Digital drawing for landscape architecture - Bradley Cantrell

For a hundred years, pencil, pen, markers, and watercolor have been the principal tools of representation for landscape architects and urban planners. Today, those handpowered aids have been replaced by an array of digital tools.
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture
bridges the gap between the traditional analog and the new digital tools and shows you how to apply timeless concepts of representation to enhance your design work in digital media.

Building on the triedandtrue principles of analog representation,
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture
explores specific techniques for creating landscape representation digitally. It explains the similarities and differences between analog and digital rendering, and then walks you through the steps of creating digitally rendered plans, perspectives, and diagrams. Youll explore:

• Computing basics




• Raster and vector images




• Setting up the document




• Base imagery and scaling




• Handdrawn linework and diagrams




• Text, leaders, and page layout




• Color, shading, and textures




• Creating a section elevation




• Perspective drawing



• Techniques for using the newest vers ions of Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and Acrobat as well as older versions

With more than 500 fullcolor drawings and photographs alongside proven techniques,
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture
will help you enhance your skills through a unique marriage of contemporary methods and traditional rendering techniques.