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Beginner's Guide to Sketching Buildings & Landscapes

Perspective and Proportions for Drawing Architecture, Gardens and More! (With over 500 illustrations)

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The key to creating a powerful drawing is to start with the right concept!
In this book, sketching and painting expert Masao Yamada provides dozens of examples showing you how to establish accurate perspective guidelines and proportions for your initial pencil sketches, setting your drawings up to succeed right from the start. If a sketch's perspective and proportions are correct, your finished work will look crisp and beautiful. If not, you'll have a frustrating time trying to correct the problems at a later stage—and the finished work will never look quite right. A Beginner's Guide to Sketching Buildings & Landscapes is here to help you avoid those frustrations and set up your composition for a finished piece that will make you proud.
The detailed step-by-step lessons in this indispensable guide teach you how to:
  • Establish a composition's point of view correctly
  • Locate the horizon line, dividing land and sky
  • Break down complicated scenes into simple component shapes
  • Create the right relationship between foreground and background
  • Express 3D imagery using 2-point and 3-point perspective

  • Experience the satisfaction of creating well-formed and well-balanced landscape and architectural illustrations of churches, castles, houses, mountains, bridges, waterways, gardens, and much more!
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      • Library Journal

        June 10, 2024

        Engineer and architect Yamada, the author of multiple sketching and design books in Japanese, here guides new artists and those in the beginning stages of sketching buildings and scenery. Readers are taught how to identify the basic shapes and lines that undergird even the most complex architectural features or landscapes. Focusing on the critical first lines of a sketch, Yamada emphasizes the importance of finding the convergence (or vanishing) point where straight lines meet in the distance; this enables artists to determine the size, components, and proportions of any scene. He also gives advice on creating interesting compositions by incorporating close-up and distant elements and dividing sketches into different zones to fit any size of paper. As for sectioning the sky from the ground in compositions, the book references ratios, but this highly technical discussion may lose readers who are less mathematically inclined. However, the example sketches and the book's highlighting of critical lines representing the center, horizon, and points of convergence make the concepts clearer. VERDICT A technical but highly useful guide to perspective and proportion.--Sara Shreve

        Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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