Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction)

Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction) by Joseph D'Amelio * Publisher: Dover Publications * Number Of Pages: 96 Product Description: Concise, thoughtfully written text on drawing and sketching, accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations, provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective. Illustrations depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level. Summary: I really improved a drawing using techniques from this book Rating: 5 I was trying to draw a picture of a building with an extended cover over the driveway from a kind of different point of view and this book really helped me out. Good, understandable info on perspective drawing. Summary: Excellent!... It's my #1 choice in my Top 5 perspective books... Rating: 5 This is currently my favorite perspective book! If I listed my Top 5, it would have to be: Perspective Drawing Handbook; Perspective Made Easy; Perspective! for Comic Book Artists; Basic Perspective Drawing: A Visual Guide, 4th edition; and then Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators. Perspective Drawing Handbook is my favorite because it's clear, concise, slim & to the point. It's very enlightening! In my opinion, Joseph D' Amelio was a genius in his understanding of perspective & his ability to communicate this to others. Because this book is so slim, clear & reasonably priced, I would highly recommend this to anyone & *everyone* interested in learning about perspective-based drawing. Even if it doesn't become your favorite overall, it's certainly worth having in your collection, as perspective is such a difficult topic that it's really best to buy a number of books. And if you're going to buy a number of books, it would help to know which are the *best* while at the same time being reasonably priced. This is at the top of my list! Three-point perspective *is* covered here, although he mostly avoids this term and instead calls this "looking up & down". It's simplistic in its approach, but that's what great teachers are about: taking difficult concepts & making them easy to understand. The writing can be a little stiff, but this book relies mostly on visuals, which is exactly what I prefer! There really aren't that many words here, especially when compared to another book I recently reviewed: Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators. If you think Perspective Drawing Handbook is a bit too wordy, than you'd definitely want to stay away from Creative Perspective! Perspective Drawing Handbook: my highest recommendation! Quote: http://rapidshare.com/files/140941629/Joseph_D_Amelio_-_Perspective_Drawing_Handbook_www.softarchive.net.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/140765568/Joseph_D_Amelio_-_Perspective_Drawing_Handbook_www.softarchive.net.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/140765937/Joseph_D_Amelio_-_Perspective_Drawing_Handbook_www.softarchive.net.part3.rar no pass