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Drawing the Landscape, 2nd Edition [Paperback]

Chip Sullivan (Author)
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0471292044 978-0471292043 August 9, 1997 2
Drawing the Landscape Second Edition If you want to approach drawing as a means to a better understanding of the natural and built environment and one’s own creative potential, Chip Sullivan’s Drawing the Landscape offers the inspiration and the tools. The Second Edition of this useful book helps you unlock your creative potential, cultivate your own personal form of expression,and prepare professional graphic presentations in landscape architecture and architecture. From quick sketches to highly finished works in various media, Drawing the Landscape presents a broad range of ways to render the natural and the built environment. The book covers the basics of sketching the landscape and achieving convincing perspective drawings, and also introduces innovative freehand drawing techniques that add a more creative dimension to your work. Additionally, it discusses the philosophy of drawing as a method to enhance your observational ability. But this book offers more than technical instruction—its emphasis on individuality and artistic experimentation distinguishes it from other art and design books currently on the market. The author discusses equipment, techniques, tones, textures,and different types of drawing used to compose the landscape, but also recommends drawing practices,such as keeping a daybook, that keep the creative juices flowing. The Second Edition of Drawing the Landscape updates every chapter of the popular First Edition, and features:
  • a new chapter entitled "The Figure in the Landscape"
  • a new color insert
  • freehand perspective techniques
  • more examples of final drawings
  • practical group visualization exercises that facilitate the book’s use in the classroom.
Illustrated with the author’s own highly acclaimed freehand drawings, each chapter of Drawing the Landscape presents practical examples, step-by-step exercises, and suggestions for further reading. The book offers solid advice about preparing design projects for professional competition. Whether you are a landscape architecture professional, architect, designer, artist, illustrator, or student, Drawing the Landscape gives you the skills and confidence to realize your creative potential.


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Drawing the Landscape offers the tools to approach drawing as a means to a better understanding of the natural and built environment. This Second Edition is complete with a brand new color section and a section on drawing the human figure, and contains the author's newest techniques and drawings. Illustrated with the author's own highly-acclaimed freehand drawings, each chapter of presents practical examples, step-by-step exercises, and suggestions for further reading. The book also offers solid advice about preparing design projects for professional competition.

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Drawing the Landscape Second Edition If you want to approach drawing as a means to a better understanding of the natural and built environment and one’s own creative potential, Chip Sullivan’s Drawing the Landscape offers the inspiration and the tools. The Second Edition of this useful book helps you unlock your creative potential, cultivate your own personal form of expression,and prepare professional graphic presentations in landscape architecture and architecture. From quick sketches to highly finished works in various media, Drawing the Landscape presents a broad range of ways to render the natural and the built environment. The book covers the basics of sketching the landscape and achieving convincing perspective drawings, and also introduces innovative freehand drawing techniques that add a more creative dimension to your work. Additionally, it discusses the philosophy of drawing as a method to enhance your observational ability. But this book offers more than technical instruction—its emphasis on individuality and artistic experimentation distinguishes it from other art and design books currently on the market. The author discusses equipment, techniques, tones, textures,and different types of drawing used to compose the landscape, but also recommends drawing practices,such as keeping a daybook, that keep the creative juices flowing. The Second Edition of Drawing the Landscape updates every chapter of the popular First Edition, and features:
  • a new chapter entitled "The Figure in the Landscape"
  • a new color insert
  • freehand perspective techniques
  • more examples of final drawings
  • practical group visualization exercises that facilitate the book’s use in the classroom.
Illustrated with the author’s own highly acclaimed freehand drawings, each chapter of Drawing the Landscape presents practical examples, step-by-step exercises, and suggestions for further reading. The book offers solid advice about preparing design projects for professional competition. Whether you are a landscape architecture professional, architect, designer, artist, illustrator, or student, Drawing the Landscape gives you the skills and confidence to realize your creative potential.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 336 pages
  • Publisher: Wiley; 2 edition (August 9, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0471292044
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471292043
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.6 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #158,216 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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55 of 57 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The Essential Tutorial for Improving Your Renderings, August 12, 2000
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"geoffolson" (seattle, wa United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Drawing the Landscape, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
Chip Sulivan's step by step instruction guides the reader to see the underlying structure in each of his renderings. This insight reviels an efficient method of organizing profesional quality landscape plans. His more informal sketchs show how to quickly get a feel for site illustration.

As a landscape design professional, I recomend this book to my peers and to those new to rendering the landscape. I am confident that after studying this text, anyone would be able to better comunicate their designs.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Using as Text, November 4, 2006
This review is from: Drawing the Landscape (Paperback)
Wonderful book! We're currently using it in our beginning studio class. Sullivan has a wonderful sense of humor, good skill building exercises and really good graphics. Highly recommend it for anyone wanting how to draw the landscape.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars , November 9, 2006
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This book serves as a comprehensive reference for ways of thinking about drawing, applications of different media, the creative environment, drawing exercises, creating textures, shadows, and trees, composing the drawing, perspective drawing, plan, elevation, section, axonometric and isometric drawing, drawing the figure, and layout.
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First Sentence:
Why do we draw? Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
light construction lines, leaf gesture, paraline drawing, shadowed edge, perspective grid, paper stump, landscape drawing, kneaded eraser, measured plan, landscape composition
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Kathryn Drinkhouse, Charles Burchfield, New York, Catherine Harris, Frank James, Freehand Perspective Drawing, University of California, The Creative Environment, Claude Lorrain, Composing the Final Drawing, Steven Brooks, Leonardo da Vinci, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Sasaki Associates, Tony Whall, Big Daddy, College of Environmental Design Documents Collection, Garrett Eckbo, Hans Hofmann, Robert Henri, Salvador Dali, Annie Amundsen, Italian Renaissance, Joseph Slusky, Ken Smith
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