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Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers, 2nd Edition

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OK, I will be honest. I have the older edition. It's got some campy early 80's scenes in it, but I found it essential in understanding how color hits building materials. If you are an architect or architectural student, you will need this book so that you can put some life into your drawings. If you are just an amateur like me, you still need this book.

Learning how to draw using Doyle's techniques is useful for travel diaries, sketching, and so on. Since you are using color markers and pencils and blending the colors, you get a kind of richness and depth in drawings that don't come from just one medium alone. Also, the media (markers and pencils) are dry and won't spill in your backpack or attache when hauling it around places to do sketches and so on. (I took a mess of pencils and markers to Europe and it was easier to deal with than the trip I took after, where my watercolor paint froze on the travel diary!)

I'm gonna put the latest edition on my wish list and hope Santa is good to me this season :-)

Maybe the title to this high quality book should start "The idiot's guide to..." or "The Dummy's guide..." I hadn't really drawn since I was at school and when I started studying interior design and realized I had to be able to realistically draw/paint lighting effects and shadows etc etc I went into a state of shock! Thank goodness I bought this book. It isn't filled with masses of boring text that is trying to teach you a visual subject. It's right there in front of you, page after page of colourful, step by step drawings. Be warned that marker pens are the favoured medium in this book. So if you are looking for a book about water colouring or gouache, you won't find it here. On the other hand, it is an excellent guide, I think, to how affects are achieved, whatever medium you prefer, and the book makes it all so simple.

A rare technique book that not only demonstrates technique but helps you choose the proper art supplies. The recommendation of specific tools and colors is crucial to quick success and happily eliminates a more time consuming trial and error approach. Once one follows the directions of several examples, the logic becomes
intuitive; for example, one grasps the desired range of value gradations, sees the possibility of melding two colors together with an intermediate value, or appreciates the effect of tinting highlight colors with the color of surrounding ambient light. Personal palette choices can be easily intuited from the standards gleaned from the book. Various units in the book explore the rendering of common materials or objects ; for example, vertical and horizontal wood siding, glass, metal,trees, etc. The sample of finished work is so admirable it easily inspires one to experiment with their own markers and pencils.

Excellent reference book for explaining techniques for drawing with Prismacolor markers and pencils, which are the primary instruments used by interior designers to use in color renderings. Book has the shortcuts and techniques needed to help take what you learn in drawing class to a higher level.

I am an Interior Design Student and this book should be required reading. This book not only covers rendering techniques but also tells you which drawing media to use and why. They even give you the skinny on specific brands of drawing media. There are tons of time-saving techniques in this book that I wish I would have known about at the BEGINNING of my program. This will be a book that I refer to many times and that I highly recommend.

...I took a required course for the Interior Design program at UC Berkeley, called Design Presentation Techniques, and this was the required book! My teacher highly recommended it (and he has a library of these types of books); as the students refered to it for their projects, they where praising it for it's informations and guidence...

I bought this book in 1991 (hardcover...) and I remeber reading practicing and admiring the author's talent in both drawing and explaining everything he knows about markers+pencils. I have many renderings that were inspired by his style. Later I moved into pure watercolor but I also remember searching for those Designer2 Markers and Eagle pencils, in the streets of Buenos Aires (where I studied architecture). If you like drawing and rendering and like strong colors: this is one of the best choices out there. (amazing renderings inside)

This is the standard for rendering in architecture and interior design as far as I am concerned. It will most definitely become a required textbook for my classes in visual presentation in the years to come. Doyle takes you step-by-step into the process of rendering with marker, color pencil, and pastels. But he doesn't just spoon feed you the recipe for each material rendering, he presents the basis for a process that allows you to render virtually any material not found in the book.

It's really hard to say too many things about this book. Even older editions of Color Drawing are great, but this newest one goes above and beyond the call of duty. In an age when a lot of books get re-released as new editions with few substantive changes, Color Drawing breaks the mold by updating the techniques with current technology (i.e. Photoshop). It's great to see that the author and publisher realize that pure hand-drawing and rendering is quickly becoming a thing of the past and that the practitioners of today and tomorrow need to have excellent computer skills too. This book is full of very useful tips for combining Photoshop with hand drawings to create great effects. So even if you have an earlier edition, do yourself a favor and buy the new one anyway because you will learn a lot.

I recently purchased this book for an architecture class and boy has been helpful. There is a wealth of knowledge between these pages. Architectural color rendering is broken down in a step-by-step process that is easy to follow and understand.