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The key to creating a powerful drawing is to start with the right concept! In this book, sketching and painting expert Masao Yamada provides dozens of examples showing you how to establish accurate perspective guidelines and proportions for your initial pencil sketches, setting your drawings up to succeed right from the start. If a sketch's perspective and proportions are correct, your finished work will look crisp and beautiful. If not, you'll have a frustrating time trying to correct the problems at a later stage--and the finished work will never look quite right. A Beginner's Guide to Sketching Buildings & Landscapes is here to help you avoid those frustrations and set up your composition for a finished piece that will make you proud. The detailed step-by-step lessons in this indispensable guide teach you how to: Establish a composition's point of view correctly Locate the horizon line, dividing land and sky Break down complicated scenes into simple component shapes Create the right relationship between foreground and background Express 3D imagery using 2-point and 3-point perspective Experience the satisfaction of creating well-formed and well-balanced landscape and architectural illustrations of churches, castles, houses, mountains, bridges, waterways, gardens, and much more! Cover Title Page Contents Why I Wrote This Book Drawing Buildings: Which Part to Draw, and from Which Vantage Point? Chapter 1 Depicting Facades Sketching with Squares and a Central Line Depictions Using Triangles Dividing a Pentagonal Facade into Squares and Triangles Depictions Using Squares and Circles Depictions Using Squares and Triangles: Placement of Edges Chapter 2 Choosing and Placing Close-up and Distant Landscapes in a Sketch What to Omit in Close-up and Distant Landscapes Drawing Only a Close-up Landscape Contrasting Close-up and Distant Landscapes Drawing a Sweeping Field of Flowers Drawing a Castle Visible Behind Stone Walls Concerning Composition Chapter 3 Division of Ground and Sky How to Divide the Ground and Sky Center Division A 5:8 Composition An 8:5 Composition Position of the Horizon: Expansive Sky vs. Expansive Sea Compositions Divided at a Low Position (13:5) Special Compositions from a Low Position Chapter 4 Expressing Depth in One Direction Depicting a Building Facade and Creating Depth with the Foreground Depicting a Facade Viewed Slightly from the Side A Waterway Extending to the Right A Castle Tower with a Mo A Gently Curving Waterway in the Snow A Zen Garden Downtown Buildings Connected Arches A Garden Extending Into the Distance Chapter 5 Determining a 3D Expression with the First Two Directional Diagonal Lines Buildings with No Visible Ground Buildings with Colonnades Traditional Japanese Architecture: A Temple Hall with Tiled Roof Traditional Japanese Architecture: An Entrance Gate Buildings with Complex Depth A Fork in the Road Expressing the Size of a Building Chapter 6 The First Sketch Lines Determine the Look of a Landscape Viewed from Above or Below Looking up at a Facade Looking up at a House on a Hill Looking up at a Church Looking up at a Torii Shrine Gate Looking up at a Mountain Looking down a Hill at a House Looking down from High Ground Looking down from a Tower Looking down over a Coastal Village Chapter 7 Defined by the First Few Lines: Bridges, Steps, Mountains and Rocks A Simple Stone Bridge A Multispan Arch Bridge A Suspension Bridge A Bridge Reflected in the Water Steps A Towering Mountain A Mountain Range Countryside and Mountains Placement of Rocks Copyright Backcover