Understanding Perspective (The Urban Sketching Handbook) : Easy Techniques for Mastering Perspective Drawing on Location

Learn how to put the 3D world on the 2D page with Understanding Perspective (The Urban Sketching Handbook). Learn about depth, scale, contrast, composition, and more.

A good sketch starts with good bones.

Often challenging and overwhelming to sketchers, the fourth book in the Urban Sketching Handbook series uses drawings and simple steps to explain the concepts of perspective in practical and useful ways for on-site sketching. Most books are either too abstract or don't provide enough information that relates to what you actually do when you're out in the busy, wide world about to start a drawing. Where do you start? How do you edit what you see to flatten and shrink it onto your paper? How does perspective work?

Understanding Perspective (The Urban Sketching Handbook) helps you learn to think like an architect, to draw buildings and spaces by reducing what you see to simple, basic shapes, then adding layers in simple steps, and finally finishing your sketch with detail, tone, and colour - in accurate perspective. Full of helpful tips, architect and illustrator, Stephanie Bower even de-constructs sketches to show you how to create them! Once you understand perspective, it will change the way you see the world - you'll see perspective everywhere.

Some of the key concepts explored in this volume are:

Basic Terms

Basic Spatial Principles

Types of Perspective

Building a Sketch in Layers

Special Conditions