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.

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Part One: The Basics; Overlap; Size and Space Variation; Modeling; Detail and Edges; Color and Value Change; Converging Lines; Vanishing Point and Eye Level; Estimating Angles; Part Two: Boxes and Beyond; A Simple Box in Perspective; Drawing Through; Finding Hidden Edges; Playing with Vanishing Points; Getting the Angles Right; The Perspective Center; Using the Perspective Center; Troubleshooting; Placing Doors and Windows; Boxes Within Boxes; Building a Glass House; Collections; Differing Elevations; Part Three: Curves and Inclines

Circles and EllipsesCircular Obiects; Combinations of Cylinders; Arches; Exaggeration as an Aid to Seeing; Measuring Relative Sizes; MoreVanishing Points; SomeVertical Lines Converge; Looking Up; Inclines; Roads, Paths, and Streets; Fields and Streams; Stairs; Beyond Eyeballing; Common Goofs; Conclusion; Index