Drawing and Designing with Confidence: A Step-by-Step Guide - Hardcover

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About the Author Mike W. Lin, ASLA, is a recognized leader in architectural rendering methodology. He is the founder and director of the Mike Lin Graphic Workshop in Manhattan, Kansas, which has travelled to more than one hundred universities and many cities around the world under the sponsorship of many universities, and the AIA, ASLA, ASID, ALCA and other professional organizations. Mr. Lin holds both architecture and landscape architecture degrees and was formerly a professor at Kansas State University. He is the author of the bestselling Architectural Rendering Techniques: A Color Reference.

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The highly successful Loose with Graphics course--now available in book form for the first time! Mike Lin, ASLA Drawing and Designing with Confidence A Step-By-Step Guide Now, at a fraction of the cost of attending one of Mike Lin's enormously popular graphic workshops, you can learn his uniquely successful drawing and designing techniques. In a short time, you will find your rendering and designing skills greatly improved, as you work quickly, confidently and effectively using Lin's well-known 45 Principles of Good Graphics and Six Design Approaches. The book covers all aspects of design, graphic principles, media, types of drawings, lettering, entourage, sketching and perspective drawing techniques, and contains a wealth of rapidly absorbed information on:

• achieving a relaxed approach to drawing that uncovers your buried artistic skills
• the 45 fundamentals of good graphics, with common mistakes to avoid
• using 47 rendering techniques and types to their full advantage
• developing skills in pencil and marker lettering
• enhancing entourage techniques in people, vegetation, cars and furniture to create interest and realism
• quick and simple methods in one and two-point perspective drawing
• foolproof sketching methods
• a comprehensive design process with six design approaches and 23 design principles.

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The highly successful "Loose with Graphics" course—now available in book form for the first time! Mike Lin, ASLA Drawing and Designing with Confidence A Step-By-Step Guide Now, at a fraction of the cost of attending one of Mike Lin’s enormously popular graphic workshops, you can learn his uniquely successful drawing and designing techniques. In a short time, you will find your rendering and designing skills greatly improved, as you work quickly, confidently and effectively using Lin’s well-known "45 Principles of Good Graphics" and "Six Design Approaches." The book covers all aspects of design, graphic principles, media, types of drawings, lettering, entourage, sketching and perspective drawing techniques, and contains a wealth of rapidly absorbed information on:

• achieving a relaxed approach to drawing that uncovers your buried artistic skills
• the 45 fundamentals of good graphics, with common mistakes to avoid
• using 47 rendering techniques and types to their full advantage
• developing skills in pencil and marker lettering
• enhancing entourage techniques in people, vegetation, cars and furniture to create interest and realism
• quick and simple methods in one and two-point perspective drawing
• foolproof sketching methods
• a comprehensive design process with six design approaches and 23 design principles.