Download or read book Perspective Drawing Handbook written by Joseph D'Amelio and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handy guide to perspective drawing provides important information on such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing. Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn illustrations that depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level, and explain such concepts as appearance versus reality, perspective distortion, and determining heights and widths.