- ISBN13: 9781581809541
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Product Description
Gain a New Perspective on Drawing Master perspective like the pros! Vanishing Point shows you how to conquer the fundamentals of perspective drawing and then equips you with technical tricks and tools that make dynamic and complex scenes a snap. This complete guide helps you build your understanding of perspective to an intuitive level so you can draw anything you can imagine. Inside you’ll find: Complete instruction on drawing in one-, two- a… More >>
Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up
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#1 by Yuraccy Zambrano on April 18, 2010 - 11:59 pm
Vanishing Point: Perspective for Comics from the Ground Up
great book for Design & Perspective Drawings … highly recommended
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by artem on April 19, 2010 - 12:05 am
I have several books on the subject and this is one of the best. Definitely recommend! The book starts out with 1,2 & 3 point perspective and quickly delves into more advanced subjects that are incredibly useful in an illustration/concept art such as finding special and diagonal vanishing points, rotating grids & objects in space, finding vanishing trace, 4 & 5 point perspective. The author does a good job breaking down the complexity of the subject that is perspective providing helpful and time saving tips along the way. I strongly believe time spent mastering the principles discussed in this book will give you all the tools needed to successfully solve most of the perspective problems!
Thanks Jason!
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by John J. Meszaros on April 19, 2010 - 1:36 am
I’ve been illustrating professionally for several years now, but this book still taught me a few new tricks.
I’m particularly glad the author included tutorials on drawing in curvilinear perspective. I’ve seen this type of perspective used in comics quite a few times, but until now I’d never actually known how to use it. This is one of the few perspective books I’ve seen that covers this.
Rating: 4 / 5
#4 by Mr. Nicholas Allott on April 19, 2010 - 2:22 am
I have read through and /or worked through a few perspective books. This one is by far the best I’ve come across. I prefer it material of Andrew Loomis, Jonh Montague and Phil Metzger (although all of those have some things they do very well).
One of the best things about this book is the amount of practical exercises there are to do (which are very necessary). Also many of the exercises go all the way through to a full colour rendering, so you can really see what results these tools can create (and create them yourself).
The number of tricks and tools available are vast. It discuss curvelinear perspectives (which I’ve never seen described book before)in addition to many new (at least to me) one two and three point tricks.
I recommend this book to anyone studing perspective regardless of what other books they have.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by K. Rowley on April 19, 2010 - 3:31 am
Having originally trained in the area of manual drafting I’ve always thought I knew a lot about drawing perspectives. This book showed me that there are more options than just the traditional one, two, and three point techniques. In addition to covering the basics of those, it also details using curvilinear four point and a wide-view five-point method that to me mimics using a fish-eye lens.
This 128 page book is packed with examples and clearly written explanations of the methods demonstrated. I particularly like that you are shown a progression of examples, starting from a rough sketch and proceeding though to a finished full-color image.
I’d highly recommend this book for anyone who still draws by hand. I think it would also be beneficial for people doing similar artwork in a digital media as I think having a good working knowledge of basic perspective is important.
Rating: 5 / 5