ELEMENTARY PERSPECTIVE
The study of perspective is usually considered premature in the early stages of the study of drawing. This is true in its general sense; nevertheless, it is well at the outset in drawing from imagination or nature for the pupil to be taught a few of the rudiments of that branch of the art. It becomes necessary to study perspective in order to avoid distortion when drawing interior views, buildings, etc.
Importance of Perspective. Many are impressed with the belief that Perspective is the most dry and least interesting of any subject taught along the lines of illustrative art. This is a mistake. After having mastered the rudiments of perspective, further study becomes not alone interesting but easier with each step in the program.
However, to secure anything more than a superficial knowledge of perspective would entail the study of many volumes, and require knowledge of an apparently interminable array of rules and diagrams, the latter covered with perplexing tangles of dotted lines, projections and angles. Many of the so-called simple hand-books on perspective confuse the beginner with their complexity of detail.
Throughout this chapter the endeavor has been made to avoid complexity and to bring the lessons within the mental grasp of the ordinary student.
A knowledge of the principles of perspective is indispensable to everyone who intends to go to nature for his subjects. One may no more be able to make a good picture without some knowledge of perspective than to write a story without a smattering of the rudiments of grammar.
Perspective for Beginners Illustrated
The explanatory illustrations arc not intended as actual representations, but as aids to the study of the simplest rules in perspective.
Sections
- Action Drawing
- Advice To Teachers
- Beginners Instructions
- Blocking In
- Clay Modeling
- Copying By Triangulation
- Decorative Ornamental Art
- Drawing From Nature
- Early Exercises
- Elementary Lines
- Elementary Perspective
- Expression Emotion
- Foreshortening
- Geometrical Form
- How To Draw Animals
- How To Draw Cartoons
- How To Draw Charcoal Crayon
- How To Draw Flowers
- How To Draw Women Men Children
- Lettering
- Light And Shade
- Materials For Drawing
- Models Measurements Proportions
- Outlines For Beginners
- Paper Folding Cutting
- Pen And Ink Drawing
- Principles Of Composition
- Simple Story Pictures
- Solid Black Effects
- Stimulating Imagination
- Tracing Transferring
- Two Handed Exercises