FreeHand Perspective and Sketching

The essential guide to rendering perspective <i>Freehand Perspective and Sketching</i> uses a series of illustrated exercises and explanations to help artists master one of art's greatest challenges. Generations of art students and amateurs have found it an indispensable resource of the time-honored principles and methods that empower artists to express themselves.<br>More than 260 figures offer precise demonstrations in the representation of shapes shadows angles and proportion. Author Dora Miriam Norton discusses how to combine these elements to create realistic-looking compositions focusing primarily on the techniques of proportion and foreshortening. Freehand sketching she explains means drawing by the trained eye and judgment. This book provides a foundation of definite knowledge that enables artists to draw items individually or in groups without needing to see actual models.