Marker Magic: The Rendering Problem Solver For Designers

Marker Magic: The Rendering Problem Solver for Designers

From the Inside FlapMarker Magic The Rendering Problem Solver for Designers McGarry Madsen Architects, interior designers, artists, and illustrators take note-if you?e ever found yourself searching for that creative spark that could make your design presentations take on a new life, or you need to draw a wood treatment, and you don? know how-Marker Magic has easy-to follow solutions for all of your design problems. The book uses the most popular medium-markers-in combination with other media, and devotes special attention to hard-to-draw subjects such as wood, stone, foliage, skies, carpet, chrome, tile, and fabrics. This is not a book on principles, concepts, or theory, but a hands-on manual that presents real solutions to everyday design problems. With Marker Magic as your desk-side reference you?l be able to improve the quality and the presentation of your drawings right away as Richard McGarry and Greg Madsen show you: tips, tricks, and shortcuts that will make your drawings stand out 40 mini-lessons, many with step-by-step demonstrations, of solutions to everyday rendering problems specific color combinations for help in rendering hard-to-draw items profiles from top professionals with examples of their best work McGarry and Madsen also provide suggestions on how to make rendering faster and easier. If you needed to give a presentation on short notice, or are looking for new techniques, or are still learning how to draw, Marker Magic contains all the easy-to-use solutions for your rendering problems.Discover the art of rendering with markers through:* Profiles of top rendering pros, their techniques, and examples of their best work.* 65 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques you can use right now to improve your next design presentation.* Specific color combinations for rendering wood, brick, foliage, skies, chrome and other materials.* 40 Mini-Lessons with demonstrations of solutions to everyday rendering problems.From the Back CoverDiscover the art of rendering with markers through: Profiles of top rendering pros, their techniques, and examples of their best work. 65 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques you can use right now to improve your next design presentation. Specific color combinations for rendering wood, brick, foliage, skies, chrome and other materials. 40 Mini-Lessons with demonstrations of solutions to everyday rendering problems.About the AuthorRichard McGarry and Greg Madsen are both partners in McGarry & Madsen, an architectural illustration and graphic design firm located in Miami Beach. Richard McGarry is the author of Tracing File for Interior and Architectural Illustration, which contains over 1,500 line drawings at different scales that cover the particular problems of making renderings of interior settings. He and Greg Madsen co-wrote Scale Elements for Design Elevations, the first guide to deal exclusively with architectural elevations, which presents over 1,700 copyright-free scale drawings.