Product Description

Discover the art of rendering with markers through:
* Profiles of top rendering pros, their techniques, and examples of their best work.
* 65 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques you can use right now to improve your next design presentation.
* Specific color combinations for rendering wood, brick, foliage, skies, chrome and other materials.
* 40 Mini-Lessons with demonstrations of solutions to everyday rendering problems.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #34170 in Books
• Published on: 1992-12-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 146 pages

From the Inside Flap
Marker Magic The Rendering Problem Solver for Designers McGarry Madsen Architects, interior designers, artists, and illustrators take note—if you’ve ever found yourself searching for that creative spark that could make your design presentations take on a new life, or you need to draw a wood treatment, and you don’t know how-Marker Magic has easy-to follow solutions for all of your design problems. The book uses the most popular medium—markers—in combination with other media, and devotes special attention to hard-to-draw subjects such as wood, stone, foliage, skies, carpet, chrome, tile, and fabrics. This is not a book on principles, concepts, or theory, but a hands-on manual that presents real solutions to everyday design problems. With Marker Magic as your desk-side reference you’ll be able to improve the quality and the presentation of your drawings right away as Richard McGarry and Greg Madsen show you:

• tips, tricks, and shortcuts that will make your drawings stand out
• 40 mini-lessons, many with step-by-step demonstrations, of solutions to everyday rendering problems
• specific color combinations for help in rendering hard-to-draw items
• profiles from top professionals with examples of their best work

McGarry and Madsen also provide suggestions on how to make rendering faster and easier. If you needed to give a presentation on short notice, or are looking for new techniques, or are still learning how to draw, Marker Magic contains all the easy-to-use solutions for your rendering problems.

From the Back Cover
Discover the art of rendering with markers through:

• Profiles of top rendering pros, their techniques, and examples of their best work.
• 65 Tips, Tricks, and Techniques you can use right now to improve your next design presentation.
• Specific color combinations for rendering wood, brick, foliage, skies, chrome and other materials.
• 40 Mini-Lessons with demonstrations of solutions to everyday rendering problems.

About the Author
Richard McGarry and Greg Madsen are both partners in McGarry & Madsen, an architectural illustration and graphic design firm located in Miami Beach. Richard McGarry is the author of Tracing File for Interior and Architectural Illustration, which contains over 1,500 line drawings at different scales that cover the particular problems of making renderings of interior settings. He and Greg Madsen co-wrote Scale Elements for Design Elevations, the first guide to deal exclusively with architectural elevations, which presents over 1,700 copyright-free scale drawings.

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Customer Reviews

Disappointing
This book shows some nice examples of marker renderings BUT what it lacks is step-by-step instruction of the process. "Guest Artists" present examples of their work along with a lot of verbage, too much in fact for a book about graphics... so what you have is an end-result (example rendering/s) coupled with longwinded written descriptions about technique. Yuck. Given the glowing reviews here for this book, I was shocked at how disapponting it was. I tried to change my rating to 2-stars but apparently one cannot go back and edit that part of the review. First book I have ever returned to Amazon.

A MUST HAVE
As an interior design student, I have many books. I do not think I would have been able to obtain any skill in rendering without this book and the John Pile book. I have bought every book I could find on the subject as well as watched videos online and nothing compares to this book.

perfect/new
perfect condition. got here right away! Cost less than the college bookstore. I will definately use amazon again!