5-Minute Sketching

Architecture: Super-Quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings

Liz Steel

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English

Search Press Ltd
30 June 2021

Art & Architecture; Drawing & drawings; Architecture

Series: 5-Minute Sketching

Great drawings in just five minutes! Perfect for beginners.

Professional architect and urban sketcher Liz Steel provides expert tips and inspiring sketches to help you learn to ‘read’ buildings and capture them on paper. Relish the challenge of recording urban spaces – from the domestic to the majestic – in just five minutes!

This book can help artists of all abilities, especially novices, to understand and reproduce real-life perspective in their drawings. The rules of perspective will become instinctive and the artist can focus on the creative: decorative forms, the setting, the mood, the people, and the activity that gives life to architecture.

Featuring a comprehensive collection of expert tips, ideas and inspirational examples of amazing 5-minute sketches of architecture, the bite-sized approach of this book shows how little time is needed to make drawing a part of everyday life. It is an ideal introduction to a rewarding pastime and a new source of inspiration for experienced and lapsed sketchers.

By: Liz Steel
Imprint: Search Press Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 220mm, Width: 170mm,
ISBN: 9781782219996
ISBN 10: 1782219994
Series: 5-Minute Sketching
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 30 June 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Chapter 1: How to see Find your story, See simple shapes, Outline the basic volumes, Set out the basic structure, Easy measuring, Basic thickness and depth, Nail the eyeline, Simple one-point perspective, Quick tips for foreshortening, Play with distortion, Simple context Chapter 2: Quick on the draw Focus on doors and windows, Simplify details and styles, Have fun with walls, Rapid roof shapes, Simple houses, Capture historic buildings, Easy religious buildings, Quick modern buildings, Rapid tall structures, Simple skylines, Sketch famous landmarks, Capture public spaces, Sketch streetscapes, Simplify shops, cafes and pubs, Capture construction sites, Quick sketch bridges, Simple exterior spaces Chapter 3: Time-saving techniques Work small, Use minimal lines, Rapid restated lines, Try thick lines, Explanatory contour drawing, Map light and dark, Simple tonal values, Shade quickly, Hatch and cross-hatch with speed, Catch the light, Play with contrast, Just use paint, Coloured lines and minimal paint Chapter 4: Speedy supplies Quick ink, Quick pencil, Quick coloured pencil, Quick markers, Quick paint Quick watercolour pencils, Sketch first, colour later, Play with paper, Go digital for speed, Sketch off the page Index

Liz Steel is an artist, teacher, illustrator and architect based in Sydney, Australia. She has 20 years' experience working on residential and commercial projects, specializing in media. She is a fast but accurate sketch artist with a passion for architecture of any era, but especially Baroque buildings. She has combined her architecture training with many years of urban sketching around the world to develop specific strategies for drawing buildings. Liz teaches sketching courses online at sketchingnow.com and hosts workshops around Australia, where she is the Australia coordinator for the global online community, Urban Sketchers. Find out more about Liz on her Instagram @lizsteelart or on her popular blog at lizsteel.com.

Reviews for 5-Minute Sketching: Architecture: Super-Quick Techniques for Amazing Drawings

Very clear, step-by-step guide which should improve anyone's ability to draw this subject. I really like the way it helps you to see your subject more clearly and work out where to start and how to build your drawing up logically. You can dip into any of the chapters to learn and refresh your memory as you draw. It makes something that I found a very complicated process much more manageable. The tips on perspective and using light and shadow really help you to capture the whole scene, while the section on key architectural elements is great for quick practice sketches and helping you to hone in on the details. -- Heather Haigh * Amazon Customer Review *