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Click to enlargePerspective Drawing Handbook

Joseph D'Amelio
Our Price$8.95
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Format: Book
ISBN: 0486432084
Page Count: 96
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8
Concise, thoughtfully written text on drawing and sketching, accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations, provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective. Illustrations depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level.
Unabridged republication of the edition published by Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1964.

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