Composition and Perspective

By Shirish D

Do you want to draw and paint beautiful illustrations with an accurate perspective?

Are you intimidated by all those mathematical calculations a typical book about perspective drawing contains? Do you feel that all these calculations hinder your creative drawing process?

Then this book s definitely for you. In this book, you will discover the magic of Composition and Perspective for drawing and painting beautiful, expressive artworks.

Learn to draw amazingly fun sketches and paintings using easy-to-use, yet powerful techniques for solid compositions and accurate perspective.

Learn the basics of composition and perspective such as:
- Nine 'rules' of composition
- Horizon
- Vanishing points
- Foreshortening
- Picture plane
- One-point perspective
- Two-point perspective
- Three-point perspective
- Five-point (Fisheye) perspective
- Atmospheric perspective

Never again get bogged down by the technicality of perspective drawing. Rather, learn to enjoy expressive sketching while maintaining a sense of the correct perspective and beautiful composition.

And that's not all!

Along with several artworks, you will find links to FREE video demonstrations where the author shows you exactly how these artworks were created.

So, let's go ahead and see the world from a new perspective!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Shirish D
• Release date: Jul 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781393613060

Shirish D

Shirish D (1974 till now, and counting) is a self-taught artist from India. Information Technology is one of the expertise of Shirish, but his heart (and mind) is completely devoted to art. Shirish dabbles in sketching and painting in various media like pen&inks, watercolors, acrylics, oils and spray paints. He paints various subjects like landscapes, portraits, urban sketches; and figures & nudes. Shirish also does video production for various art-related courses that he publishes on various platforms, and has taught thousands of students worldwide. Shirish believes in having no limits to living an artistic life and has now jumped into the wonderful world of books to share his passion for visual arts to art lovers of the world.

Book preview

COMPOSITION AND PERSPECTIVE

A simple, yet powerful guide to draw

stunning, expressive sketches.

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Copyright ©2018 by

HuesAndTones Media and Publishing

Author: Shirish Deshpande

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system without written permission of the author, except for the inclusion of brief quotations in a review.

All artworks presented in this book are copyright of the artist, regardless of whether they bear the artist’s signature or not.

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Table of Contents

Title Page

INTRODUCTION

A Note Before You Begin

Who Is This Book For?

What Is This Book About?

Stop Reading This Book Now If…

Materials

PART 1 - COMPOSITION

Why Composition?

‘Rules’ of Composition

‘Rule’ #1: Balance (or the lack of it)

‘Rule’ #2: Rule of thirds

‘Rule’ #3: Overlapping

‘Rule’ #4: Foreground, Middleground, and Background

‘Rule’ #5: Frame within frame

‘Rule’ #6: Leading the viewer’s eye

‘Rule’ #7: ‘Sizing’ the elements

‘Rule’ #8: Emphasizing and de-emphasizing elements (visual weight)

‘Rule’ #9: Using white space/negative space/empty space

An example of all the ‘rules’ working together

PART 2 – PERSPECTIVE CONCEPTS

What Is Perspective?

Why Perspective Is Important?

Cornerstones of Perspective

Horizon

Picture Plane (also called ‘cone of vision’)

Distance, Size, and Clarity (and Aerial Perspective)

Distance and Relative Distance

Foreshortening

Vanishing Point

PART 3 – DRAWING PERSPECTIVE SKETCHES

One-point Perspective

One-point Perspective - Curves and Challenges

Two-point Perspective

Three-point Perspective

Five-point Perspective

PARTING WORDS AND ABOUT THE AUTHOR …

INTRODUCTION

Bonus: Want to see how this picture was sketched in all its colorful glory? Then head over to https://tinyurl.com/y9q5gsqd (or use the QR code given below) to watch the complete video of the making of this sketch. And don’t forget to subscribe to the channel!

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Busy Cityscape

(Pen, inks, watercolors)

A Note Before You Begin

Throughout this book, you will come across YouTube links below several artworks. These are marked as ‘Bonus’. These links lead to the demonstration videos for the respective artworks.

Are you reading a paper version of this book (or an e-book version on an e-ink device)? Then typing all these links on a video-capable device like a phone/tab/PC may prove to be a bit tedious for you.

But no worries!

I have provided a QR code against each URL, which you can use to access the video contents.

Alternatively, you can directly head over to the web page mentioned below. This page contains the complete list of YouTube links in this book. Click on the artwork image for which you want to see the demonstration, and you will be redirected to the respective video.

And the best part? This bonus material is absolutely FREE!

Type the following URLs in your browser window (or use the QR code).

https://HuesAndTones.net/pages/cp-links/

Who Is This Book For?

The focus of this book is on sketching and painting. So, at first glance, it may seem that this book is only for the benefit of sketchers and painters.

But the concepts of composition and perspective are universal. They apply to all kind of visual art.

Are you interested in any kind of visual art like sketching, painting, photography or filmmaking?