Rendering with Pen and Ink

Interesting and practical. Examples given are simple to understand. Can actually help those who want to learn.

However, a lot of dated information about drawing and rendering equipment is there (about 80 pages). I bought this to replace one I had lost. Great rendering works by Helmut Jacoby and Davis Bite, about nine in all, and these make this a worthy buy. David Gill was an Aussie practitioner and himself very good.

Must have book for all artists, architects, graphic visualizer.. vintage in many respects but a lovely book..

This book is basic and still relevant in Architecture after so many years. Specially when students start to draw in Architecture.

AmAzing book

excellent book, received on time.

excellent book

Lots of references are given which is a good thing. But has very less details about drawing different objects. It is best only for architecte students. And an okay book for industrial design students

Used this when I went to college, still very relevant now. A must have manual for pen and ink artists.

Very informative. Very useful.

This needs to be on your shelf if you study art or architecture.

Right-On...Strictly an architect instructional book- nothing else! If you're looking to add this to your library of pen and ink books highlighting the famous pen/ink illustrators that captivated the pages of books, magazines, etc. this isn't something you would want to set side-by-side with the likes of Gibson, Remington, Kent, Pyle to mention a few including Pitz illustrations to draw inspiration from. It's for the student who perhaps 30+ (plus is more like it) years ago having the spark to work in designing buildings, homes and communities, etc. and utilizing rendering techniques of that time period over a drawing board. So this book is where it once was, before the keyboard and mouse and beyond. Great manual..a dated manual. Although I did find some pages of great value in regarding something other than a feel for architecture- There's a great section on trees, something that gives plenty of ideas if you ignore the fact that within this large manual, and in this time period of manuals when this was compiled, there was a "rub-down" transfer sheet of patterns the artist could work with for the various textures. This clear transfer sheet of patterns was helpful back in the 70's for an artist as he "rubbed-down" (...adhered the texture) the desired various patterns thereby transferring a section onto his pen/ink drawing. The tree section in my estimate has clear clean ideas and shapes of trees- good for referencing the pages for inspiration. Another impressive section- although small, is a section on the use of a "stipple" brush for various textures. These are just a few pages/sections here, and do give credence to P/I renderings if one inspirers illustrations such as Pyle, Kent, etc. And, yes once upon a time this would have deserved 5 stars for a architect instructional manual. Times and techniques and dated ways of working with a T-square over a drawing board are a thing of the past.

Probably one of the best drawing books I have ever seen!