Product Description:

• Many artists are intimidated by perspective. However, creating an illusion of depth in your work is actually far easier than colour or design when explained correctly. With this book, readers will learn how to create perspective on a flat surface using a variety of mediums. Starting simple, the book covers the theory behind perspective and gradually introduces more and more challenging subjects. Before long, readers will be taking on such complex scenes as stairways, curves, and non-rectangular objects.

Customer Ratings:

• A Fantastic Book on Perspective. I m a school art teacher. Teaching perspective to students is always a challenge. One has to think of examples to illustrate the different kinds of perspective.Phil Metzger s book has finally help me in this aspect. There are ample examples where I can draw from to make my explanation clearer to students. His Part 3 on Special Problems touches on perspective of complex structures and what he has shown are very informative and valuable to me as an art teacher.
• Useful and impressive. The Art of Perspective is an impressive and very useful guide to achieve a convincing illusion of depth in drawings or paintings. PHIL METZGER shows outstanding talent presenting his techniques with simple and easy-to-follow explanations. With his guidance we succeed putting perspective into the picture- no matter how special our eye-position or view-point may be. And he does not leave out any complementary subject, like atmospheric perspective, light and shadow or reflected light as well as many other effects that contribute to the illusion of depth. Moreover his fine watercolor paintings stimulate us to contemplate, having adopted now the ability of showing what we see in a very convincing way.
• The BEST Book on Perspective!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. I am an art teacher who has spent years teaching perspective, linear and atmospheric...and I have never found a very good book until this one!!!! The Art of Perspective: The Ultimate Guide for Artists in Every Medium
• a good perspective book. Illustrates and explains the right way to draw roof angles, shadows and reflections, as well as stairs, tile floors, wheels, etc. Uses many diagrams, photographs, painting examples (watercolor & some oil), and written suggestions for different methods to try in figuring out how to draw something correctly. Briefly touches on focus, reflected light, scale, etc, some step-by-step demonstrations on drawing houses. Some prior perspective knowledge might fill in some small gaps in information (struggled through Rex Vicat Cole s Perspective for Artists, a helpful 1920s textbook-like reprint) but this book goes to great lengths to illustrate perspective in a way I can understand.
• For once - a complete detailed well written book. This book is incredible. I highly recommend it.
  
  The writing is detailed, clear and simple. The accompanying photographs, line drawings, sketches and paintings are numerous and clearly show what is being discussed.
  
  The discussion is comprehensive but written in a way to make the subject clear without unnecessary clutter.
  
  The author starts with Natural Perspective including the elements of size, spacing, tone, value, color, overlapping, placement, etc., then moves on to the rules of Linear Perspective.
  
  I have a burgeoning collection of art, drawing, sketching and painting books and this ranks at the very top.
  
  The discussion of Natural Perpective in the first several chapters is - by itself - worth the cost of the book.
  
  I can t recommend this highly enough !!!!!
  
  So many books fall far short of their promises. This one delivers.

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