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    Perspective Drawing Handbook
    Perspective Drawing Handbook
    Perspective Drawing Handbook
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    Perspective Drawing Handbook

    By Joseph D'Amelio

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    This handy guide provides numerous insights and shortcuts to drawing and sketching effectively. Describing mandatory skills for beginning and advanced students, the text covers such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing.
    Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn illustrations that depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level, and explain such concepts as appearance versus reality; perspective distortion; determining heights, depths, and widths; and the use of circles, cylinders, and cones.
    Artists, architects, designers, and engineers will find this book invaluable in creating works with convincing perspective.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateJun 17, 2013
    ISBN9780486317304
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      Perspective Drawing Handbook - Joseph D'Amelio

      PERSPECTIVE

      DRAWING

      HANDBOOK

      JOSEPH D’AMELIO

      Illustrations by
      Joseph D’Amelio and Sanford Hohauser

      DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

      Mineola, New York

      To My Mother and Father

      Copyright

      Copyright © 1964 by Tudor Publishing Company

      Copyright © 1992 by The Trustees of the late Joseph D’Amelio

      All rights reserved.

      Bibliographical Note

      This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is an unabridged republication of the work originally published by Tudor Publishing Company, New York, in 1964.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      D’Amelio, Joseph.

      Perspective drawing handbook / Joseph D’Amelio ; illustrations by Joseph D’Amelio and Sanford Hohauser.

      p. cm.

      Originally published: New York : Tudor Pub. Co., 1964.

      ISBN-13: 978-0-486-43208-3 (pbk.)

      ISBN-10: 0-486-43208-4 (pbk.)

        1. Perspective. 2. Drawing—Technique. I. Title.

      NC750.D3 2004

      742—dc21

      2003048961

      Manufactured in the United States by Courier Corporation

      43208407

      www.doverpublications.com

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      Chapter 1: FUNDAMENTALS

      Diminution

      Foreshortening

      Convergence

      Overlapping … Shades and Shadows

      Color and Value Perspective … Detail and Pattern Perspective … Focus Effect

      Professional Applications of Fundamentals

      Chapter 2: REALITY AND APPEARANCE

      In Perspective Drawing You Draw What You See, Not Your Idea or Mental Image of the Subject

      Reality and Appearance–Example: United Nations Buildings from Different Viewpoints

      Reality and Appearance–Example: Park Bench from Different Viewpoints

      Chapter 3: HOW WE SEE FOR PERSPECTIVE DRAWING

      Cone of Vision … Central Visual Ray … Picture Plane

      Basis of Perspective–Lines of Sight Through a Picture Plane

      Chapter 4: WHY APPEARANCE DIFFERS FROM REALITY–THEORY

      Lines of Sight Through Picture Plane Applied to Diminution

      Lines of Sight Through Picture Plane Applied to Diminution and Convergence

      Lines of Sight Through Picture Plane Applied to Foreshortening and Overlapping

      Chapter 5: PRINCIPAL AIDS: VANISHING POINTS AND EYE LEVEL (HORIZON LINE)

      Aid No. 1: Vanishing Points–All Lines which in Reality are Parallel will Converge toward a Single Vanishing Point

      Vanishing Points (cont.)–When There are Many Sets of Parallel Lines going in Different Directions, Each will Converge toward its own Vanishing Point

      Professional Examples

      Aid No. 2: Eye Level (Horizon Line)–All Horizontal Lines Converge to a Single Horizontal Vanishing Line

      What Locates the Vanishing Line for All Horizontal Lines?

      Why the Observer’s Eye Level Dictates the Horizontal Vanishing Line – Theory

      What Locates the Vanishing Point of a Particular Set of Parallel Lines?

      Why the Parallel Pointing Method of Locating Vanishing Points is Important

      Nature’s Horizon Always Appears at Observer’s Eye Level. Therefore, it Can be Used as the Vanishing Line for Horizontal Lines

      Why Nature’s Horizon Appears at Observer’s Eye Level–Theory

      What Happens to Eye Level (Horizon Line) When You Look Straight Out, Down or Up?

      Professional Examples

      What Happens to Eye Level (Horizon Line) When You Look Straight Out, Down or Up (cont.)?

      Reasons for Choosing a Particular Eye Level (Horizon Line)

      Chapter 6: DRAWING THE CUBE-PREREQUISITE TO UNDERSTANDING PERSPECTIVE…

      Introduction

      Looking Straight Out at the Cube

      Professional Examples

      Looking Down at the Cube

      Professional Examples

      Looking Up at the Cube

      Professional Examples

      Cube Studies Applied to Drawings of United Nations Buildings

      Cube Studies Applied to Drawings of United Nations Buildings (cont.)

      Many Cubes Oriented in the Same Direction Results in Only Two Sets of Converging Lines

      Cubes Oriented in Many Directions Results in Many Sets of Converging Lines

      Why a Thorough Knowledge of Simple Shapes is Important

      Applications of the Basic Cube and Brick Shapes

      Chapter 7: ONE-POINT AND TWO-POINT PERSPECTIVE-WHEN AND WHY?

      Introduction

      Professional Examples

      Distorted and Correct One-Point Perspective

      Chapter 8: MORE ON LOOKING UP, DOWN, AND STRAIGHT AHEAD

      Introduction

      Things Seen by Looking Straight Out and Things Seen by Looking Up

      Things Seen by Looking Down

      Review: Looking Up, Straight Out, Down

      Looking Straight Out

      Chapter 9: PERSPECTIVE DISTORTION

      Related to Vanishing Points and to Cone of Vision

      Observer-Cone of Vision-Vanishing Points Relationship (Horizontal Distortion)

      Vanishing Points Too Far Apart

      Chapter 10: DETERMINING HEIGHTS AND WIDTHS

      Height Lines

      Heights Related to Eye Level–1: Heights When Observer is Standing

      2: Heights When Observer is in Elevated Position

      3: Heights When Observer is Sitting … 4: Heights When Observer is Lying Down

      Heights Outdoors…and Indoors

      Professional Examples

      Determining Widths in Perspective–Width Lines

      Chapter 11: DETERMINING DEPTHS

      Finding Center Points by Diagonals

      Equal Spacing by Diagonals

      Subdividing a Surface by Diagonals … Dividing a Surface into Equal Spaces by Using a Measuring Line and a Special Vanishing Point

      Dividing a Surface into Unequal Spaces with a Measuring Line and Special Vanishing Point

      Determining Depths and Widths of Room Interiors by the Measuring Line Method

      Another Way of Getting Depths: The Sliding Ruler and Diagonals Method

      Drawing Equal-Sized but Unequally-Spaced Elements–Vanishing Point of Diagonals Method

      Diagonals as an Aid in Drawing Concentric and Symmetrical Patterns on Rectangles and Squares

      Any Design or Pattern can be Reproduced in Perspective by Means of a Grid that Locates its Important Points

      Chapter 12: INCLINED PLANES

      Introduction

      Vertical Vanishing Line and Horizon Line are Based on Same Theory and Serve Similar Purposes

      Uphill and Downhill (Inclined Planes)

      Some Applications of Inclined Plane Perspective

      Chapter 13: CIRCLES, CYLINDERS AND CONES

      Circles and Ellipses

      Drawing the Ellipse

      The Center of a Circle Drawn in Perspective Does Not Lie on the Corresponding Ellipse’s Major Axis

      Cylinders

      Cones

      Professional Applications

      Chapter 14: SHADE AND SHADOW

      Introduction

      Parallel Light Rays (Sunlight) Parallel to Observer’s Face

      Application Sketches

      Parallel Light Rays (Sunlight) Oblique to Observer’s Face

      Parallel Light Rays Oblique to Observer’s Face (cont.)

      Application Sketches

      Professional Examples

      Shade and Shadow Created by Local Point Sources of Light

      Application Sketches

      Professional Example

      INTRODUCTION

      A

      N UNDERSTANDING OF PERSPECTIVE

      is mandatory for all students and professionals involved with representational drawing. This includes a wide variety of fields, such as: Illustration, Interior Design, Architecture, Industrial Design, Engineering Design, Scenic Design and even Fine Arts. While each of these areas applies perspective techniques for different purposes and to varying degrees of thoroughness, artists in all of them must be knowledgeable and experienced in basic perspective fundamentals and principles. This book provides those essentials.

      For those concerned with mechanical (T-square and triangle) perspective it explains and gives life to all the theories upon which mechanical perspective is based.

      For those concerned with freehand perspective it provides all the important principles, insights and shortcuts necessary for effective drawing and life sketching.

      Furthermore, this volume has been planned as a practical reference book for the experienced artist or delineator who finds that passing time has rendered certain techniques or principles vague; and

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