How to Draw Noir Comics: The Art and Technique of Visual Storytelling is an instructional book based on the cinematic, high contrast noir style of acclaimed comic book and graphic novel illustrator, Shawn Martinbrough. Martinbrough’s work has been published by DC Comics, Vertigo and Marvel Comics, illustrating stories ranging from Batman to the X-Men. This is his first book, released through Watson-Guptill Publications and The Nielsen Company. In How to Draw Noir Comics, Martinbrough shows how the expert use of the color black is critical for drawing noir comics. He demonstrates how to set a mood, design characters and locations,[Read More]

One of the most important skills for any type of designer to be adept at is drawing; architects especially must be proficient draftsmen (or women). Encyclopedic in its scope, this visual resource book presents a major survey of design-drawing styles and techniques. Packed with more than 700 illustrations, this unique reference guide includes such chapters as Tool Fundamentals, Linear Perspective Drawing, 3-D Modeling, and Diagramming. The drawings found herein represent a large number of diverse styles, and included is work of noted architects such as Michael Graves and I.M. Pei.[Read More]

The big news with Visio 2000–as with most newly refurbished business applications from recent years–is the increased Internet connectivity possible in the new edition. Visio, a program that lets you graphically and visually represent ideas, offers VML (Vector Markup Language) to images from within the tool. In turn, you can easily import those marked-up pieces into Web documents. (Visio 2000 also supports JPG and GIF, formats that are probably easier to work in for most Web veterans.) For business workstations based on Microsoft products, Visio easily integrates into each user’s environment and existing applications. You can edit Visio objects inside[Read More]

The updated edition of the bestselling guide to creating perspective drawings quickly and easily Basic Perspective Drawing, Fourth Edition continues a long tradition as an accessible, visual guide to help students and professional artists, illustrators, designers, and architects gain a firm and thorough grasp of the important principles and techniques of perspective drawing. Logically moving from simple concepts to specific tools and methods, it uses accessible illustrations to show step by step how to construct perspective views, with graphic examples covering every key part of the process. This updated Fourth Edition features new material on aerial[Read More]