Perspective Made Easy
This concise book contains all you'll ever need to know about perspective drawing. In twenty masterfully organized chapters, from simple to complex, the author explains the basics and not-so-basics of perspective drawing. He includes suggestions on how to make your drawings a lot simpler, drawing methods for observation and space division, a "Remember" section at the end of each chapter in which he summarizes the most important information and principles presented in that chapter, and a "Problems" section with exercises that will help you apply what you just learned. This great book, devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective, has over 250 simple line drawings, includes 256 illustrations, and leads the reader through every important concept.
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Perspective Made Easy
This concise book contains all you'll ever need to know about perspective drawing. In twenty masterfully organized chapters, from simple to complex, the author explains the basics and not-so-basics of perspective drawing. He includes suggestions on how to make your drawings a lot simpler, drawing methods for observation and space division, a "Remember" section at the end of each chapter in which he summarizes the most important information and principles presented in that chapter, and a "Problems" section with exercises that will help you apply what you just learned. This great book, devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective, has over 250 simple line drawings, includes 256 illustrations, and leads the reader through every important concept.
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Perspective Made Easy

Perspective Made Easy

by Ernest R Norling
Perspective Made Easy

Perspective Made Easy

by Ernest R Norling

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This concise book contains all you'll ever need to know about perspective drawing. In twenty masterfully organized chapters, from simple to complex, the author explains the basics and not-so-basics of perspective drawing. He includes suggestions on how to make your drawings a lot simpler, drawing methods for observation and space division, a "Remember" section at the end of each chapter in which he summarizes the most important information and principles presented in that chapter, and a "Problems" section with exercises that will help you apply what you just learned. This great book, devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective, has over 250 simple line drawings, includes 256 illustrations, and leads the reader through every important concept.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781034663898
Publisher: Blurb
Publication date: 08/23/2024
Pages: 218
Sales rank: 562,470
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

FOREWORD
STEP ONE
The Horizon
The Vanishing Point
The Eye-Level
STEP TWO
The Eye-Level and Its Relationship to Perspective Drawing
STEP THREE
Parallel lines as We Seem Them
Parallel Lines Related to One-Point Perspective
STEP FOUR
The Three Sets of Parallels
Locating the Point and the Eye-Level
STEP FIVE
The Two Vanishing Points
"The "Height" Lines"
STEP SIX
Placing the Two Vanishing Points
The Error of Close Spacing
STEP SEVEN
Showing How the Vanishing Points Move in Relationship to One Another
STEP EIGHT
Building Perspective with Bricks
STEP NINE
Placing Figures and Objects in a Drawing
STEP TEN
Center of Interest
Changing the View
Roofs in Perspective
STEP ELEVEN
Interiors
Placing of Furniture
STEP TWELVE
Finding the Center
Dividing Spaces into Halves
Practical Applications
STEP THIRTEEN
Cylinders in Perspective
Drawing Ellipses
STEP FOURTEEN
Practical Uses of Cylinders in Drawing
Dividing the Circle
STEP FIFTEEN
Dividing a Surface in Perspective
Drawing a Checkerboard
STEP SIXTEEN
Shade and Shadow
STEP SEVENTEEN
Reflections
STEP EIGHTEEN
Unusual Perspective
Up-and-Down Points
Examples
STEP NINETEEN
Perspective Downhill
Perspective Uphill
The False Eye-Level
STEP TWENTY
Mechanical Perspective
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