The New Complete Illustration Guide
Subtitle: The Ultimate Trace File for Architects, Designers, Artists, and Students
Contributors: Nancie West Swanberg (Illustrator)
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780442022396
First sentence: This chapter contains a variety of some of the best illustrations created by past masters of renderings.
Description: The New Complete Illustrated Guide contains not only thousands of illustrations to copy, scan, or use as a reference, but it also has a complete how-to section with helpful hints on watercolor illustration, perspective, and picture composition. Ample illustrations - created by the author and also gathered from other resources - are used to illustrate the points being covered.

Within the pages of The New Complete Illustration Guide, you'll find a wealth of materials that you'll be able to use daily in your architectural renderings and sketches, including a broad selection of foreground and background materials; a wide range of trees, plants, and people presented in a variety of scales; hundreds of vehicles - from current models to classics, from airplanes to boats; and over 300 full-color illustrations of trees, plants, people, and vehicles.

Also included is detailed step-by-step guidance on a variety of topics including perspective, circles and ellipses, watercolor rendering, glass indication, and drawing people.