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    Perspective Drawing for Beginners
    Perspective Drawing for Beginners
    Perspective Drawing for Beginners
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    Perspective Drawing for Beginners

    By Len A. Doust

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    The amateur artist faces many challenges. To Len A. Doust, perspective is by far the most problematic. With his trademark humor, the author/artist turns his expert eye toward that "dreaded, horrid word." In a clearly written how-to guide on mastering the art of perspective, he carefully:
    • describes the roles of lines, boxes, and circles
    • provides shortcuts for visualizing shapes and forms
    • incorporates thirty-three plates of helpful illustrations
    One of the most concise introductions available for beginners, this practical volume will be an important addition to any artist's resource library.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateMar 8, 2012
    ISBN9780486138008
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      Perspective Drawing for Beginners - Len A. Doust

      APPLIED

      CHAPTER I

      INTRODUCTION

      OF all the difficulties that hamper the speedy efficiency of an amateur artist, perspective is the most general and obstinate. The books which I have been privileged to publish on sketching, drawing, and painting have brought to me hundreds of letters, many of appreciation I am happy to say, but mostly prompted by a desire to know more. Let me speak plainly here.

      If my earnest and energetic readers would thoroughly master the books even to the extent of many readings, I should receive many less letters of inquiry and, I hope, more of appreciation. In nine cases out of ten I have to repeat certain portions of the book with which my correspondent is so delighted. All teachers find that severity is an essential quality.

      Well, I dare not be severe with you who read my books or you will buy no more, perhaps, and then my publishers would not like me. But, believe me, not one word of these little guides has been written carelessly or to make up the number, and all I ask is that you do not pass over a page until completely understood and that you do not neglect the book until you know all it contains. Not that the knowledge is rare, but it is to a great extent essential and, I firmly believe, valuable.

      Dozens of go-aheads write to me about perspective. They want simple principles and rules by which they can quickly sketch sea, town, and country. This book is not a textbook on perspective. There are many complete studies of the subject. Here I have tried to give you short cuts to sound drawing for pictorial purposes and not for architectural designs.

      I suppose that everyone knows what is perspective. All who have tried to draw even in the slightest degree know that objects appear to get smaller as they recede, but many have not the slightest idea what rules govern such an illusion and their variation under different circumstances. Hold your finger close to your eye, shutting the other, and see how much is hidden. Hold your pencil up in line with a distant tree and you find they appear equal in thickness. Why is it that the feet of a table’s legs are not in a line? If railway lines tend to join one another in the distance, how is one to estimate their slope? Where does one place the horizon? How does one draw two sides of a house in order to

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