Table of Contents

1. Absorbing the Landscape Introduction • Developing vocabulary • Mark-making • People and Landscape • Capturing Light • Inspiring subjects • Influences • Abstraction • Drawing scale • Line quality • Expressive line • Drawing plants • 2. Drawing on Site Absorbing the past • The context • Keeping records • Jotting down ideas quickly • Detailed analysis drawings • 3. Drawing Ideas Communicating with clients • On-site analysis • Instant visual records • Aerial views • Working out levels • Planting plans • 4. Plan, Elevation and Section Drawing • Developing vocabulary of digital textures • Exploring hand-drawing textures • Detailed plans • Elevation showing walls • Sections • Plantings • Combining hand drawing with vector images • 5. Isometric Drawings Different viewpoints • Plantings for Large Garden Design • Landscape for Education • Urban Context • Digital colouring on hand drawings • Rendering Trees • Examining levels using isometrics • People using spaces • 6. Perspectives Quick sketches • Recording context • Putting Ideas Down • Communicating Ideas • Various project examples • 7.Money Drawings Communicating the budget wtih the project management team • A sequence of drawings showing budget economies • Various project examples • 8. Construction Detail Drawings Planting • Steps and gate design • Digital drawings of minute detail for wall construction • Bench design • Design for a skateboard cut • Paving and drainage • Fences • 9. Completed Work: Case Studies Selected drawings from the working process for: 1. St John’s College, Cambridge • 2. Coventry Peace Garden

About the Author

Edward Hutchison is principal of his own successful landscape design practice in London. He was previously an associate of Foster & Partners. His drawings have been included in major exhibitions, including the Royal Watercolour Society’s annual show in 2011.

Reviews

. . .a thoughtful manual enriched by a lifelong practice of beautifully crafted drawing.-- "Choice"

[Hutchinson] presents his wide-ranging discussion of drawing over the course of nine sumptuously illustrated chapters.-- "Library Journal"

Reintroduces the importance of learning to 'see by hand'.-- "Architectural West"

Strongly recommended for professional and academic library Landscape Architecture and Garden Design instructional reference collection, [this book] will also prove to be informed and informative reading for non-specialist general readers with an interest in landscaping their own estates.-- "The Midwest Book Review"

The deep value of this text resides in his instructive method of transitioning from (largely) color pencil to digital design. This method is applicable to every flavor of architecture and design, and only the most digitally-addicted need refuse Hutchinson's inviting manual of how to design grandly.-- "ArchNewsNow.com"