61. In Further Praise of the Rules of Perspective

In the last handout (Chapter 59) I began a treatise on the rules of perspective as formulated by Bruce McIntyre who, incidentally, is a former Disney Studios artist. I had to stop after discussing only the rule, Overlap, and even that one was barely touched on.

I am making a big deal out of this overlap thing, am I not? Well, that is because I believe, though the other rules of perspective have their own individual applications, they can be thought of as just variations of Overlap. For instance, Surface, Diminishing Size, and Surface Plus Size are really Overlap with space between. For instance, ...

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