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Creative Marker Techniques: In Combination With Mixed Media

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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!

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.

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.

I'm in my mid-30s and have dabbled in all sorts of media. I've rekindled my love for marker illustrations primarily because the materials needed are so portable. No water cups or brushes to bring and rinse, no palettes, no cleaning!! Most of my stuff is done at a Starbucks in fact. Recently, I've been looking for other sources to enhance what I already do and to simply see what artists of the past have already done with markers. I've purchased almost ALL of the marker rendering books on Amazon. All are dated, mainly because everyone uses Photoshop and Painter to do comps nowadays. When this book came in the mail it blew me away. The covers of all 3 of his books speak for themselves. Markers were primarily used to QUICKLY and ROUGHLY illustrate an idea/concept. As a result, ALL of the marker rendering books display ONLY "rough" applications of the medium. Yoshiharu Shimizu is the ONLY author who clearly demonstrates a "cleaned up" marker illustration. Certain materials and techniques are required if you want to achieve a finished look. Get THIS book and his other three books if you want your pieces to step up. The subject matter may be dated but get the book for the valuable techniques to do your own stuff. His books tend to be bilingual but ask your sellers to make certain they include English text.

Well, I've searched for many, MANY, books and when I found this one I couldn't belive on it! It shows marker techniques very simple to use and step by step. But I'm still a student of architecture, so it's also good for those who already knows a little. It's woderful for those that like design! ^^