Drawing Shortcuts: Developing Quick Drawing Skills Using Today's Technology, 2/e (Hardcover)

The updated edition of a contemporary approach to merging traditional hand drawing methods with 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional digital visualization tools.

Jim Leggitt?s Drawing Shortcuts shows how communicating with hand drawings combined with digital technology can be ingeniously simple, and this new edition makes an already popular technique even better. Completely expanded with new chapters and a wealth of supporting images, this Second Edition presents practical techniques for improving drawing efficiency and effectiveness by combining traditional hand drawing methods with the latest digital technology, including 3-D modeling with SketchUp. This book?s step-by-step approach will sharpen and streamline your techniques whether you draw for pleasure, school or your design profession.

• Easy-to-follow instructions cover every aspect from the basics of drawing?such as composition, color, shading, hatching, and perspective?up to the most current technologies
• Incorporates Google SketchUp, Google Earth, computer generated renderings, digital scanners and printers
• Features new visuals from accomplished drawing experts
• Special new ?Gallery? section highlights the creative process with step-by-step examples of drawings
• Complete coverage of the ?Overlay and Trace Method,? ?Simple Composite Method,? ?Advanced Composite Method,? and ?Digital Hybrid Drawings?
• New matrices show alternative drawing techniques for specific visual effects such as Linework and Shading, Selecting the Right Views, Perspectives and Paraline Drawings, Drawing Detail, Camera Lenses, and Drawing Tools

Generously enriched with detailed process drawings, examples, and more than 500 full-color images, Drawing Shortcuts, Second Edition will have you creating top-quality drawings faster and more effectively.

這本書是一本現代方法的更新版，將傳統手繪技巧與二維和三維數位視覺化工具相結合。Jim Leggitt的《Drawing Shortcuts》展示了如何通過手繪結合數位技術來進行溝通，這本新版使已經廣受歡迎的技巧更加出色。全面擴展了新章節和大量支援圖像，第二版介紹了結合傳統手繪方法和最新數位技術（包括使用SketchUp進行三維建模）的實用技巧，以提高繪圖效率和效果。這本書的逐步方法將使您的技巧更加精湛和高效，無論您是為了愉悅、學校還是設計專業而繪圖。

易於遵循的說明涵蓋了從繪圖基礎（如構圖、色彩、陰影、鉛筆劃和透視）到最新技術的各個方面。書中還介紹了Google SketchUp、Google Earth、電腦生成的渲染、數位掃描和打印等最新數位技術。此外，還有來自熟練繪圖專家的新視覺效果。特別的新的「畫廊」部分突出了繪圖的創作過程，並提供了逐步示例。書中還詳細介紹了「覆蓋和追蹤方法」、「簡單合成方法」、「高級合成方法」和「數位混合繪圖」等技巧。新的矩陣展示了特定視覺效果的替代繪圖技巧，例如線條和陰影、選擇正確的視角、透視和平行線繪圖、繪圖細節、相機鏡頭和繪圖工具。

《Drawing Shortcuts, Second Edition》豐富地提供了詳細的過程繪圖、示例和500多張全彩圖像，將使您更快、更有效地創作出高質量的繪圖作品。