Here Phil Metzger gives you clear-cut guidelines in everyday terms - with a lot of friendliness and a little humor tossed in along the way. As an experienced artist, he understands how you work, and he knows that the last thing you need is a lot of rigid rules to tie you down. Here you'll learn techniques of perspective that will help your creativity - not hinder it.
- Achieve the illusion of depth by gradually diminishing the sizes of - and the distance between - similar objects
- Use soft edges and less detail on objects in the background to make them seem farther away
- Introduce depth simply by manipulating color and value
- Draw from any viewpoint - on either side, above or below
- Draw accurate angles without complicated measuring devices