Selected Books & Online Resources
Drawing is a critical skill for any aspiring designer. Below are a selection of books and online resources to help you hone your drawing skills.
Drawing Types
- LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window-- A great source of online tutorial videos for sketching and other drawing instruction. Free for Penn State users. Select the option "Log in through your organization or school."
- Sketch & DrawAn excellent website by Ruzaimi Mat Rani that contains over 800 free online drawing videos with a heavy focus on architecture & landscape architecture.
Freehand Drawing and Discovery by Call Number: NA2708.R53 2013-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
-- includes access to 90 minutes of online tutorial videos. See details in back of book.
Drawing for Urban Design by Call Number: NA2708.F367 2011 Q-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
Drawing the Landscape : the Art of Hand Drawing and Digital Representation by Call Number: NC795.S86-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
Hybrid Drawing Techniques : Design Process and Presentation by Call Number: NA2708.G67 2015-- A good primer on integrating traditional hand drawings with digital design
- Visualizing Architecture-- An excellent site by Alex Hogrefe featuring many tutorials on digital rendering, mostly using Sketchup and/or Photoshop. He also has some tutorials on portfolio design.
Cut and Compose by Call Number: NC997.C88 2013 Q-- Book contains a DVD with a database of scalable, vectorized objects such as people, cars, plants, furniture, etc. to be used in your digital presentations. In the spirit of the classic ehtourage and tracing file books.
Enhancing Architectural Drawings and Models with Photoshop by Call Number: T385.O573 2011Available in eBook and paper
-- Paper book includes a DVD with video tutorials
Selling Architectural Ideas by 
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Call Number: NA1996.P64 2000-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
Visualizing Landscape Architecture by - This link opens in a new window
Call Number: SB472.47.M47 2010 Q-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
-- paper copy includes a DVD with examples of video presentations described in the text.
Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture by Call Number: SB475.9.D37C36-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy- Drawing the Landscape : the Art of Hand Drawing and Digital Representation by Call Number: NC795.S86-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
- Drawing for Urban Design by Call Number: NA2708.F367 2011 Q-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
The New Basics by Call Number: NC997.L87-- also available as an open access online book, see the Web Sites (Open Access) category in the menu at left.- Hybrid Drawing Techniques : Design Process and Presentation by Call Number: NA2708.G67 2015-- a good primer on integrating traditional hand drawings with digital design
- LinkedIn Learning This link opens in a new window-- Lynda.com is a great source of online tutorial videos for various CAD & rendering software. Lynda.com is free for Penn State users. Select the option "Log in through your organization or school."
- Visualizing Architecture-- An excellent site by Alex Hogrefe featuring many tutorials on digital rendering, mostly using Sketchup and/or Photoshop. He also has some tutorials on portfolio design.
- Cut and Compose by Call Number: NC997.C88 2013 Q-- Book contains a DVD with a database of scalable, vectorized objects such as people, cars, plants, furniture, etc. to be used in your digital presentations. In the spirit of the classic ehtourage and tracing file books.
- Enhancing Architectural Drawings and Models with Photoshop by Call Number: T385.O573-- Paper book includes a DVD with video tutorials
- Freehand Drawing and Discovery by Call Number: NA2708.R53 2013-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
-- includes access to 90 minutes of online tutorial videos. See details in back of book. - Visualizing Landscape Architecture by
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Call Number: SB472.47.M47 2010 Q-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
-- paper copy includes a DVD with examples of video presentations described in the text. 
Digital Architecture Now by Call Number: NA2728.S66 2008 Q-- not a How To Book, but a survey of architects that are pushing the envelope of digital design.- Digital Drawing for Landscape Architecture by Call Number: SB475.9.D37C36-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
Digital Landscape Architecture Now by Call Number: NA2728.A467 2012-- not a How To Book, but a survey of landscape architects that are pushing the envelope of digital design.- Drawing for Urban Design by Call Number: NA2708.F367 2011 Q-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
- Hybrid Drawing Techniques : Design Process and Presentation by Call Number: NA2708.G67 2015-- a good primer on integrating traditional hand drawings with digital design
- Drawing the Landscape : the Art of Hand Drawing and Digital Representation by Call Number: NC795.S86-- available both as an eBook and a paper copy
