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This handy guide provides numerous insights and shortcuts to drawing and sketching effectively. Describing mandatory skills for beginning and advanced students, the text covers such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing.
Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn illustrations that depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level, and explain such concepts as appearance versus reality; perspective distortion; determining heights, depths, and widths; and the use of circles, cylinders, and cones.
Artists, architects, designers, and engineers will find this book invaluable in creating works with convincing perspective.
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Learn the basics of perspective drawing!
Illustrations and step-by-step guidance for both beginning students and advanced architects, artists, designers, and engineers seeking a refresher
Learn the mandatory skills for perspective drawing—Our handbook is packed with more than 150 illustrations accompanied by step-by-step instructions.Master the basics—From diminution and foreshortening to convergence, shade and shadow, vanishing points and eye level, our book covers it all! Understand concepts such as appearance versus reality; perspective distortion; determining heights, depths and widths; and the use of circles, cylinders, and cones.Targeted instruction—Learn how to achieve the actual form and structure of scenes and objects, and how these scenes and objects change appearance from different viewpoints and lighting conditions, i.e. how three-dimensional “reality” looks, and how it’s best drawn on two-dimensional surfaces.An excellent practical reference guide for students in a wide variety of fields—Architecture, Engineering Design, Illustration, Industrial Design, Interior Design, Scenic Design, and even Fine Art.
Perspective Drawing Handbook
This handy guidebook sets the standard for mandatory skills for both beginning and advanced students of drawing and sketching. It provides the fundamentals and principles of perspective drawing with step-by-step written text accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations.The book demonstrates diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, vanishing points, and eye level. It also explains such crucial concepts as appearance versus reality; perspective distortion; determining heights, depths, and widths; and the use of circles, cylinders, and cones.
In this comprehensive reference booklet, you’ll find all the essential information you need to effectively draw with a masterful eye toward depth. The Perspective Drawing Handbook is an invaluable resource for artists, architects, designers, and engineers seeking to create works with varying depth perspectives.
Publisher : Dover Publications; unknown edition (May 17, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 96 pages
ISBN-10 : 0486432084
ISBN-13 : 978-0486432083
Item Weight : 9.6 ounces
Dimensions : 8.2 x 0.3 x 10.7 inches
Customers say
Customers find the book helpful for understanding perspective drawing concepts. They describe it as a good reference book that provides useful information and helps put lessons together. However, some readers feel the book is too complex for beginners and lacks sufficient explanations.
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