Manual of Graphic Techniques 2.

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Even the most experienced architects, graphic designers, and artists have sometimes been baffled by the mystery that tends to surround the image-making process. In Manual of Graphic Techniques 2 there are hundreds of ideas and methods for creating visually effective and convincing artwork. Specifically developed as a companion volume to its forerunner, Manual of Graphic Techniques 1, this manual begins by explaining the basic ingredients of images, together with techniques to assemble them and an understanding of visual response patterns in viewers. Other sections concentrate on the selection of the right graphic vehicle and appropriate medium for potent artwork and its intended message. Also included are easy-to-follow methods for rapidly creating professional-looking design graphics and sections concentrating on the range of representational modes-with emphasis on perspective- and a step-by-step review of the characteristic effects of various rendering techniques Each page is a... Tovább

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Even the most experienced architects, graphic designers, and artists have sometimes been baffled by the mystery that tends to surround the image-making process. In Manual of Graphic Techniques 2 there are hundreds of ideas and methods for creating visually effective and convincing artwork. Specifically developed as a companion volume to its forerunner, Manual of Graphic Techniques 1, this manual begins by explaining the basic ingredients of images, together with techniques to assemble them and an understanding of visual response patterns in viewers. Other sections concentrate on the selection of the right graphic vehicle and appropriate medium for potent artwork and its intended message. Also included are easy-to-follow methods for rapidly creating professional-looking design graphics and sections concentrating on the range of representational modes-with emphasis on perspective- and a step-by-step review of the characteristic effects of various rendering techniques Each page is a self-contained package of information-with text drawings, and special advice-on such topics as: * How to Create Focal Points * How the Eye Scans Images * Peep-Show Graphics * Exploded Images v. V? §f«"'< * Wi • Freehand Hatching Techniques • Some Quick Aerosol Spray Color Effects • How to Produce Composite Elevations • How to Produce a Photomontage • Experimenting with Overlays • How to Make an Exhibition Panel Manual of Graphic Techniques 2 is a unique reference for professionals and an invaluable guide for beginning artists and designers, small businessmen, church and community organizations, and anyone involved in the preparation of display material. Tom Porter, artist and senior lecturer in graphics at Oxford Polytechnic's Department of Architecture, has presented many lectures and graphics workshops in design institutions in the United States and the United Kingdom. He is also the author of How Architects Visualize, coeditor of Color for Architecture, consultant to Color, and coauthor of Manual of Graphic Techniques 1. Sue Goodman is an architect in private practice, a freelance illustrator and graphic designer, and a part-time design teacher. She has also researched the effects of color in architectural space, and her findings have been published in the British Journal of Psychology, Vissza