Practical Perspective, Lectures - Softcover

Richard Burchett

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0461600633 ISBN 13: 9780461600636

Publisher: HardPress, 2021

Synopsis

Practical Perspective, Lectures by Richard Burchett describes a practical course in linear perspective for artists and students. The work explains the difference between geometry and perspective, emphasizes an approach that combines optical laws with practical drawing skills, and aims to ensure students understand fundamental principles rather than rote rules. Burchett argues that perspective must reflect optical reality, and provides a structured sequence of lessons beginning with the definitions, axioms, and the “three plan” of learning: the station point (eye position), the plane of delineation (picture plane), and the horizon line. It covers the cone of rays, the role of the pupil angle (60 degrees), and the use of vanishing points, distance points, and measuring points for constructing perspective drawings of rooms, furniture, and oblique planes. The book includes numerous step-by-step exercises, including rooms, doors, windows, stairs, tables, chairs, arches, capitals, and decorative mouldings, to develop a practical competence in drawing in perspective.

Edition details

• Publisher: HardPress
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0461600633
• ISBN 13: 9780461600636
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182