Hybrid Drawing Techniques for Interior Design

Hybrid Drawing Techniques for Interior Design shows you a flexible and productive design workflow that starts with hand drawing and moves on to digital techniques. In this book, digital and freehand images are displayed side-by-side, so that you can choose at every step which method is best for your desired effect. You will also learn how to draw freehand using a digital tablet, and how to render perspective views, elevations and floor plans. This book includes more than 400 color images and practice exercises that can be referenced online.

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1. Preparing Linework and Material for Freehand and Digital Rendering. Introduction to Photoshop and Sketchbook

Chapter 2. Furniture and Small Items

Chapter 3. Soft and Hard Surfaces, Rendering Reflections, Metals and Translucent Materials

Chapter 4. Natural and Artificial Light Configurations on Floor Plans and Elevations

Chapter 5. Rendering Floor Plans and Elevations. Working with Patterns and Shadows

Chapter 6. The Human Figure

Chapter 7. Plants and Outside Views

Chapter 8. Putting Our Interiors Together

Chapter 9. Working with Architectural Renderings

Bibliography

Index

Jorge Paricio Garcia is an industrial designer, a full-time faculty member in the Interior Design Program at The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online Division and a critic at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He teaches design basics, drawing and rendering.