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Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators

by Ernest W. Watson

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Perspective as a foundation for invention

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Perspective as a foundation for invention

Ernest W. Watson organizes this guide around a useful tension: artists need to understand classical perspective before they can deliberately bend its rules. The instruction moves through practical elements—including the picture plane, foreshortening, convergence, circles, cones, three-point perspective, and figures in perspective—then connects those principles to the possibility of creative adaptation. Analyses of work by illustrators such as John Atherton, Albert Dorne, and Ben Stahl, alongside drawings by Pieter de Hooch and Paul Cezanne, give the technical discussion visual reference points. The book’s subject is both the mechanics of representing space and the choices artists can make once those mechanics are understood.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Artists and illustrators studying perspective drawing fundamentals
  • Students interested in applying classical perspective principles creatively
  • Readers seeking examples of perspective in artists’ and illustrators’ work

Themes

Perspective drawingClassical technique and creative adaptationRepresentation of spaceIllustration analysis

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Book overview

In this thought-provoking practical guide, a noted artist and educator demonstrates that learning to violate the rules of perspective (profitably) is as important for the practicing artist as learning the principles of perspective themselves. Only in this way can students free themselves from the constraints of tradition and find their own imaginative paths. However, it is vital that students first have a solid grasp of classical perspective before they can think about adapting it creatively.
In presenting the principles of perspective drawing, Mr. Watson devotes a chapter each to step-by-step discussions of such topics as the picture plane, foreshortening and convergence, the circle, the cone, three-point perspective, universal perspective, figures in perspective, and much more. To illustrate his points he offers expert analysis of the works of such leading illustrators as John Atherton, V. Bobri, R. M. Chapin, Jr., Albert Dorne, Robert Fawcett, Constantin Guys, W. N. Hudson, Carl Roberts, Ben Stahl, and Aldren A. Watson, as well as drawings by Pieter de Hooch and Paul C
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