Understanding Perspective (The Urban Sketching Handbook)

Learn how to put the 3D world on the 2D page with The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective. Learn about depth, scale, contrast, composition, and more.

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective provides keys to help make the experience of drawing with the proper perspective fun and rewarding, using composition, depth, scale, contrast, line and creativity.

About this Series             Introduction  KEYS             I   BASICS                         Tools                            Terms                           Proportions and Measuring                               II   BASIC SPATIAL PRINCIPLES                         Diminishing                               Converging                         Foreshortening             III  TYPES OF PERSPECTIVES                         View Eye Levels                                     “Eye Level” Aerial or Bird’s-Eye Level                                     Worm’s-Eye Level                         View Angles                                     One-Point Perspective                                     Two-Point Perspective                                     Multiple Vanishing Points                                  IV  BUILD A SKETCH IN LAYERS                                     Shape of the Face                                     Shape of the Space                                     Shape of the Box             V  MORE PERSPECTIVE                         Circles and Ellipses                         Arches                         Domes                         Reflections GALLERIES                         Wide-Angle in Perspective                         Texture in Perspective                         Painting in Perspective                         Learning in Perspective Contributing Artists About the Author Acknowledgments