Description
Book SynopsisHybrid Drawing Techniques for Interior Design shows you a flexible and productive design workflow that starts with hand drawing and moves on to digital techniques. In this book, digital and freehand images are displayed side-by-side, so that you can choose at every step which method is best for your desired effect. You will also learn how to draw freehand using a digital tablet, and how to render perspective views, elevations and floor plans. This book includes more than 400 color images and practice exercises that can be referenced online.
Trade ReviewThis step by step approach greatly encourages the beginner and the advanced renderer to discover and utilize necessary tools to improve their skills. The attention to, and technique for placing humans within the environment along with the development of outdoor views, will promote improvement of the human connection & conceptual presentations.This resource will be extremely useful for both students and professors.
Lisa Tucker Cross, Ph.D. RID, IIDA, IAPS
Professor of Interior Design
As in his renowned classroom teaching, Jorge’s book clearly guides aspiring architects and designers to find the harmonious balance between the poetry of hand-drawing and the powerful capabilities of computerized rendering. Via a range of real-life projects including individual furniture surfaces to floor plans and elevations for hotel lobbies, offices, kitchens and other residential rooms, you’ll learn how to create dynamic, professional images for interior design or architectural presentations. Throughout the book, his insightful techniques will demonstrate how to solve various problems that may arise in the creative process without having to start over, using both physical and digital methods. Marisa Gutmacher, RISD BFA’90, BIA ‘91
This step by step approach greatly encourages the beginner and the advanced renderer to discover and utilize necessary tools to improve their skills. The attention to, and technique for placing humans within the environment along with the development of outdoor views, will promote improvement of the human connection & conceptual presentations. This resource will be extremely useful for both students and professors.
Lisa Tucker Cross, Ph.D. RID, IIDA, IAPS
Professor of Interior Design
Table of ContentsForeword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Preparing Linework and Material for Freehand and Digital Rendering. Introduction to Photoshop and Sketchbook
Chapter 2. Furniture and Small Items
Chapter 3. Soft and Hard Surfaces, Rendering Reflections, Metals and Translucent Materials
Chapter 4. Natural and Artificial Light Configurations on Floor Plans and Elevations
Chapter 5. Rendering Floor Plans and Elevations. Working with Patterns and Shadows
Chapter 6. The Human Figure
Chapter 7. Plants and Outside Views
Chapter 8. Putting Our Interiors Together
Chapter 9. Working with Architectural Renderings
Bibliography
Index
