Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of
architecturally and culturally significant buildings, bridges, towers,
monuments, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and
Architectural Forms is a must-have visual reference for student and
aspiring architects, artists, illustrators, and urban sketchers.
This contemporary step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental
art and architectural concepts like proportion, perspective, and
spatial relationships as you learn to draw a wide range of important
residential, commercial, historic, and cultural buildings, bridges,
towers, and other structures from all over the world and from
ancient to modern--all shown from a variety of perspectives and
scales. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines
to a finished drawing. Author David Drazil's classic drawing style will
make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.
Learn how to establish basic shapes; articulate lines for
structure, forms, and shading; and add defining details by drawing
these celebrated sites and many others:
- Residential: Fallingwater in the US and the Silo in Copenhagen
- Commercial: Dancing House in Prague and Sugamo Shinkin Bank in
Tokyo
- Monuments/Sacred: Stonehenge in the UK and the Cathedral of
Brasilia
- Bridges: Jade Belt Bridge in Beijing and the Sydney Harbor Bridge
in Sydney, Australia
Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms is a
library essential for any artist or architect who's interested in
learning how to draw and explore the underlying design principles of
influential constructions.
The books in the Draw Like an Artist series are richly visual
references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically
through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and
illustrators.
