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Lifelike Animals
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Lifelike Animals

by Linda Weil
May 2008
Beginner to intermediate
64 pages
3h 4m
English
Walter Foster
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PERSPECTIVE BASICS

For a drawing to be considered realistic, it needs to give the impression that it inhabits a three-dimensional space with depth and distance. To do this, employ the rules of perspective in your drawings. The first (and most important) rule of perspective is that objects that are closest to the viewer are larger than objects that are farther away. Here you’ll find demonstrations of one- and two-point perspective; for more information, see William F. Powell’s book Perspective (AL13) in Walter Foster’s Artist’s Library series.

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One-Point Perspective In one-point perspective, there is only one vanishing point (VP), or the point at ...

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ISBN: 9781600580673