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The Urban Sketching Handbook Understanding Perspective

Easy Techniques for Mastering Perspective Drawing on Location
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The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective by Stephanie Bower is an insightful guide for artists seeking to enhance their sketching skills by mastering perspective. The book offers practical techniques and tips for capturing depth and dimension in urban environments, making it an essential resource for beginners and experienced artists alike. With clear instructions and visual examples, it helps readers develop a strong foundation in perspective for more dynamic and realistic sketches.
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If you're fascinated by capturing the world around you in a sketchbook and want to enhance your drawing skills, particularly in understanding how space and depth work in an urban setting, this guide could be just what you need. With clear techniques and insights from a seasoned architect and artist, it's perfect for anyone eager to bring urban scenes to life through sketching.

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Learn how to put the 3D world on the 2D page with Understanding Perspective (The Urban Sketching Handbook). Learn about depth, scale, contrast, composition, and more.

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A good sketch starts with good bones.

Often challenging and overwhelming to sketchers, the fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the concepts of perspective in practical and useful ways for on-site sketching. Most books are either too abstract or don't provide enough information that relates to what you actually do when you're out in the busy, wide world about to start a drawing. Where do you start? How do you edit what you see to flatten and shrink it onto your paper? How does perspective work?

Understanding Perspective (The Urban Sketching Handbook) helps you learn to think like an architect, to draw buildings and spaces by reducing what you see to simple, basic shapes, then adding layers in simple steps, and finally finishing your sketch with detail, tone, and colour - in accurate perspective. Full of helpful tips, architect and illustrator, Stephanie Bower even deconstructs sketches to show you how to create them! Once you understand perspective, it will change the way you see the world - you'll see perspective everywhere.

Some of the key concepts explored in this volume are:

  • Basic Terms
  • Basic Spatial Principles
  • Types of Perspective
  • Building a Sketch in Layers
  • Special Conditions

Series: Urban Sketching Handbooks

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    Master the challenges of drawing on location with this collection of insider know-how and expert tips and techniques. Illustrator, architect, and international workshop instructor and Urban Sketcher Stephanie Bower has collected 101 of her best insider drawing tips, hacks, and techniques and shares them in this fully illustrated, portable book. Learn shortcuts to getting your perspective right, determining your composition,...
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    A good sketch starts with good bones. Often challenging and overwhelming to sketchers, the fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the concepts of perspective in practical and useful ways for on-site sketching. Most books are either too abstract or don't provide enough information that relates to what you actually do when...
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    In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners, artist and Urban Sketcher correspondent Suhita Shirodkar shares essential skills for sketching architecture, people, and everyday objects on location. You'll learn the basics of value, colour mixing, and perspective through helpful studies and exercises, whether at home, in studio, and on location. The Urban Sketching Handbook: Techniques for Beginners is perfect for...
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    In The Urban Sketching Handbook: Panoramas and Vertical Vistas, urban sketcher and art educator Mario Linhares gives a guided tour on how to explore and capture cityscapes and landscapes in drawings from unique points of view. In this thorough yet accessible book, you'll learn how to: Improve your drawing skills and selectively translate what you see for maximum impact. Fearlessly...
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    Learn to express yourself through colour while painting on location with the in-depth tips and techniques of Working with Color, the fifth volume in the Urban Sketching Handbook series. Expert watercolourist, illustrator, instructor, and co-founder of Urban Sketchers Montreal Shari Blaukopf shares her essential colour tips about colour-water ratio, achieving bold colour, avoiding muddy washes, painting in layers, and using...
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    In Drawing with a Tablet (Urban Sketching Handbook), readers will learn step by step how to create amazing drawings while on the go. In the sixth volume of the Urban Sketching Handbook series, popular artist and workshop instructor Uma Kelkar shows sketchers how to take their digital drawing to the next level. Whether you are new to sketching or wish...
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  • The Urban Sketching Handbook People and Motion
    Award-winning illustrator Gabriel Campanario first introduced his approach to drawing in The Art of Urban Sketching, a showcase of more than 500 sketches and drawing tips shared by more than 100 urban sketchers around the world. Now, he drills down into specific challenges of making sketches on location, rain or shine, quickly or slowly, and the most suitable techniques for...
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  • The Urban Sketching Handbook Spotlight on Nature
    Learn how to make the most of nature in on-location drawings and paintings with workshop instructors and UrbanSketcher.org correspondents Gail L. Wong and Virginia Hein. In The Urban Sketching Handbook Spotlight on Nature, Gail and Virginia share their secrets for getting beyond basic greenery. Presenting detailed step-by-step examples along with quick, insightful tips, this book explains and clarifies important fundamentals...
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  • The Urban Sketching Handbook Understanding Light
    Understanding Light (The Urban Sketching Handbook) is an informative guide to heightening the impact of your artwork by capturing the look and subtleties of light in any scene. In settings ranging from fields and mountains at daybreak to neon cityscapes at midnight, learn how to express light effects through colour and value to improve and refine your drawings and paintings....
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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781631591280

Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 June 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Quarry Books

Illustration: 100 color photos

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

About the Author

Stephanie Bower is a Seattle-based architectural illustrator, teacher, watercolorist, and travelling Urban Sketcher. Stephanie worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. In Seattle, she produces pencil and watercolour images for many renowned architecture and design firms. For over twenty-five years, Stephanie has taught the how-to's of architectural sketching. People around the world follow her sketches online via Flickr, her blog 'Drawing Perspectives', and as blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. She is also a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. Stephanie continues to learn about architecture through her sketches, pursuing her lifelong dream of seeing the world, sketching, teaching and encouraging others to see their world through the magic of drawing.

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