<p>Imagine perspective without pain...no T-squares, complicated equations or mechanical terms...just simple instructions and hands-on exercises to teach you how to create a sense of depth in your drawings and paintings. Now go a step further...imagine having fun with perspective. With this book, you will. Here Phil Metzger give you clear-cut guidelines in everyday terms--with a lot of friendliness and a little humor tossed in along the way. As an experienced artist, he understands how you work, and he knows that the last thing you need is a lot of rigid rules to tie you down. Here you'll learn techniques of perspective that will help your creativity--not hinder it.</p> <p>You'll learn how to:<ul> <li><br><br>Achieve the illusion of depth by gradually diminishing the sizes of--and the distance between--similar objects</li> <li>Use soft edged and less detail on objects in the background to make them seem farther away</li> <li>Introduce depth simply by manipulating color and value</li> <li>Draw from any viewpoint--on either side, above or below</li> <li>Draw accurate angles without complicated measuring devices</li> <li>Use perspective to track down the problem when something you've drawn just doesn't look right</li> <li>Measures relative sizes and add the details that make the difference between a convincing pictures and an awkward one</li> <li>Properly draw roads, paths, streets, fields and streams to suggest depth in a scene and to describe the flatness or hilliness of a landscape.</li></ul></p>