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Perspective! For Comic Book Artists: How to Achieve a Professional Look in Your Artwork (Paperback)

by David Chelsea (Author) "Why bother to learn perspective at all?..." (more)
Key Phrases: comic book artists, picture plane, depth cues
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This clever book teaches artists the unique skill of drawing perspective for spectacular landscapes, fantastic interiors, and other wildly animated backgrounds to fit comic-strip panels.

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  • Paperback: 176 pages
  • Publisher: Watson-Guptill (October 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0823005674
  • ISBN-13: 978-0823005673
  • Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 7 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (38 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #113,726 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A great book for beginners and pros alike., July 29, 2001
By Karma (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
A tome about comic perspective in comics form, this book helped me discover new principles in perspective and the REASON for these principle. Not just for your scenery, human bodies in perspective are also covered... but you had better know anatomy before hand. The reason for the missing star is because Chelsea uses two forms of curvilinear perspective, but suspiciously absent is the chapter ON curvilinear. Even with this oversight, Chelsea has written an engaging and fairly complete perspective guide. Look closely at the icecubes on page 131 and try to find the hidden pictures!
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best perspective books, January 7, 2005
If you are a serious artist then you will probably have to study a few perspective books before you learn all you need to know about the subject. This book deserves to be in that collection. It covers the nuts and bolts of the correct methods for drawing in one, two and three point perspective and offers hints for shortcuts that you can use to build drawings with a perspective look, even if they are not technically accurate, when you have to work with a deadline.

What I like about the book is that it provides thorough context for understanding not just the how, but the reasons behind the perspective techniques. If you know the rules you can do it, but if you understand the context in depth you can make informed decisions about when to follow the painstaking rules and when to use the shortcuts.

The book is also written in a very approachable visual medium. Basically it is a comic book following in the tradition of Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics".

The book also includes some facinating bits of trivia about 3 point perspective, when it was developed and why, and the lengths that some artists, like M. C. Escher, had to go to in order to properly employ it.

The book has two shortcomings. The first is a consequence of its comic format, there are a large number of pages which present more character development than is strictly necessary to get the information across. By contrast, most perspective books are very condensed, explaining as much as can be explained with illustrations and diagrams. This not only goes into detailed discussion of perspective, its uses and theory, but does so within the voice baloons of two characters.

The second shortcoming is one that I can't think of any other perspective book that treats, that is, it leaves out curvileniar or 5 point perspective, though apparently the author is aware of this kind of perspective, he tantalizes us by using it in a couple of illustrations in the book.
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12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Not your average Take on Perspective, June 1, 2000
By "skunkbomb" (California, USA) - See all my reviews
I found this book extremely helpful, in more ways the one. Instead of your usual text with diagram format, it has a refreshing comic book format. This means that examples are almost always right there, WITH the text that discusses it - so you can absorb what's being talked about with out having the "break concentration" and look for the relevant connection between explanation and example. Also, rather than discuss only the "terminology" and the like, I found the explanations were geared so that anyone who can read could understand them - without a dictionary being close to hand! I'd highly recommend picking up this book - to the beginners and pros alike! The gains from it's knowledge are definately worth the price.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Frustrating! I still don't understand!
I needed a refresher on perspective so I picked up this book again which I have owned for years. I remember now why I never finished it, I can't understand it! Read more
Published 5 days ago by S

4.0 out of 5 stars One of the Two Perspective Books You'd Need to Get It
In my opinion, the only perspective book (of the many I've looked through) that covers practically EVERYTHING is Vanishing Point by Jason Cheeseman-Meyer; that one goes into just... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Jim Gray

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best texts on perspective
While the title says that this is a book on perspective for comic artists, it is actually a very good book on perspective for ANY artist. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Thomas Luth

3.0 out of 5 stars Great, I didn't learn perspective at all, but great anyway
If you are looking to learn how to render great backgrounds for comics of your own, this may be not the best option.... look, I really enjoyed the book. Read more
Published 10 months ago by R. CORDOVA

1.0 out of 5 stars Incomprehensible
I purchased this book for it's intended purpose, to aid in the production of realistic comic books. Apart from it's routine treatment of one, two and three point perspective... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Comic Book Guy

5.0 out of 5 stars Very well done, superb quality
I've really come to appreciate such high quality work. This book ranks near the top for providing effective, entertaining, clear instruction at a level that will not disappoint... Read more
Published 13 months ago by top reviewer

1.0 out of 5 stars Waste of paper.
Since I'm a storyboard artist I like a good book on perspective; I bought this one. What a disappointment. It only teaches the basics, and takes a long time doing it. Read more
Published 13 months ago by 'Strue

4.0 out of 5 stars Very complicated, poorly organised, but lots of interesting pictures for reference.

Positive aspects of the book: Unique style- comic book form. Lots of interesting pictures.

Negative aspects of the book: the writer is autistic to his... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Megalex

5.0 out of 5 stars Perspective Book
This is the DEFINITIVE book on Perspective.
With Vertical and Horizontal lines drawn in,
it really illustrates what Perspective is. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Luisa Felix

3.0 out of 5 stars cartonon perspective
this is a good book, but for the beginner who is interested in drawing comics in perspective i would recommend vanishing point by jason cheeseman-meyer. Read more
Published 15 months ago by virginiia woolf

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