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This handy guide to perspective drawing provides important information on 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 t...  read more
 


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Product Description:

This handy guide to perspective drawing provides important information on 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, and determining heights and widths.
Reprint of the Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1964 edition.

Product Details:

ISBN 10: 0486432084
ISBN 13: 9780486432083
Author/Editor: Joseph D'Amelio
Format: Book
Page Count: 96
Dimensions: 8 1/4 x 10 7/8
Publication date: May 2004

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