Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers, 3rd Edition

Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers, 3rd Edition offers a comprehensive guide to color drawing. This completely updated third edition of the text provides users with a comprehensive course in the techniques of illustration. This text includes many new and more effective drawing methods as well as traditional methods. The book also takes into account popular computer aided design solutions such as Photoshop and other similar applications. The text is written by Michael E. Doyle, vice president and senior designer of CommArts in Boulder, Colorado. Michael is an architect and is a former instructor of design at the University of Colorado.

The text offers two parts as well as an introduction. The first part focuses on color drawing for communication. This takes students throughout the initial steps as well as focusing on media and paper, techniques, materials, elements and finishes. This part also focuses on figures, automobiles and scale elements. The second part of the text focuses on color drawing for presentation. This part gives students insight into composition in illustration as well as color and focuses on creating color design drawings. Students are also introduced to digital color drawing. The text comes with a full glossary as well as an index at the end of its 432 pages.

Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers, 3rd Edition - Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• PART I. COLOR DRAWING FOR COMMUNICATION
  • Initial
  • Media and Pager
  • Technique
  • Elements, Materials, and Finishes
  • Scale Elements: Figures and Automobiles
• PART II. COLOR DRAWING FOR PRESENTATION
  • Color and Composition in Illustration
  • Approaches to Creating Color Design Drawings
  • Digital Color Drawing
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Design Credits
• Index