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For beginners or seasoned artists who want to expand their sketching, drawing, or painting abilities, Drawing Perspective: How to See It and How to Apply It is your hands-on guide to learning and applying perspective so you can accurately portray the world around you. Author and art professor Matthew Brehm provides the knowledge you need to expand your artistic capabilities in this insightful, fun, and interactive book.
Part how to draw a set of straight lines that meet at a point, part exercise workbook, this text teaches about 1, 2, and 3-point perspective, as well as mulit-point, and curvilinear perspective. Learn how these perspectives work with fun, practical exercise without lots of dull, dry theory.
The 32-page workbook section will put your observational skills to the test with:
Image Quizzes: take a pen and draw in all the vanishing points onto the book itself Perspective Chambers: draw objects onto an existing scene, keeping it all in the right perspective--sort of like 3D doodling Unique exercises with more than 100 vanishing points to figure outBy the time you've completed this book, you will have a keen understanding of how perspective really works. Plus, you'll learn how to look at the world around you, see what's really there, and spot where those invisible straight lines may be located. Perspective will become like a sixth sense to you--one that will add depth and meaning to all of your artistic pursuits.
Author Notes
Matthew Brehm is an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Idaho, where his teaching responsibilities include design studios, graphics courses, and an annual two-month study abroad program in Rome, Italy. Matthew was involved as a founding Board Member of Urban Sketchers and has presented workshops and lectures at several of the group's International Symposiums. He is the author of Sketching on Location.
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Library Journal Review
Brehm's (architecture, Univ. of Idaho; Sketching on Location) guide achieves the laudable feat of explaining perspective drawing without being either boring or confusing. Perspective-the depiction of spatial depth on a two-dimensional surface-with its theories, geometry, and numerous rules, can seem frustratingly complicated to many artists, especially beginners. Chapters on one-point, two-point, three-point, multipoint, and curvilinear technique are structured around helping readers see, understand, and apply the various principles. Scenes are broken down into basic shapes and diagramed to illustrate how the technique operates in different situations. Each chapter includes a step-by-step exercise to cement the lesson. Readers can photocopy or download the special fold-out pages of grids and partial drawings found in the workbook section to aid in their drawing. A lively, brief history of perspective in the introductory section is a bonus. VERDICT Dynamic layouts and simple structure make this guide fun to read and easy to comprehend. © Copyright 2016. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.