Sketching and Rendering in Pencil - Softcover

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ...but in addition the designer should consider how the structure will appear under the vertical rays of the sun at midday or the slanting rays of early morning or late afternoon, and should, in many cases, make special studies with the shadows shown as they would exist in the completed building. The author has in mind one particular public building which was most attractive in the preliminary drawings, with its shadows cast in the conventional manner. Unfortunately the building is so situated that for months at a time the sun seldom shines on the main facade and in the evening this facade is especially uninteresting when the bright light from the street lamps entirely eliminates the cornice shadows. Obviously it is impossible to foresee and prevent all such unpleasant appearances, but the student who has learned to study and observe light effects and has drawn much from nature will find the knowledge gained from this work of great assistance to him if he is called upon to do original work in design, both in avoiding such unpleasant results as we have mentioned and in making the greatest use of the lighting conditions as they exist. Such knowledge is of great importance, too, when one is called upon to make renderings of proposed buildings or sketches from memory or the imagination. Do not for a moment think that it is our intention to condemn the practice of casting shadows on elevations in the conventional 45-degree manner, for that is not the case, as even the student of freehand drawing can gain considerable knowledge useful in sketching through a course in shades and shadows. What we do wish to make clear is that the draftsman or designer who studies light and shade directly from nature does not allow himself to be handicapped by the...