Volume III: Perspective
Sketchbook Saga - Volume III: Perspective "It's all about the angles." This was the most common phrase I heard when I was working in the photography industry. And it truly is "all about the angles." Anyone can capture an image, but when you take a picture in a way the audience hasn't seen the subject before, it evokes emotion and drives a greater appreciation. When learning perspective this was my grounding. The goal in drawing from different angles is to exaggerate one section or to put emphasis on it. An artist can draw the audience's eye to whichever part of the drawing they want to if they know how to execute it correctly. The most common, and challenging form I see is something called foreshortening. Most know that the eye perceives smaller objects as farther away. But in drawing there isn't a large canvas to work with like your field of view. traditionally you get an 11.5 x 6.5in piece of paper to show the distance between different portions ...