Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction) - Softcover

Joseph D'Amelio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486432084 ISBN 13: 9780486432083

Publisher: Dover Publications, 2004

Synopsis

Learn the basics of perspective drawing! Get the fundamentals and principles with illustrations and step-by-step guidance for both beginning students and advanced architects, artists, designers, and engineers seeking a refresher on various depth perspectives.
 
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.
 

• 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.

 

About this title

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486432084
• ISBN 13: 9780486432083
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96