PERSPECTIVE SKETCHING I dedicate this book to my parents Alvaro and Luisa, who taught me how to be creative and see the world under a diferent set of eyes. And to my sons, Thomas and Simon, for showing me the wonders of play. © 2015 by Rockport Publishers Text © 2015 Jorge Paricio First published in the United States of America in 2015 by Rockport Publishers, a member of Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc. 100 Cummings Center Suite 406-L Beverly, Massachusetts 01915-6101 Telephone: (978) 282-9590 Fax: (978) 283-2742 www.rockpub.com Visit RockPaperInk.com to share your opinions, creations, and passion for design. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission of the copyright owners. All images in this book have been reproduced with the knowledge and prior consent of the artists concerned, and no responsibility is accepted by producer, publisher, or printer for any infringement of copyright or otherwise, arising from the contents of this publication. Every efort has been made to ensure that credits accurately comply with information supplied. We apologize for any inaccuracies that may have occurred and will resolve inaccurate or missing information in a subsequent reprinting of the book. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ISBN: 978-1-63159-032-0 Digital edition published in 2015 eISBN: 978-1-62788-365-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data available Cover and book design: Traic Design Consultants Illustrations: Jorge Paricio, except those noted in the Contributor Directory, on page 218. Printed in China PERSPECTIVE SKETCHING Freehand and Digital Drawing Techniques for Artists & Designers Jorge Paricio PREFACE I have drawn for as long as I can remember. I grew up in a family of artists where any drawing and painting medium was always handy, and where experimentation was always encouraged. While in art school I would visit the Prado Museum, in Madrid, to admire the works of Velazquez, Greco, and the early Renaissance pieces, and I fell in love with the use of line weight and color. Back in my father’s printmaking class I still remember perusing through the school’s collection of prints and grabbing a magnifying glass to admire up-close the line work of Hokusai, Piranessi, Rembrandt, Dürer, or Goya. I started thinking about a book like this one when I prepared my Ph.D. dissertation back in 2004, titled “Freehand Drawing in Industrial Design,” and I am grateful for the good advice and direction I got from my thesis advisor Manuel Alvarez Junco. Ten years later, I ind that much of what I had written in those pages still holds true: drawing and perspective sketching is a core skill that artists and designers have to nurture constantly. Finally, I am indebted to so many talented students that wanted to share their work in this publication. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 8 CHAPTER 1 10 10 Scale Drawing 22 Theory of Linear Perspective 24 Set Up a View; Compose a Scene; Finding the Eye Level 49 Contour Line Drawing 58 Tone and Texture CHAPTER 2 76 76 Intuitive Perspective 99 Dynamic Views 105 Concept Sketching 124 Narrative Sketching 136 Shooting Boards CHAPTER 3 141 141 Digital Block-outs 159 Photoshop Painting 212 Glossary 218 Contributor Directory 219 Acknowledgments 219 About the Author 220 Index INTRODUCTION This book is a tool for designers, Knowing how to sketch can provide artists, students, and anybody designers with the necessary conidence interested in the visual arts to to evolve an idea progressively in stages and gives them the muscle to “see” improve their sketching. It can be their creation quickly on paper, without read from beginning to end, as the having to invest in three-dimensional content is revealed progressively, or models or computer models. Sketching you can dip in and out of chapters is often done on the ly, allowing the to find a particular area of interest. designer to capture her initial thoughts and concepts before actually executing You will not ind a collection of polished a plan. They are kept as proof of the drawings elegantly displayed but rather evolution of a concept or shown only sketches and renderings that are to other designers in the oice. carefully explained step by step, making sure every major milestone Sketching is not a linear process. is covered. The same way that a good It is a journey that can have good and cookbook explains every step of a bad results. For that reason, sketching recipe, this book analyzes all the needs to be done with conidence and necessary stages that are required with a sense of freedom. Failing and to complete a sketch or a rendering, succeeding in sketching go hand in broken into a series of small topics. hand, and just like anything else in life, sketching will get progressively better with practice. It is a skill that needs constant honing. The more we practice it, the better we become at it, but it requires time and dedication. The exercises provided in these pages will help you hone your drawing skills by practicing the basics of composition and scale. 8 PERSPECTIVE SKETCHING INTRODUCTION 9