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 gives 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 edges 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
• measure relative sizes and add the details that make the difference between a convincing picture 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