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Architectural Rendering Techniques: A Color Reference

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I just want to emphasize to someone interested in purchasing this book...there is NO verbal technique given on how to render any drawings. There is a drawing only...with a description of paper, medium, etc...but no "how to" on reproducing it. I am a professional artist and I was hoping to learn from this book how someone else might create a drawing with certian papers, paints, etc....but, there is no information of the steps taken...just the end result.

Very good book. Many styles and techniques of rendering and architectural drawing. Many pictures to trace and learn techniques. Very little text. Text is not necessary

Overall, a feeling of disappointment. The title claims techniques but there is absolutely no guidance, no comments, and no insight for the reader. This is a picture book filled with a collection of renderings with minimal captions noting materials used and acknowledgements. Flipping page after page the reader begins to recognize the styles of the recurring artists. This book may help you identify a style (although dated) to pursue but it ultimately becomes the reader's burden to try to reproduce selected rendering through trail and error.

I bought this book and disliked it so much that it was the one and only book I have ever returned to Amazon. It was terribly dated which would have been acceptable if the content was there but it wasn't. Save some money AND get what you're looking for in Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers by Michael E. Doyle. That's what I replaced it with and I love it!

it is avery fantastic book im very happy to have it its educational and a very paowerful reference for rendering, it is time saving and easy to apply, wonderful colour schemes, i recomend this book to all architectural renderers & architects as well

Mike Lin's graphic course filled a big hole in my professional development. If you're willing to buy into his methods I can't recommend it highly enough. Both his books are good intros to his drawing method but they can only go so far by themselves.

If you're serious about transforming your sketching and rendering skills, take his course.

I'm fed up with all these drawing books out there that have tons upon Tons of text trying to tell you what to do. "Do this, DON'T do That", trying to tell you with WORDS how to DRAW! (Oxymoron?) And they always manage to leave out the few things you actually NEED to know! (Like paper type, medium, size, etc.) Usually written by people who either don't know how to draw in the first place, or don't know how to teach, or both.
WHICH IS EXACTLY WHY THIS BOOK IS SO GREAT!! It has almost NO text at all! Just page after page of clearly reproduced drawings. And the minimal text is limited to exactly the information you want to see: what medium the drawings were done in, what type of paper, size, and purhaps the most useful: HOW MANY HOURS EACH DRAWING TOOK!!
If you're good at studying good drawings but always wondering how long they should take and what kind of tools you should use, get this book!
By the way, there are a whole bunch of minor mis-prints and typos in the book, but just ignore them and use your common sense and you'll be fine.

If you are buying this book because it is required text for his talk, do youself a BIG service and get your refund immediately. He promises to deliver how to teach you graphics in 7 or 12 days, depending on the location, and he will not deliver. He takes your money, teaches, perhaps what equates to two days of real teaching and continously tells you how privileged you are to learn these things from him. The remaining time is spent on his non-stop blathering about non-related ideas like his philosophy, websites (like myspace), etc., etc. He wastes your valuable time and your hard earned money. Be forewarned!