Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction) by Ernest R. Norling, Art Instruction
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Book Reviews of Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)
Book Review: EZ to Understand, Priceless Improvement in my Drawings
Summary: 5 Stars
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!
Book Review: A promise that is fulfilled.
Summary: 5 Stars
As a representational painter I find that a sound knowledge of perspective is of paramount importance and I cannot blame modernist art enough for the damage it has done to generations of painters by ignoring and teaching to ignore perspective .
Over the years I have collected an impressive number of books about perspective, from 15th century manuals to modern textbooks. All of them are fascinating but rather complex and tend to discourage the reader after a few chapters.
Norling's book, on the contrary, is beautifully simple without being superficial. It teaches the aspiring artist all the tricks with a simple language and without burdening him or her with exceedingly complicated rules and formulas. It is equally useful to the experienced artist that wants to refresh some difficult points.
An honest book that delivers all that it promises, that is how to make perspective easy.
Book Review: one handy reference
Summary: 5 Stars
What a bargain this book is! I'm teaching myself to draw and this book explained to me in the simplest language possible (and with plenty of helpful illustrations) how to tackle the challenges of drawing in perspective. I really like how the author explains how to draw circles in perspective, how to place people into a two-point perspective scene, and how to evenly divide circles and rectangles so that you can draw in things like the spokes of an umbrella or evenly-spaced windows. There's even a section on reflections that's worth reading. You don't really need to know much about geometry nor do you need fancy tools to try out the exercises in this book either.
Overall this is a great beginner's book and one handy reference to have nearby when you're working on your illustrations.
Book Review: Excellent!... It's my #2 choice in my Top 3 perspective books...
Summary: 5 Stars
Simple & effective! These drawings might look somewhat dated, but there's a consistent *simplicity* to the style & teaching here that really grew on me over time. Simplicity is the *main* reason I like it now. So many books get overly complicated or provide lots of information that may be good but not really necessary. This book keeps very much to the point. And it's surprisingly effective! Created in 1939- not many books can survive the test of time like this. Still, I wouldn't go so far as to say it's the only perspective book you'll ever need, and as much as I like this, I have other favorites too. My current Top 3 perspective books being: Perspective Drawing Handbook; Perspective Made Easy; and then Perspective! for Comic Book Artists. All 3 still available today!Book Review: easiest way to learn perspective
Summary: 5 Stars
It's funny that reviewers are saying that this book still holds up for being written in 1939, as if our eyeballs have evolved since then.
Using easily understood language the book starts with the basics, and each chapter therafter builds on these basics while adding new techniques and ideas. These topics are reinforced by a remember section at the end of each chapter, along with some problems to work out in your drawings. What's useful is all the explanations are real world examples that you can see for yourself, like the height of the horizon and locating vanishing points. At the end of the book is a summary of all the topics covered, each topic is condensed to one sentence, talk about concise. This is the clearest book on any subject I've ever read.