Perspective Without Pain

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.