100 Buildings & Architectural Forms

100 Buildings & Architectural Forms Synopsis

Featuring more than 600 sketches depicting a vast array of architecturally and culturally significant buildings, bridges, towers, monuments, and more, Draw Like an Artist: 100 Buildings and Architectural Forms is a must-have visual reference for student and aspiring architects, artists, illustrators, and urban sketchers.

This contemporary step-by-step guidebook demonstrates fundamental art and architectural concepts like proportion, perspective, and spatial relationships as you learn to draw a wide range of important residential, commercial, historic, and cultural buildings, bridges, towers, and other structures from all over the world and from ancient to modern-all shown from a variety of perspectives and scales. Each set of illustrations takes you from beginning sketch lines to a finished drawing. Author David Drazil's classic drawing style will make this a go-to sourcebook for years to come.

Learn how to establish basic shapes; articulate lines for structure, forms, and shading; and add defining details by drawing these celebrated sites and many others:

• Residential: Fallingwater in the US and the Silo in Copenhagen
• Commercial: Dancing House in Prague and Sugamo Shinkin Bank in Tokyo
• Monuments/Sacred: Stonehenge in the UK and the Cathedral of Brasilia
• Bridges: Jade Belt Bridge in Beijing and the Sydney Harbor Bridge in Sydney, Australia