert
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Table of contents :
Cover
Title Page
Contents
Why I Wrote This Book
Drawing Buildings: Which Part to Draw, and from Which Vantage Point?
Chapter 1 Depicting Facades
Sketching with Squares and a Central Line
Depictions Using Triangles
Dividing a Pentagonal Facade into Squares and Triangles
Depictions Using Squares and Circles
Depictions Using Squares and Triangles: Placement of Edges
Chapter 2 Choosing and Placing Close-up and Distant Landscapes in a Sketch
What to Omit in Close-up and Distant Landscapes
Drawing Only a Close-up Landscape
Contrasting Close-up and Distant Landscapes
Drawing a Sweeping Field of Flowers
Drawing a Castle Visible Behind Stone Walls
Concerning Composition
Chapter 3 Division of Ground and Sky
How to Divide the Ground and Sky
Center Division
A 5:8 Composition
An 8:5 Composition
Position of the Horizon: Expansive Sky vs. Expansive Sea
Compositions Divided at a Low Position (13:5)
Special Compositions from a Low Position
Chapter 4 Expressing Depth in One Direction
Depicting a Building Facade and Creating Depth with the Foreground
Depicting a Facade Viewed Slightly from the Side
A Waterway Extending to the Right
A Castle Tower with a Mo
A Gently Curving Waterway in the Snow
A Zen Garden
Downtown Buildings
Connected Arches
A Garden Extending Into the Distance
Chapter 5 Determining a 3D Expression with the First Two Directional Diagonal Lines
Buildings with No Visible Ground
Buildings with Colonnades
Traditional Japanese Architecture: A Temple Hall with Tiled Roof
Traditional Japanese Architecture: An Entrance Gate
Buildings with Complex Depth
A Fork in the Road
Expressing the Size of a Building
Chapter 6 The First Sketch Lines Determine the Look of a Landscape Viewed from Above or Below
Looking up at a Facade
Looking up at a House on a Hill
Looking up at a Church
Looking up at a Torii Shrine Gate
Looking up at a Mountain
Looking down a Hill at a House
Looking down from High Ground
Looking down from a Tower
Looking down over a Coastal Village
Chapter 7 Defined by the First Few Lines: Bridges, Steps, Mountains and Rocks
A Simple Stone Bridge
A Multispan Arch Bridge
A Suspension Bridge
A Bridge Reflected in the Water
Steps
A Towering Mountain
A Mountain Range
Countryside and Mountains
Placement of Rocks
Copyright
Backcover
