I always enjoy Francis D. K. “Frank” Ching’s latest sketch articles. The above is just one sketch from his latest blog post, The Principle of Contrast. Back in the day, all of us architecture students had his first work, published in 1979, Architecture: Form, Space, and Order:
It was a beautiful work in pencil, all completely written in his gorgeous hand lettering. Since then, Ching has published several more books and updated the editions a few times. They have recently been re-formatted into a single series:
A few of his older classics are also available, but do not appear to have been re-formatted into his current series:
If you haven’t ever seen his beautiful drawings, head over to his blog, Seeing.Thinking.Drawing and peruse!