Basic Drawing Made Amazingly Easy (Made Amazingly Easy Series)

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To draw objects with hard angles, such as tables, chairs, desks, houses —and even smaller objects such as books, frames, or jewe ...

Notice how narrow the ovals become when they are viewed sideways. That’s the effect perspective has on ovals and circles. The mo ...

The oval at the base of the lampshade now appears to be just a sliver, hardly circular at all. This is because we’re viewing the ...

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Round off the bottom of the lamp stand to soften the look. ...

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The lampshade is also cone shaped, but much wider than the lamp body. You may not know the term one-point perspective, but you’l ...

Horizon line Vanishing point ...

You might be tempted to try drawing this couch by “eyeballing” it, hoping that it will come out right. Most likely, the final re ...

Vanishing lines Arms of the couch Make sure the diagonal lines travel back to the vanishing point. The surface of the arm of th ...

Draw a rounded back. Diagram of forces at work. ...

Now, erase the vanishing point and vanishing lines to arrive at a finished “rough.” ...

The pillows have been changed from rectangles to softened, more organic shapes, while the base of the couch remains firm and geo ...

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One-Point Perspective. Even though we are looking down at this block from an angle, the lines recede back straight along the mid ...

Vanishing lines One-Point Perspective. Looking up at the block, the vanishing lines still recede toward the center of the pictu ...

First set of vanishing lines Second set of vanishing lines Two-Point Perspective. The block is now turned so that a corner is f ...

Correct Vanishing Lines. The vanishing lines converge to a single point, creating a cube that looks like a cube in real space. I ...