Pen and Ink Drawing and Light Color Techniques

Author: Wu Xiaoqi
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Publishing Date: 2005-03-01
Features: This series of textbooks is one of the design and art education series compiled by the Design College of the China Academy of Art. The original plan was to compile a total of 50 books to form a scale and influence the design and art community. Although I initiated this project, I felt the responsibility was too great to bear and believed that a diverse approach was better, so no chief editor was appointed. Each contribution is responsible for its own content, and the quality will be judged by public opinion. Today, the design market is booming, everyone is busy, and attitudes are, making high-quality textbooks rare. The lack of theory has led to the sterility of design, which is an undeniable fact. Colleagues like Xiaoqi were able to squeeze time like a sponge and spare no effort to compile the Architectural and Environmental Imagery Expression Series, leaving behind a valuable record, which is truly commendable. Indeed, for the countless students, as a teacher, it is a duty to take responsibility. Teachers like Wu Xiaoqi from the Environmental Art Department and radar from the Industrial Design Department at our college have taken the lead. Everyone should follow suit. I have a good working relationship with these teachers and sincerely wish them even greater achievements.
Writing a preface is the hardest thing, to achieve conciseness and profundity requires not only skill but also knowing where to start. After much deliberation and multiple revisions, I wrote this "plain language" as the preface.
Professor and Deputy Dean of the Design College, Doctoral Supervisor of the China Academy of Art, Wang Guoliang.
Architectural and Environmental Imagery Expression is the foundation of environmental art and design, and it is also increasingly valued as an important part of modern commercial competition bidding. We compiled this series of books to introduce the basic principles of architectural and environmental design, starting from hard-line sketches to colored rendering, and even to the widely used computer drawing techniques in modern applications, explaining a complete and progressive learning method. Through our introduction, we hope to provide correct guidance for beginners, especially students from similar professional schools, to quickly master the professional techniques of architectural and environmental imagery expression and achieve twice the result with half the effort.
The Environmental Art Department of the China Academy of Art has always emphasized the mastery of watercolor rendering techniques for students, and in ink and wash rendering exercises, it focuses on inheriting the traditional Chinese humanistic spirit. This training method has been proven to be effective in practice. Students' professional painting skills rank among the top in similar universities nationwide and have become the "specialty" of students in the Environmental Art Department of the China Academy of Art.