Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture Paperback - 2014 - 2nd Edition

The ASLA award-winning guide to digital rendering, updated with the latest software capabilities

Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture, Second Edition bridges the gap between analog and digital tools, employing timeless concepts of representation to enhance digital design. This second edition includes new information on time-based imagery and tools, integration techniques, and automation, with over fifty new examples. All screen images have been updated to align with the latest software releases, providing an up-to-the-minute tutorial for creating digitally rendered plans, elevations, perspectives, and diagrams.

Digital rendering is faster, more efficient, and more flexible than traditional rendering techniques. This award-winning resource provides comprehensive guidance toward the techniques and tools most commonly used, with a reader-friendly tutorial approach.

• Compare analog and digital renderings, and learn the basics of digital drawing
• Design a custom workflow, with guidance toward scaling, automation, and more
• Diagram with linework, symbols, and text, plus more advanced techniques
• Build renderings and elevations using textures, brushes, and different shading and blending techniques
• Create drawings from models, or develop a 3D object from a site photo

Digital tools have largely replaced pens and markers, but traditional concepts still apply. For maximizing efficiency without sacrificing quality, Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture, Second Edition provides practical guidance and expert insight.