is one that I've found to be very useful

but it's fairly basic.

funny in high school we used this
by the same author, i think its quite a standard. very dated, but in a way that is now cool again.

What? It is possible to do amazing, evocative, and sexy perspective without the computer? Weird. I didn’t think so myself until I saw these. I was used to the shitty colored pencil drawings produced by kids in studio.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73172555@N00/455296521/in/set-72157600064338895/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73172555@N00/455282296/in/set-72157600064338895/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73172555@N00/455282328/in/set-72157600064338895/

Many more by Rudolph here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/73172555@N00/sets/

Skim through these to find great examples to aspire to.

at umich, we are lucky enough to admire these.

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cayne1:

assuming you already understand the basics of how construct perspectives and establish vantage points which offer the most interesting views of whatever it is you are drawing, I would recommend you start in simple fashion. invest the money in the Case Study Houses book by Elizabeth Smith. This book is fantastic, not only for the architecture, but also the wonderful drawings within by Neutra, Ellwood, Koenig + others. This is old school stuff, but remarkably beautiful. iheart offered some examples of Rudolph, so I would follow his lead and recommend the book entitled Paul Rudolph: The Florida Houses. Again, great architecture but equally wonderful drawings. To bring this basic understanding of hand drawing into the 21st century, I would review the work of Neutelings Riedijk and Stephane Beal for some very clever yet telling drawings that merge hand drawing with computer images. Beyond that, I would recommend checking out some of the drawings of a guy named Brian Andrews, who once partnered with Jude LeBlanc. Many of his drawings still appear on Jude's website. Hope this helps.

http://www.judeleblancarchitect.com/Home.htm

tenn - I do indeed know how to build perspectives, just looking to flush things out with some style.

Thanks to all for the great suggestions. You are all rockstars.

i would also suggest:


http://www.amazon.com/Drawing-Designing-Confidence-Step-Step/dp/0471283908/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254446212&sr=1-7


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http://www.amazon.com/Freehand-Drawing-Architects-Interior-Designers/dp/0393731790/ref=pd_sim_b_33


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http://www.amazon.com/Architectural-Drawing-Visual-Compendium-Methods/dp/0471793663/ref=pd_sim_b_31


there are some fantastic little goodies in these books. worth having, imho.

addictionbomb - what are those?

The power of 3D is not a single rendering, it is the versatility. You can create endless images from one 3D model.


I loved drawing the ink on mylar or nicely shaded pencil, but they just waste too much time and you are locked into one view, which you cannot change later on.


If you must, I'd go buy FLW's drawing/sketch book. It is huge and he was simply amazing.

sevensixfive: couple of hand drawings by perry kulper. quite possibly one of the best teachers at the umich m.arch program...

Amazing. Thanks for posting.

"Eye Candy" http://www.archinect.com/forum/threads.php?id=67586_0_42_0_C

addictionbomb - those are pretty amazing, thanks for the post

trace - I realize that the computer has all sorts of benefits, and I'm not a total luddite. I will mass things out in the computer and find that 'ideal' perspective, but stopping there and rendering by hand from that point on is way faster for me.
CAD, Revit, Rhino, Photoshop, et.al. have their place, and bravo to you and anyone else that finds them faster or superior.
I happen to think -that for me-hand rendering is not only faster, but that it produces a more compelling final image.

Thanks again for all the suggestions.

There's a place for everything, just saying don't dismiss the 3D until you at least master it. Dunno, but I design in 3D, so that is just natural for me (and before that, I design with physical models).


Check out FLW, his book and drawings are amazing. The diversity of the media he mastered is amazing. I still think his composition is the best - they way he framed the images. True art.

http://www.amazon.com/Frank-Wright-Drawings-Brooks-Pfeiffer/dp/0810981432


Libeskind's ink on mylar were amazing, Hadid's paintings of course, Mayne's collages, Eisenman's diagrams. Love them all and studied each one.

Nothing better than to study the best to learn the most.

I agree with you on FLW, he had an amazing style. Didn't even use his computer either.

note to self: check out perry kulper.

The drawings that issued from Wright's office(s) over the course of sixty years are quite impressive. What is still unclear is who drew them. Perhaps the most impressive renderings in the early years were produced by Marion Mahony, in a style strongly influenced by the Japanese art that Wright so admired. These are variously in pencil and ink, with colored pencil or watercolor wash, primarily. For the Wasmuth Portfolio, Wright and son Lloyd, and others, working in a rented flat in Florence, completed lovely ink line drawings that blend seamlessly with ones done earlier in Chicago by Mahony. In the middle years, several hands, including Lloyd and John (Wright's other architect son) and Rudolph Schindler, among others. And in the Usonian period, Wright seems to have left most of the presentation work to apprentices, sometimes adding foliage himself -- to drawings which of course he directed as to composition and style. (His own hand is sometimes seen in hasty and crude corrections to the work of others; no work, no matter how finished, was immune from his attacks: overdrawing, revisions, and notes.) The prevailing technique here was colored pencil -- fields of color rendered in close-set ruled parallel strokes. John (Jack) Howe was the master of this technique, and produced the richest and finest of these drawings -- dozens if not hundreds of them.