perspective

A short introduction to the history of visual perspective in the representational arts from antiquity through the twentieth century.

Provides instructions for making one-point and two-point perspective drawings.

Describes the principles of perspective for watercolor artists, and includes step-by-step demonstrations of perspective techniques.

Explains the fundamental concepts of drawing, including the development of line, stroke, tone, negative space, composition, perspective, and others.

Provides information about isometric design in which objects are drawn in an exact style as opposed to the distorted shape seen from a human perspective, and includes pages of isometric designs that may be colored.

A movie aabout how to see, what to see, or what we think we see. It opens in a special effects studio in Hollywood. This setting underscores the fact that the extraordinary special effects we are accustomed to seeing today are based on principles established more than 500 years ago by Renaissance masters.This film focuses on the discovery of perspective and the development of visual tools that create the magic of illusion.

This book demonstrates the technique of using light and color to create an optical illusion of depth and distance in art.