Creative Perspective For Artists And Designers

Written for amateur artists and students, this is a guide to the creative use of perspective in all kinds of drawing, painting and design. It explains the basic concepts of perspective, surveys the historical context and shows how to draw common forms in perspective from different viewpoints, using step-by-step exercises. Towards the end of the book, complex illustrations are created and analyzed to prove that the perspective involved is not difficult. The book also includes a section on anatomy.

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 Cézanne. The result is a ground-breaking study that artists, illustrators, and draftsmen will find invaluable in learning to create works with convincing perspective. Ernest W. Watson taught at Pratt Institute for over 20 years, co-founded and served as editor-in-chief of the magazine American Artist, and co-founded the prestigious art publishing house of Watson-Guptill.

2022 Reprint of the 1955 Illustrated Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition and not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published as How to Use Creative Perspective. On this fascinating tour into the world of perspective one may simply look and marvel at the drawing techniques of Albert Dorne, Frank J. Reilly, Robert Fawcett and John Atherton, be inspired to get out sketch pad and instruments, or do something in between. The fact is Mr. Watson's book is indispensable to the student interested in perspective for artists and illustrators. It shows how such a master illustrator as Bobri, for example, can combine true perspective with actual violations of perspective to produce a convincing drawing. The book is equally indispensable to the draftsman, artist, and illustrator for solving those special perspective problems that arise to haunt him from time to time. In addition to all this, it is a gold mine of information about techniques. Watson was the editor of American Artist beginning in 1937. During his teaching career he taught drawing and design at Pratt Art School for over twenty years.

Think Like an Artist by BBC Arts editor Will Gompertz - wisdom and smart thinking from Da Vinci to Ai Weiwei Why do some people seem to find it easy to come up with brilliant, fresh ideas? And how do they turn them into something worthwhile? Will Gompertz, the BBC's Arts Editor and a former director at the Tate, has spent years getting up close and personal with some of the world's greatest creative thinkers. And he's discovered a handful of traits that are common to all successful people, from novelists and film directors to scientists and philosophers. These basic practices allow their talent to flourish. And they can be adopted by all of us - no matter what we do in life - to unleash our own latent creativity and help us achieve extraordinary things. It's time to Think Like An Artist. 'Will Gompertz is the best teacher you never had' Guardian As the BBC's Arts Editor, Will Gompertz has interviewed and observed many of the world's leading artists, directors, novelists, musicians, actors and designers. Creativity Magazine in New York ranked him as one of the 50 most original thinkers in the world. He is the author of the international bestselling art history book What Are You Looking At? which has been published in over 15 languages.

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Written for artists of all abilities, this book outlines the basic principles of perspective, then presents diagrams and illustrations showing how these principles are applied.

DIVConcisely written text accompanied by more than 150 simply drawn illustrations together demonstrate vanishing points and eye level and explain such concepts as appearance versus reality and perspective distortion. /div