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Drawing Perspective Methods for Artists: 85 Methods for Creating Spatial Illusion in Art
Learn how to create the illusion of three-dimensional space in your drawings
It is as mundane as it is placed in the right way, a couple of lines on paper create three-dimensional space. To be more exact, the illusion of space.
The interest in three-dimensional drawing may initially arise from the intention to depict visible reality. However, the creation of depth is a fascinating challenge in every artistic composition. Drawing Perspective Methods for Artists is suitable for beginners and professionals alike. Authors Peter Boerboom and Tim Proetel have arranged, commented on, and with a guiding hand intuitively and tangibly presented 85 fundamental methods of three-dimensional illustration , offering a refreshing, simple approach to the graphic depiction of three-dimensionality.
It is as mundane as it is placed in the right way, a couple of lines on paper create three-dimensional space. To be more exact, the illusion of space.
The interest in three-dimensional drawing may initially arise from the intention to depict visible reality. However, the creation of depth is a fascinating challenge in every artistic composition. Drawing Perspective Methods for Artists is suitable for beginners and professionals alike. Authors Peter Boerboom and Tim Proetel have arranged, commented on, and with a guiding hand intuitively and tangibly presented 85 fundamental methods of three-dimensional illustration , offering a refreshing, simple approach to the graphic depiction of three-dimensionality.
192 pages, Hardcover
First published March 13, 2013
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November 22, 2017
The beginning of the book was fairly basic, but there was some really good information. I especially liked the explanation on how to properly space street lamps or other regularly spaced objects in a perspective drawing. It was well done with great examples and ideas. It is not a long read but a great place to find inspiration.
August 10, 2021
I think my problem here is that I am an absolute beginner and don't understand perspective at all. I don't know what I was expecting from this book, but this wasn't it. The drawings are helpful, but the explanations are brief at best and I can say I didn't get much from it. I gave it three stars because this is more a fault of mine than the book's.
March 9, 2022
Lovely illustrations with very simple, at times sparse, explanations. The most helpful discussion was the vanishing point based on the eye level of the viewer, but lost me at the other explanations e.g. how to demonstrate steps using a vanishing point. That would have been best illustrated in a step-by-step method rather than the entire picture showing the final technique.
November 14, 2017
Really incredible. The most intuitive, least fussy/technical full treatment of perspective I’ve seen.
September 25, 2019
Very simple, to the point and basic visual explanation of how to do perspective. I will reference this in my work all the time.
May 10, 2022
This was a very thought-provoking book. Even if you're not an artist, there's merit in at least looking through this and seeing what you make of the various perspective illustrations inside. This was why I took so long with this title. I revisited it again and again over the course of more than a year, to see if I viewed the illustrations the same way, or differently, each time.
The book contains very basic black and white watercolour or pencil-sketch pictures, to illustrate the various ways you can convey depth and space in art. For instance, you could use line condensation, shading, blurring, curves, etc. The beauty of the all the images shown is that they are so very simple (e.g. they are made up of just a few lines), yet with just that little bit drawn, so much is implied. It really allows you insight into how our minds process 3D objects. Most of the images come with a very short one- to two-sentence description of how the lines/curves/etc help create the perception of depth.
I knocked a star off my rating of this book because some of the images didn't quite convey to me the depth or spatial illusion the authors said it would. They wrote that some images were supposed to contain "implied depth/space", but I didn't get that, even after viewing them multiple times (i.e. they still looked "flat" to me). I also didn't quite feel the "blurring" technique mentioned really relied on "blurring" per se, but rather "lightening". Which should thus really be a "shading" technique, because you can make something appear near/far depending on how dark/light you make it.
Overall, this was an enjoyable read, because it really made me think about how we perceive things. The book isn't that good in actually teaching you how to achieve those techniques, because it just shows you the completed picture and expects you to just copy it I guess, instead of telling you how to achieve the completed picture step by step. But it does make you appreciate how our minds work.
The book contains very basic black and white watercolour or pencil-sketch pictures, to illustrate the various ways you can convey depth and space in art. For instance, you could use line condensation, shading, blurring, curves, etc. The beauty of the all the images shown is that they are so very simple (e.g. they are made up of just a few lines), yet with just that little bit drawn, so much is implied. It really allows you insight into how our minds process 3D objects. Most of the images come with a very short one- to two-sentence description of how the lines/curves/etc help create the perception of depth.
I knocked a star off my rating of this book because some of the images didn't quite convey to me the depth or spatial illusion the authors said it would. They wrote that some images were supposed to contain "implied depth/space", but I didn't get that, even after viewing them multiple times (i.e. they still looked "flat" to me). I also didn't quite feel the "blurring" technique mentioned really relied on "blurring" per se, but rather "lightening". Which should thus really be a "shading" technique, because you can make something appear near/far depending on how dark/light you make it.
Overall, this was an enjoyable read, because it really made me think about how we perceive things. The book isn't that good in actually teaching you how to achieve those techniques, because it just shows you the completed picture and expects you to just copy it I guess, instead of telling you how to achieve the completed picture step by step. But it does make you appreciate how our minds work.
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