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.

You'll learn how to:

*Achieve the illusion of depth by gradually diminishing the sizes of―and the distance between―similar objects

*Use soft edged and less detail on objects in the background to make them seem farther away

*Introduce depth simply by manipulating color and value

*Draw from any viewpoint―on either side, above or below

*Draw accurate angles without complicated measuring devices

*Use perspective to track down the problem when something you've drawn just doesn't look right

*Measures relative sizes and add the details that make the difference between a convincing pictures and an awkward one

*Properly draw roads, paths, streets, fields and streams to suggest depth in a scene and to describe the flatness or hilliness of a landscape.