Basic Perspective Drawing: A Visual Approach, 5th Edition

PREFACE

This new edition of Basic Perspective Drawing remains true to the book's original intent to provide a practical, accessible, and essentially “visual” approach to perspective.

The latest set of changes and additions reflects the welcomed suggestions of students and professionals who use the book. By request, a number of new pages have been added, demonstrating less formal methods of sketching perspective views. Some of the images have been updated in style, and several pages have been added, demonstrating three-point views and methods of setting figures into perspective spaces. Finally, additonal step-by step examples have been added to Chapter 14.

Basic Perspective Drawing is organized such that is can be studied sequentially and/or used as a reference. The first chapters provide an orientation and overview while subsequent chapters address more specific problems and techniques.

In keeping with its original design, this edition maintains a spare, linear style of illustration for clarity and to invite direct participation. For greatest effect, the book should be treated as a learning tool to be drawn in, written in and high-lighted.

Perspective drawing is a way of seeing and understanding the visual world as much as it is a technique for reproducing it. Thus an understanding of perspective is an especially valuable tool in concert with all the exciting new digital tools now available.

Finally, like reading and writing, perspective drawing is a learnable skill. And, like ...