Drawing ideas : a hand-drawn approach for better design

✍ Scribed by Bardel, William; Baskinger, Mark

• Publisher: Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony;Watson-Guptill Publications
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 304
• Edition: First edition
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book focuses on the three key types of drawing, explanatory sketches, notational sketches and visual narratives that help designers think through and communicate their ideas. Through these three fundamentals, Drawing Ideas provides a thorough course in creating clear graphic layouts and diagrams, including expressive human forms, thumbnailing a process, adding effective colour and text and more. In addition, a drawing boot camp provides a refesher course in accurately drawing geometric forms. By getting back to the basics, readers will not only benefit from updated freehand drawing skills, but will also succeed in presenting and explaining their drawings and designs to others. Read more...

Abstract:

Focuses on the three key types of drawing, explanatory sketches, notational sketches and visual narratives that help designers think through and communicate their ideas. Through these three fundamentals, this title provides a course in creating clear graphic layouts and diagrams, including expressive human forms, and thumbnailing a process. Read more...

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Pencils before pixels --
Sketching + drawing basics : Planning your drawings
Preparing to draw
Materials --
Drawing boot camp : Rectilinear forms
Curvilinear forms, planes + arrows
Rotational forms
The human figure
Hands + integration
Rendering forms --
Drawing to clarify your own thinking : Recording + exploring ideas with notational sketching
Seeing with notational sketching
Thinking with notational sketching
Best practices for effective notational sketches --
Drawing to explain your ideas to others : Planning your explanatory sketch
Choosing a graphic structure
Composing a visual layout
Detail features of an effective explanatory sketch --
Workshop: team drawing : Strategies for collaborative design --
Drawing to tell a visual story : Planning visual narratives
Preparing to draw visual narratives
Approaches to structuring visual narratives.

✦ Subjects

Drawing -- Technique. Visual communication -- Technique. Skizzentechnik. Technisches Zeichnen. drawing / tegning / technique / teknikker / visuel kommunikation / håndtegning / hand-drawn sketch