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Perspective Without Pain

Phil Metzger
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Pages
144
Year
1992
Language
English
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group

About

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 give 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 edged 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

• Measures relative sizes and add the details that make the difference between a convincing pictures 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.

Related Subjects

  • Study & Teaching
  • Art
  • Adult Nonfiction
  • General (Painting)
  • Painting
  • Techniques
  • General (Drawing)
  • Drawing

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