Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms: Step-by-Step Realistic Line Drawing - A Sourcebook for Aspiring Artists Designers in Bloomington, MN

Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of architecturally and culturally significant buildings, bridges, towers, monuments, and more,
Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms
is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring architects, artists, illustrators, and urban sketchers.
This contemporary
step-by-step guidebook
demonstrates
fundamental art and architectural concepts
like proportion, perspective, and spatial relationships as you
learn to draw a wide range of important residential, commercial, historic, and cultural buildings, bridges, towers, and other structures from all over the world
and
from ancient to modern
—all shown from a variety of perspectives and scales. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author David Drazil’s classic drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.
Learn how to
establish basic shapes
;
articulate lines for structure, forms, and shading
; and
add defining details
by drawing
these celebrated sites and many others
:
Residential:
Fallingwater in the US and the Silo in Copenhagen
Commercial:
Dancing House in Prague and Sugamo Shinkin Bank in Tokyo
Monuments/Sacred:
Stonehenge in the UK and the Cathedral of Brasilia
Bridges:
Jade Belt Bridge in Beijing and the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Sydney, Australia
is a library essential for any artist or architect who’s interested in learning how to draw and explore the underlying design principles of influential constructions.
The books in the
Draw Like an Artist series
are richly visual references for learning how to draw classic subjects realistically through hundreds of step-by-step images created by expert artists and illustrators.