Above all rules in perspective, the one to be ineradicably recorded on the mind more than all others is this : All receding lines above the horizon descend, and all lines below the horizon ascend to it.
In landscape drawing, to retain proportions in human figures that appear in the background, block out a figure in the near foreground and then project lines to the proper vanishing points from that figure. The figure in the first place must be made in proper proportions by comparison with some other object in the foreground. Then place the background figure in the space so projected.
Fig. 33, Exercise in Perspective. Draw a picture in which the main perspective problem involved is the horizon line.
Fig. 34, Exercise in Perspective. Draw a picture in which the main perspective problem involved is the point of sight.
Fig. 35, Exercise in Perspective. Draw a picture in which the main perspective problem involved consists of the horizon line and two vanishing points.
Figures in Perspective Atmospheric
The first object in a drawing such as a diminishing file of police (see Fig. 36) or a row of trees (see Fig. 37) should contain the most detail, the last, far distant, need be merely suggested. The eye is attracted by the first few figures and
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