Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Drawing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page by David Chelsea


Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Drawing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page
Title : Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Drawing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page
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ISBN : 0823026655
ISBN-10 : 9780823026654
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 176
Publication : First published February 15, 2011

In this sequel to the classic bestseller Perspective! For the Comic Book Artist, David Chelsea takes perspective to a whole other level—by exploring the most dramatic viewpoints employed by today’s artists. Many of these techniques have been carefully guarded secrets for centuries. But David, and his hollow-headed friend, Mugg, make them accessible to a new generation of artists, cartoonists, illustrators, and animators. In Extreme Perspective! For Artists, you’ll learn how to
 
•         Render complicated multi-sided objects in perfect perspective
•         Create accurate shadows and reflections from your own imagination
•         Master the most difficult kinds of curvilinear perspective systems
•         Draw eye-popping images in fisheye perspective
•         Use your computer to create elaborate scenes quicker and more easily
•         … And much, much more!
 
Also included is a comprehensive library of perspective grids on DVD, suitable for printing or using with Photoshop and other applications.

Extreme Perspective! For Artists: Learn the Secrets of Curvilinear, Cylindrical, Fisheye, Isometric, and Other Amazing Drawing Systems that Will Make Your Drawings Pop Off the Page Reviews

  • Ietrio

    After all the dry books written by uninteresting and non-creative people on perspective, finally a book that is trying to be engaging. At least here you can see the creativity at work. Thank you.

  • Eric Basir

    An important book for artists with experience. I learned alot regarding what goes into extreme perspectives. The edition that includes a DVD of the files is the perfect compliment to the knowledge and theory you read about. The DVD includes a good instruction read me file to help you choose appropriate grids. Definitely read the entire book before using the templates on the DVD. It's a fast read, albeit technical. I have used one of the fish-eye grids for my graphic novel and plan to use more for other illustrations. I won't use it for everything (it is extreme-smile). However, when I need to use it, I now know exactly what to use and how it work. I think any artist could benefit from this book.

  • Kalin

    This book was trying too hard to present the content in a fun way. It uses a comic book format with a strange character that has a mug for a head and the drawings are tiny and hard to see. The dialogue was annoying and I had a very hard time understanding the concepts that were presented because of this. The only reason I own this book is because it covers extreme perspective topics which I couldn't find much about in other books and I gave it 3 stars for that reason.

  • Mycala

    Excellent advice for difficult perspectives, although truth be told if I had to go through all of these meticulous steps for every project I worked on, I probably wouldn't get much drawing done. Even so, this is one of those must-have books for my reference bookshelf.

  • April Hung

    it teaches concepts that are rarely touched upon by other perspective books, but the way it teaches them is quite confusing.

  • Mike Gallagher

    Entertaining, but confusing.