Perspective Without Pain (Paperback)

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:

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  Achieve the illusion of depth by gradually diminishing the sizes of - and the distance between - similar objects
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  Use soft edged and less detail on objects in the background to make them seem farther away
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  Introduce depth simply by manipulating color and value
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  Draw from any viewpoint - on either side, above or below
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  Draw accurate angles without complicated measuring devices
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  Use perspective to track down the problem when something you`ve drawn just doesn`t look right
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  Measures relative sizes and add the details that make the difference between a convincing pictures and an awkward one
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  Properly draw roads, paths, streets, fields and streams to suggest depth in a scene and to describe the flatness or hilliness of a landscape.

Author:

Metzger, Philip W.

ISBN:

9780891344469

Format:

Paperback

Publish Date:

03/01/1992

Publisher:

North Light Books

Language:

English

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