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by Ernest R. Norling (Author)
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Perspective is easy; yet surprisingly few artists know the simple rules that make it so. Now they can remedy that situation with this step-by-step book, the first devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective. Using over 250 simple line drawings, the author leads the reader through every important concept, from horizon to vanishing point to the crucial relationship of eye level to perspective drawing. 256 illus.

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  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: Dover Publications (January 19, 1999)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0486404730
  • ISBN-13: 978-0486404738
  • Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #10,158 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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90 of 91 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The one book on perspective you'll ever need., January 11, 2004
By M. E. Volmar (Santo Domingo, Distrito Nacional Dominican Republic) - See all my reviews
For a book first published in 1939, Norling's "Perspective Made Easy" is still the authority on perspective. This concise book contains in roughly 200 pages and 256 illustrations all you'll ever need to know about perspective drawing. In twenty masterfully organized chapters, from simple to complex, the author explains the basics and not so basics of perspective drawing. He includes suggestions on how to make your drawings a lot simpler, drawing methods for observation and space division, a Remember section at the end of each chapter in which he summarizes the most important information and principles presented in that chapter, and a Problems section with exercises that will help you apply what you just learned. One of the best rewards of this book comes in its last chapters where the author covers perspective drawing for a great number of regular and irregular figures like a sphere, a cone, ovals, circles, lamps, cars, etc. With this the author goes many steps beyond all those other books out there that only teach you how to draw cubes and square buildings.
The book may be a bit repetitive at times, but this is not annoying at all, it just makes the author sound as if he was teaching a class in school or college, and it helps you to easily remember the most important information presented. After reading this book my understanding of perspective and the perspective in my drawings have improved 100%. If you follow his teachings and exercises you will learn how to determine the perspective you need to apply to your drawing, whether you are drawing in the field or using photographs as a model, and you will soon start making your drawings look solid, deep and proportionate.
If you are only getting one book on perspective, get this one.
--Reviewed by Maritza Volmar
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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent introduction for beginning artists!, March 12, 2003
By Carlo R. Montoya "Toy photographer" (Cebu City, Cebu Philippines) - See all my reviews
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I bought this book because Andrew Loomis (Figure Drawing For All Its Worth) recommended it. I'm glad I followed his advice. If you are going to own only one perspective book, then this is it. However, if you're an interior designer, architect, engineer or draftsman then looks elsewhere since this book's primary audiences are freehand artists.

This is one of the few books out in the market that exactly delivers what it says on the back cover. And it's a reprint from 1939!

I'd give this book a rating of more than 5.

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64 of 67 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars EZ to Understand, Priceless Improvement in my Drawings, December 12, 2001
I can highly recommend this handbook to anybody who likes to draw. Through small, easy to follow steps, with illustrations for each step(!), this classic author makes this highly misunderstood topic become CRYSTAL CLEAR!

You can follow along, drawing each step, or just read through the book, (like I did), and you will still find yourself applying these techniques that make your drawings much more realistic and accurate looking.

In the introduction, the author says that we should not FORCE our drawings to fit into any rigid rules of perspective, but after reading this book, I find that I don't have to force the perspective rules, I can just subtly apply them as I go about my drawings.

The author has very nice, cute, and simple illustrations of his own, to show what he's talking about in each step of the process of understanding perspective correctly. This makes the book feel very user-friendly.

This book covers a lot of ground and information, but if you take your time and start at the beginning, you will reap big results with your own improved drawings.

Comparing price to benefit, this is easily the best value of any art technique book that I have ever purchased. Buy with confidence, this book amazing!

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4.0 out of 5 stars helped me with art class
This book was shown by my art teacher as a good reference for drawing perspectives. This book has helped, but is a bit hard to understand what it is telling you to do. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Always learning

4.0 out of 5 stars Very good basic book on perspective.
I like this book it's covers pretty much everything the average drawing student needs and if you really want more I would suggest d'amelio's book. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Phil Morin

4.0 out of 5 stars good help!
I found this book to be very simple and step-by -step written.A really good help for me as an art teacher!
Published 3 months ago by M. Lövland

5.0 out of 5 stars Persoectuve Made Easy
Excellent Title for this book, it really is "PERSPECTIVE
MADE EASY" ---- shows HOW lines and shapes can come together
to form Perspective and it is written simple and... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Luisa Felix

5.0 out of 5 stars Very useful
It's great that this book is going to be reprinted again, since its first publication in 1939. It's a very useful book. Read more
Published 6 months ago by Parka

5.0 out of 5 stars Perspective made easy
This book is just what I needed, it is easy to read and the information was simple and was of a good informative standard. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Rory

4.0 out of 5 stars good basic instruction
A good read, reiterates the importance of perspective for the amateur sketcher..very easy to understand and incorporate the principles in my work.
Published 10 months ago by Claire Daneman

5.0 out of 5 stars the title says it all
first off, I'm not an artist.
I wanted to learn perspective for drawing construction details.
I've had a book for years that I've tried to read at various times but... Read more
Published 10 months ago by M. Blakeslee

5.0 out of 5 stars My review
Even though it does not appeat to the eye at first, the content is very, very good and teaches a lot. Read more
Published 12 months ago by M. Shahar

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for Interior Design
This book just wasn't for me. Maybe I expected too much after reading all the praise for this book. But I found the explanations insufficient, most of the time I had to look at... Read more
Published 12 months ago by Fatma Dincsoy

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