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Summary: Reviewing COLOR DRAWING: DESIGN DRAWING SKILLS & TECHNIQUES
Review: ...I took a required course for the Interior Design program at UC Berkeley, called Design Presentation Techniques, and this was the required book! My teacher highly recommended it (and he has a library of these types of books); as the students refered to it for their projects, they where praising it for it's informations and guidence...
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Summary: great resource
Review: A rare technique book that not only demonstrates technique but helps you choose the proper art supplies. The recommendation of specific tools and colors is crucial to quick success and happily eliminates a more time consuming trial and error approach. Once one follows the directions of several examples, the logic becomes
intuitive; for example, one grasps the desired range of value gradations, sees the possibility of melding two colors together with an intermediate value, or appreciates the effect of tinting highlight colors with the color of surrounding ambient light. Personal palette choices can be easily intuited from the standards gleaned from the book. Various units in the book explore the rendering of common materials or objects ; for example, vertical and horizontal wood siding, glass, metal,trees, etc. The sample of finished work is so admirable it easily inspires one to experiment with their own markers and pencils.
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Summary: Interior Design Students - Required reading
Review: I am an Interior Design Student and this book should be required reading. This book not only covers rendering techniques but also tells you which drawing media to use and why. They even give you the skinny on specific brands of drawing media. There are tons of time-saving techniques in this book that I wish I would have known about at the BEGINNING of my program. This will be a book that I refer to many times and that I highly recommend.
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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK !!!
Review: I bought this book in 1991 (hardcover...) and I remeber reading practicing and admiring the author's talent in both drawing and explaining everything he knows about markers+pencils. I have many renderings that were inspired by his style. Later I moved into pure watercolor but I also remember searching for those Designer2 Markers and Eagle pencils, in the streets of Buenos Aires (where I studied architecture). If you like drawing and rendering and like strong colors: this is one of the best choices out there. (amazing renderings inside)
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Summary: EXCELLENT BOOK !!!
Review: I bought this book in 1991 (hardcover...) and I remeber reading practicing and admiring the author's talent in both drawing and explaining everything he knows about markers+pencils. I have many renderings that were inspired by his style. Later I moved into pure watercolor but I also remember searching for those Designer2 Markers and Eagle pencils, in the streets of Buenos Aires (where I studied architecture). If you like drawing and rendering and like strong colors: this is one of the best choices out there. (amazing renderings inside)
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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: I recently purchased this book for an architecture class and boy has been helpful. There is a wealth of knowledge between these pages. Architectural color rendering is broken down in a step-by-step process that is easy to follow and understand.
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Summary: Very Helpful
Review: I recently purchased this book for an architecture class and boy has been helpful. There is a wealth of knowledge between these pages. Architectural color rendering is broken down in a step-by-step process that is easy to follow and understand.
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Summary: drawing and designing with confidence
Review: I'm taking a class of color sketching in the landscape at PORTLAND.C.COLLEGE -Oregon, and this book is "the reference".
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Summary: Get It
Review: OK, I will be honest. I have the older edition. It's got some campy early 80's scenes in it, but I found it essential in understanding how color hits building materials. If you are an architect or architectural student, you will need this book so that you can put some life into your drawings. If you are just an amateur like me, you still need this book.Learning how to draw using Doyle's techniques is useful for travel diaries, sketching, and so on. Since you are using color markers and pencils and blending the colors, you get a kind of richness and depth in drawings that don't come from just one medium alone. Also, the media (markers and pencils) are dry and won't spill in your backpack or attache when hauling it around places to do sketches and so on. (I took a mess of pencils and markers to Europe and it was easier to deal with than the trip I took after, where my watercolor paint froze on the travel diary!) I'm gonna put the latest edition on my wish list and hope Santa is good to me this season :-)
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Summary: Get It
Review: OK, I will be honest. I have the older edition. It's got some campy early 80's scenes in it, but I found it essential in understanding how color hits building materials. If you are an architect or architectural student, you will need this book so that you can put some life into your drawings. If you are just an amateur like me, you still need this book. Learning how to draw using Doyle's techniques is useful for travel diaries, sketching, and so on. Since you are using color markers and pencils and blending the colors, you get a kind of richness and depth in drawings that don't come from just one medium alone. Also, the media (markers and pencils) are dry and won't spill in your backpack or attache when hauling it around places to do sketches and so on. (I took a mess of pencils and markers to Europe and it was easier to deal with than the trip I took after, where my watercolor paint froze on the travel diary!) I'm gonna put the latest edition on my wish list and hope Santa is good to me this season :-)
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