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Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology [Hardcover]

Jim Leggitt (Author)
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A Denver architect has taken on a big task - teaching his colleagues how to draw again. According to Jim Leggitt, an architect and urban designer at Denver's RNL Design, there is a growing absence of architects in today's design marketplace who can draw by hand. In an effort to re-educate architects about the art and benefits of hand-drawing, Leggitt has written a book titled Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology. The book grew out of Leggitt's years of experience on the subject, including his presentations on the topic of "Drawing Shortcuts" at several national seminars, most recently at the 2000 National AIA Convention held in Philadelphia. (Colorado Construction Magazine, October 2001)

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An ingeniously simple drawing approach that joins traditional hand drawing techniques with modern technology

Start creating top-quality drawings faster and more effectively-with Drawing Shortcuts. This book presents practical techniques and applications that will improve your drawing skills and help you produce more accurate sketches by incorporating traditional hand drawing methods with today's technology. Easy-to-follow instructions cover every aspect from the basics of drawing-such as composition, color, shading, shadow, and perspective-up to the most current applications of cameras, copiers, and computers to create and reproduce your work.

This book's step-by-step approach will sharpen and streamline your techniques whether you draw for pleasure or for your profession. Generously enriched with detailed process drawings, examples, and more than 300 full-color images, it features:
* Detailed outlines of drawing methods, from "storyboarding" to the "overlay and trace" method
* Timesaving, end-of-chapter "QuickTips" for easy reference
* Guidelines for building a portfolio
* Pointers on selecting materials and maximizing color potential
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars Not for beginners, April 13 2010
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This review is from: Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology (Hardcover)
There are several indispensable books about architectural sketching and drawing. This book is not one of them, even if you can find something useful.
I would like to suggest, as Professor and as Architect, a short list to students: Rendering in Pen and Ink, Drawing as a means to Architecture, Color Drawing, Enhancing CAD Drawings with Photoshop, and Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture. This list is not free of suffering, but you will get there someday.
There are no shortcuts to be good. There is pain and pleasure invested in hours, days, weeks and years of practice and patience.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Better than chocolate!, Aug 27 2002
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Deborah Brooks (Savannah, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology (Hardcover)
The only way Jim Leggitt could make this book better would be to package it with a quarter pound of really good chocolates. I've chosen to overlook that omission since this book is exactly what I wanted to use in my rendering classes at the Savannah College of Art & Design. This is a twenty-first century handbook for rendering in color.

Thirty-one students (two classes) proved to me this summer that Drawing Shortcuts works for learning how to make and render drawings in color quickly, effectively and relatively economically. The final projects reflect ten weeks of increasingly stronger skills and confidence in drawing/rendering abilities. Both graduate and undergraduate students with varied levels of computer expertise found value in the Drawing Shortcuts approach of "Let Technology Do Your Dirty Work".

Bottom line: a relaxed learning atmosphere in studio, fearless renderers willing to experiment with color media and striking final projects. The studio professors are commenting on the improvement in rendered drawings in their classes, too. Leggitt's methods are weaning students from a dependence on computer-generated images. The enhanced freehand drawing skills complement the computer drawing skills. Students now have many options for graphic expression which reflect their individual needs and desires.

I teach rendering classes for interior design students in the School of Building Arts at SCAD. We'll be using this book every quarter. Thanks, Jim Leggitt. But think about the chocolates with the second edition of the book!

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Every Architect and Student Must Have This Book !, April 5 2002
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R. E. Middlebrooks (Chesapeake, VA USA) - See all my reviews
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This book is an instant classic, that every architect and architectural student must get. Many of us grew up using the techniques taught by Michael Doyle in his book "Color Drawing". Jim Leggitt's techniques are even more geared toward the pace of productivity we all face. Using all the advantages of current technologies, including cameras, copiers, and printers he shows you exactly how to improve or gain the skills it takes to produce fast and effective visualizations. Some of the techniques are so insightful and helpful, as to immediately payback the cost of the book. Great color photographs help guide you step by step. This book is packed full. No one interested in drawing technigues should miss this book.
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