Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology

The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization tools. Jim Leggitt?s Drawing Shortcuts shows how communicating with hand drawings combined with digital technology can be ingeniously simple, and this new edition makes an already popular technique even better. Completely expanded with new chapters and a wealth of supporting images, this Second Edition presents practical techniques for improving drawing efficiency and effectiveness by combining traditional hand drawing methods with the latest dig.

Cover; Half Title page; Title page; Dedication; Copyright page; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Traditional Drawing Types; Observation Drawings; Imagination Drawings; Thumbnail Drawings; Concept Drawings; Presentation Drawings; Chapter 2: Drawing Composition; Drawing Composition; Perspective Drawings; Paraline Drawings; Chapter 3: Traditional Drawing Tools; Drawing Media; Drawing with Pencils; Drawing with Pens; Hatching Techniques; Showing Detail; Creating Shadows; Correcting Mistakes; Drawing Safety; Chapter 4: Traditional Coloring Tools; How to Color with Pencils.

How to Color with MarkersMixed-Media Drawings; Chapter 5: Traditional Entourage Drawing; Drawing Sources; How to Draw People; How to Draw Cars; How to Draw Vegetation; Drawing Furniture; Drawing Building Materials; Chapter 6: Digital Drawing Tools; 3-D Modeling; Digital Editing; Digital Photography; Chapter 7: Tradigital Drawing; Traditional + Digital; Tradigital Variations; Overlay and Trace; Simple Composite Method; Advanced Composite Method; Digital Hybrids; Chapter 8: Drawing Gallery; Kirk Fromm; Jennifer Mahoney; Paul Stevenson Oles, FAIA; Terry J. Leonard, AIA; Michael P. O'Beirne.

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