Perspective Drawing

This handy guide to perspective drawing provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing. Unabridged republication of the edition published by Tudor Publishing Company, New York, 1964.

This handy guide provides numerous insights and shortcuts to drawing and sketching effectively. Describing mandatory skills for beginning and advanced students, the text covers such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing.

Whether you're creating simple shapes or a bustling street scene, see how to add a sense of depth and space in your vector artwork with Illustrator's powerful perspective tools. In this course, Adobe Certified Instructor Kevin Stohlmeyer explains the differences between one-, two-, and three-point perspective, while showing how to use the Perspective Grid for creating perspective artwork.

In addition to linear perspective, complex numbers and probability were notable discoveries of the Renaissance. While the power of perspective, which transformed Renaissance art, was quickly recognized, the scientific establishment treated both complex numbers and probability with much suspicion. It was only in the twentieth century that quantum theory showed how probability might be molded from complex numbers and defined the notion of “complex probability amplitude”.