Perspective Sketching: Freehand and Digital Drawing Techniques for Artists & Designers Paperback – January 1, 2015

I enjoyed this sketching book and it will certainly become a heavily used reference. Jorge Paricio helps refine the skill of intuitive sketching with his words and examples. Steps and discussion help the artist improve, refine and create drawing to communicate design intent. This book instills confidence and should be on the must-have list of anyone interested in improving sketching skills.

This book is an excellent guide to enhance freehand and digital drawing techniques as it outlines various types of perspective drawings with skillful illustrations and detailed explanations. Jorge Paricio effectively communicates these methods through different techniques and outstanding rendering details. This book is a great reference, and I would recommend it to any artists, designers, or anyone interested in the visual arts.

This book is very loosely written and glosses over many of the major topics in industrial design rendering. This book doesn't add anything of noteworthy compared to other ID books. I expected this book to teach a short hand to creating fast accurate design sketches. A short division technique to the usual long division that is setting up good perspective. It doesn't teach any of that and mostly tries to cover the breadth of presentation, sequential, Photoshop rendering. What it does teach is so badly executed. The efficiency sketching techniques of using 3D models, overlays, and basic form breakdown are all covered better in Scott Robertson's book "How to Draw. Not to mention Scott's book is like getting a college class in the subject. Compared with Jorge Paricio who loved listing his Ph.D but lacks the skill to effectively teach an idea or even fully render a design to a compatent level from someone with his credentials. This book uses no more than 4-5 sequential steps to the drawing demonstration. The steps that are shown are not the optimal steps to show off technique. This book is filled with large mostly rendered images, often taking up 80% of a page. The other 20% is text that glosses over information and comes off as basic or anecdotal. If you want to learn in depth perspective drawing/rendering I recommend Scott Robertson's books. If you want a book that attempts a little more overview of the full Product design rendering process get Drawing for product designers by Kevin Henry. His book not only covers all the information that Jorge Paricio tries to cover, but also does it more clearly and in depth. Kevin also lightly covers efficient approaches to drawing fast accurate design drawings. Something I really wish that perspective Sketching had covered better.

Are you looking for specific drawing techniques? Jorge Paricio, in his sketching book, will show you how to draw specific subjects (from sneakers to cars to a coffee maker) in a simple yet creative way that all drawing amateurs will be thankful for. I highly recommend it to anyone passionate about drawing and sketching.

Great book for perspective drawing! Extremely helpful with drawing and rendering products. This book helped me improve my drawing from loose sketches to polished renderings. I highly recommend this book if you are learning how to draw or if just want to improve and learn some new tips.

I have used this book to improve my skills for my professional career and now as an educator in design, I use it in the classroom. I specifically appreciate the different drawing styles represented and the approach. Great book!

This frustrating book is beautifully illustrated book but extremely poor at explaining anything worth learning. As a very basic test, less than a quarter of the pages have any meaningful idea discussed or explained. Some of the illustrations contain technically unhelp descriptions of what is being illustrated ("this is a picture of a shoe"), where or for what event it was drawn, but only occasionally insight into why, or how, the image was developed graphically in the manner it was. In addition, the book sorely misses a basic copy-edit: the limited instructional text changes from future to past to conditional tense, often within a single sentence, and the authorial voice switches from the singular to the plural to the second person, almost at random, making it extremely difficult to follow in the rare cases where a technical explanation is being attempted. (For example: p. 71 has 3 sentences on it: "In this drawing we are going to ... I have worked with .. I would leave...etc.") In other cases, the text is just factually wrong (e.g. p. 204 "The [Photoshop] process is shown at the bottom of the illustration" -- no; it's not; it's missing). It might be of interest to a strictly visual learner for its illustrations, or for a brief closing chapter on basic Photoshop manipulations that is better, technically, than the rest, but it's hard to imagine someone reading this book with either insight or, if seeking insight, pleasure.

Fantastic book! Jorge Paricio is a master of his craft and he communicates in an effective way. This is a must have for any designer or artist.

This book is poorly designed with s*** content which has nothing to do with "basic principles of perspective". The only thing mentioned in the book about 3D modeling software is the author spent 4 hours modeling a simple scene in sketch up which everyone can easily do with blender in 45 minutes. Despite all the white space and huge pictures which show off trivial steps of sketching the book accounts for less than 100 pages of solid information, let alone the fact that most of the time it is just the author bulls***ting "I did [add some lines] here using a [some color] pen to make [some effect]". Some tips mentioned about product design are legit and actually good but it is definitely a waste of time and money if you want to learn something about perspective principles and theories.This book taught no theory and the section on Finding the eye level even mentioned nothing about how to find a eye level except mentioning that average human height is 1.7 meter.I suggest Perspective Made Easy for beginners.To conclude: This book do convey legit points, but it is definitely not an effective way to learn perspective sketching.

Beaucoup d'illustration de la part de l'auteur et très peu d'explication.Ce n'est pas vraiment un manuel d'apprentissage..L'auteur a voulu se faire plaisir et présenter son travail sans vraiment partager la conception/notion de perspective.On y apprend pas grand chose!Si vous voulez apprendre la perspective, un seul livre: L'art du dessin en perspective ( Yves Leblanc), un DVD est inclus dans le livre et est très utile!

Not as much detail as I would have liked. There could have been a few more examples of freehand perspective sketching. But gives detailed examples which are useful for drawing up instruction illustrations and also good examples for getting perspective ring when sketching objects or furniture.