


This book intended to develop a student studying architecture to demonstrate artistic skills in the core course needed to become an architect (Architectural Graphics), most especially in the application of colours. It is a book for Architects, Illustrators, Artists and Interior Designers. It contains about 45 illustration pictures of buildings rendered with colours, pen and ink.

Patel (Emeritus Professor of Architecture from Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee – Oldest Technical Institution of Asia). The Rudiment of Architectural Rendering (Pen and Ink, Colours), is a practical Architectural rendering book edited by Prof. Best of all, Arthur Guptill enriches the text with drawings of his own.

Wilkinson, Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue, and Birch Burdette Long. The book is profusely illustrated with over 300 drawings that include the work of famous illustrators and renderers of architectural subjects such as Rockwell Kent, Charles Dana Gibson, James Montgomery Flagg, Willy Pogany, Reginald Birch, Harry Clarke, Edward Penfield, Joseph Clement Coll, F.L. Contents include a review of materials and tools of rendering handling the pen and building tones value studies kinds of outline and their uses drawing objects in light and shade handling groups of objects basic principles of composition using photographs, study of the work of well-known artists on-the-spot sketching representing trees and other landscape features drawing architectural details methods of architectural rendering examination of outstanding examples of architectural rendering solving perspective and other rendering problems handling interiors and their accessories and finally, special methods of working with pen including its use in combination with other media. It is of particular interest to architects, interior designers, landscape architects, industrial designers, illustrators, and renderers. This is a book designed to delight and instruct anyone who draws with pen and ink, from the professional artist to the amateur and hobbyist. Guptill's classic Rendering in Pen and Ink has long been regarded as the most comprehensive book ever published on the subject of ink drawing.
