Perspective Drawing Handbook Paperback – Illustrated, May 17 2004
by Joseph DAmelio (Author)


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.


Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dover Publications (May 17 2004)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 96 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0486432084
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0486432083
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 272 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 20.83 x 0.76 x 27.18 cm