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"Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of architecturally and culturally significant buildings, bridges, towers, monuments, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring architects, artists, illustrators, and urban sketchers."--Amazon.com
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Aimed at absolute beginners, this essential guide provides the technical tricks of the trade,the "building blocks",needed to portray structures from country churches to city skylines. All it takes is 10 easy and fully illustrated lessons to master linear perspective, proportion, and composition, and to capture the texture of materials such as brick, stone, concrete, wood, glass, and steel. Draw a simple weathered wooden bungalow using graphite pencil....
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"A practical guide to drawing and painting the built environment. From town houses to cottages and from churches and classical architecture to continental cafes and street scenes, Richard Taylor's guidance and advice will encourage you to meet the exciting challenges of drawing and painting buildings using a wide variety of media and techniques." --
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Thanks to this truly interactive, step-by-step guide, aspiring master builders can make amazing structures that push the limits of the imagination. From theaters to bridges, every masterpiece here is based on a real construction. Travel to five continents to erect an African palace, an Asian pagoda, a European clock tower, an Australian beach hut, an American diner-and, for a world-class difficult project, an entire mountain village. You'll get plenty...
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While step-by-step drawing books are easy to find, these four colorful volumes from the Learn to Draw series cover topics somewhat off the beaten track. Each book presents six four-page projects. For each, the first double-page spread features a large photo of the insect, sport, vehicle, or structure to be drawn, surrounded by a number of informational text boxes. The next spread includes a smaller version of the photo along with nine illustrated...
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"Ever felt like making your own Empire State Building out of paper? Turning a menu into a Sydney Opera house in next to no time? Origami City is an instructional guide to making more than 30 paper landmarks from around the world. Each project features clear, illustrated steps, and up front the book explains origami basics for complete beginners, as well as some of the more unusual folds used for more experienced origamists"--Back cover.
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"This book is ideal for anyone with an interest in the visual character of the cities and buildings that frame our lives. Expert art tutor and writer Matthew Brehm helps you capture the life of the places where you work and spend your free time, and the places you visit in your travels. The skills and strategies presented here will help you make a visual record of the urban places you experience, and help you learn about these places in the process....