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Marker Magic: The Rendering Problem Solver for Designers

by Richard M. McGarry, Greg Madsen

ISBN-10: 9780471284345
ISBN-10: 0-471-28434-3
ISBN-13: 9780471284345
ISBN-13: 978-0-471-28434-5
Hardcover
1992-12-01
Wiley


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

Marker Magic-wonderful textbook, but great read as well
I was impressed with the writing style of this book, it was not boring and provided several full page examples as well as techniques for making it in the designing field. I was assigned this as a textbook, but I am pleased to review that it is a fantastic book!

Disappointingly light on actual instruction--a poor choice for students
I was very disappointed in the content of this book. Fully half of this (quite thin) book is taken up with profiles of professional renderers, showing examples of their work with brief comments about what they did to create a drawing--nothing instructional, just general remarks on the finished product. The remainder is the "problem-solving" promised by the title, but there's just so little there--a few techniques, each given a page or two with little or no step-by-step instruction, and nothing to connect the disparate "problems" together. The overall feeling is of a book that's been padded out with artist bios to make up for the scantiness of the "problem solving" material.

I'm not sure who the audience for this book is--obviously some people like it, since it has some good reviews. For me, as an interior design student wanting to learn techniques for marker rendering, it was not useful. I felt it was a poor value and priced very out of line with the quantity and quality of the content.

For interior design and architecture students who need instruction in rendering, a much better value and more comprehensive instruction can be found in the book "Color Drawing: Design Drawing Skills and Techniques for Architects, Landscape Architects, and Interior Designers" by Michael Doyle.

Helpful
This book is helpful if you are trying to find your style of marker rendering it has a lot of helpful information and examples.

Wonderful rendering tips!
This book was very helpful in showing me different rendering techniques used by varying artists. From minimalist, neutral shading to full blown, vibrant color renderings, this book covered them all.
Great tips on which marker colors to use to achieve a particular 'look'...such as glass, metal, wood, etc.
Highly recommend.


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