Good sketching starts with good foundations. Often challenging and overwhelming for sketchers, the fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses simple drawings and steps to explain perspective concepts in a practical and useful way for drawing on location. Most books are either too abstract or don't provide enough information that relates to what you actually do when you're out in the busy, wide world about to start a drawing.

Where do you start? How do you edit what you see to flatten and reduce it on your paper? How does perspective work? The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective helps you learn to think like an architect, to draw buildings and spaces by reducing what you see to simple, basic shapes, then adding layers in simple steps, and finally finishing your sketch with detail, tone and colour, in accurate perspective. Full of helpful tips, architect and illustrator, Stephanie Bower, even breaks down sketches to show you how to create them! Once you understand perspective, it will change the way you see the world: you'll see perspective everywhere. Some of the key concepts explored in this volume are:

Publisher: Quarry