01193nam a22001697a 450000500170000000800410001702000190005804000060007704100080008305000130009108200080010410000390011224500330015126000390018430000180022352107820024120260611104155.0260611b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a978-0486432083  c   2Eng  aNC750.D3  a742  aJoseph D'Amelio & Sanford Hohauser  aPerspective drawing handbook  a New York, bTudor Pub. Co.,c1964  a96 p.c29 cm.  aThis 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.