Drawing the Landscape

Synopsis

This Elegant Fourth Edition Of Chip Sullivan's Classic Drawing The Landscape Shows How To Use Drawing As A Path Towards Understanding The Natural And Built Environment. It Offers Guidance For Tapping Into And Exploring Personal Creative Potential And Helps Readers Master The Essential Principles, Tools, And Techniques Required To Prepare Professional Graphic Representations In Landscape Architecture And Architecture. It Illustrates How To Create A Wide Range Of Graphic Representations Using Step-by-step Tutorials, Exercises And Hundreds Of Samples.--publisher Description. 1. The Essence Of Drawing -- Conceptualizing -- Freedom And Structure -- Power Of Drawing -- Spirit Of Drawing -- 2. The Daybook -- Media -- Mixed Media -- Doodles -- 3. The Creative Environment -- The Studio -- The Artistic Community -- Inspiration -- The Creative Process -- 4. Equipment And Drawing Instruments -- 5. Preliminary Drawing Exercises -- 6. Tone And Texture -- Light, Shade, And Shadow -- Tone And Value -- Hatching -- Crosshatching -- Chiaroscuro -- Basic Solids In Tone -- 7. Drawing Techniques For Trees And Plants -- Contour Drawing -- Gesture -- Plant Forms -- Plant Structure -- Foliage -- Tree And Plant Massing -- 8. Composing The Landscape Drawing -- The Picture Plane -- The Classic Landscape Composition -- Optical Devices -- 9. Freehand Perspective Drawing -- Linear Perspective -- Freehand Landscape Perspective -- Horizon Line -- Viewpoints And Vanishing Points -- Proportional Relationships -- Developing The Gestural Quality Of Freehand Perspective-- Architectural Perspective -- 10. Drawing The Landscape In Plan, Elevation, And Section -- The Landscape Plan -- Frame Of Reference -- Scale -- The Freehand Conceptual Plan -- The Measured Plan -- Ground Plane Treatments -- Ground Plane Textures -- Water -- Architecture -- Trees And Vegetation -- Shadows -- The Elevation -- The Section -- Illustrating Elevation And Section -- Elevation Perspective -- 11. Axonometric And Isometric Landscape Drawing -- The Axonometric -- The Isometric -- Freehand Bird's Eye -- The Exploded View -- Illustrating The Axonometric And Isometric -- Composing The Paraline Drawing -- 12. Animating The Landscape : Visual Narratives, Storyboards, And Moving Drawings -- The Figure In Space -- Comics And The Visual Narrative -- Storyboarding The Landscape -- Moving Drawings : Animating The Storyboard -- 13. The Hybrid Drawing -- The Joy Of Graphite -- Embellishing The Wireframe -- Digital Rendering Techniques -- Drawing Over Photographs-- The Cézanne Effect And The Impressionist Image -- Techniques Of Sequential Artists -- Tea And Coffee Cocktail Washes -- The Scanned Wash -- Special Effects For Texturing Digital Prints -- Overpainting With Oils -- The Tableau -- 14. The Art Of Presentation -- The Mock-up -- Lettering -- The Competition Drawing -- Experimental Media : A Gallery Of Ideas. Chip Sullivan. Comes With A Registration Code Providing Access To The Book's Companion Website. Includes Bibliographical References (page 325) And Index.