Creative Marker Techniques: In Combination With Mixed Media [Paperback]

Yoshiharu Shimizu (Author)

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Language Notes

Text: Japanese, English

Product Details

• Paperback: 131 pages
• Publisher: Books Nippan; Shohan edition (November 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 476610580X
• ISBN-13: 978-4766105803
• Product Dimensions: 13.8 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,199,091 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Learn to do amazing renderings with markers and pastels, June 8, 1999

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Mike, illustrator([e-mail]) (Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Marker Techniques: In Combination With Mixed Media (Paperback)

As an upcoming concept designer I've been searching for a book which explaines the techniques on how to render a sketch with markers and pastels. This book shows you how to rendering different products with the same technique. Some of them do almost look as if they were a photo. It is much of a Japanese styl, but it really illustrates your idea. Actually, iF Amazon would have shown the cover you would see whats really in this book. If you like those illustrations done by industrial designers, drawn with markers and pastels on vellum, with flying perfect lines, amazing shadows, you will love this book.

BUT WAIT! The only bad thing is that it shows you how to work the SAME tachnique on a variety of objects. The technique is great, sure is, but it is one technique!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Marker Technique, March 20, 2007

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Humble Artist "Lucky" (Los Angeles, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Marker Techniques: In Combination With Mixed Media (Paperback)

The best marker technique book you can find. Very easy to follow and apply them to many different renderings. The technique shown in this book is well known to industrial designers especially Car Designers or product designers. You'll see same techniques used on beautiful Car Design Renderings from The Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA. Car designers use vellum instead of marker papers. They use both side of the vellum to create different value effect with same marker. This book will make your renderings and presentation stand out from your competition. Highly recommended for students, designers, architects and 3D artists.

5.0 out of 5 stars Markers Live!, March 19, 2011

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Theseus "theseus" (US of A) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Creative Marker Techniques: In Combination With Mixed Media (Paperback)

This book from 1990 presents the use of makers in the context of other media, demonstrating that markers hold their own against many digital illustration techniques. So, while the images created here look like, well, they're from 1990 (eg, a CD player), the craft and artistry on display is outside of time.

As the other reviewers have noted, one of the great virtues of Shimizu's book is that it presents images being created in a step-by-step fashion from concept sketch to finished piece. And Shimizu stresses the importance of sketching -- both as a step towards finished art and (more importantly) as a means to communicate how something might look from different angles to others.

Happily, the approach is grounded in basic aesthetics principles which Shimizu outlines in the first pages.

Book nitty-gritty: 132 pp large format trade paperback on heavy, glossy stock in dustjacket. Color illustrations througout. English and Japanese side-by-side with solid, readable English.