Imagine perspective without pain ... no T-squares, complicated equations or mechanical terms ... just simple instructions and hands-on exercises to teach you how to create a sense of depth in your drawings and paintings. Now go a step further ... imagine having fun with perspective. With this book, you will. Here Phil Metzger gives you clear-cut guidelines in everyday terms—with a lot of friendliness and a little humor tossed in along the way. As an experienced artist, he understands how you work, and he knows that the last thing you need is a lot of rigid rules to tie you down. Here you'll learn techniques of perspective that will help your creativity—not hinder it.
You'll learn how to:
- achieve the illusion of depth by gradually diminishing the sizes of—and the distance between—similar objects
- use soft edges and less detail on objects in the background to make them seem farther away
- introduce depth simply by manipulating color and value
- draw from any viewpoint—on either side, above or below
- draw accurate angles without complicated measuring devices
- use perspective to track down the problem when something you've drawn just doesn't look right
- measure relative sizes and add the details that make the difference between a convincing picture and an awkward one
- properly draw roads, paths, streets, fields and streams to suggest depth in a scene and to describe the flatness or hilliness of a landscape
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