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Perpective: A Step-By-Step Guide for Mastering Perspective by Using the Grid SystemBy Donald A. Gerds

For those students or professional interior designers, architects and designers who are interested in creative thinking and in expressing inventive ideas on paper. The book contains 72 pages plus ten 11x17 grids and ten 8 1/2 x 11 grids.

Contents:
  • A word about the grid system
  • Definitions
  • Perspective and geometry
  • Decisions to make first
  • Common mistakes
  • Finding the height of an object
  • The measuring line
  • Direct method
  • One point grid layout
  • Kitchen plan view
  • 45 Grid layout
    • House plan view
  • 30/60 Grid layout
    • Electronic desk plan view
  • 1 POINT / 2 POINT Grid layout
    • Office interior plan view
  • Changing the eye level
  • Circle in perspective
  • Spiral staircase
  • Standard staircase
  • Layout of curved surface
  • Shadows -general and traditional
    • Shadow- parallel method
    • Shadows- interiors
    • Shadows- exteriors
  • Reflections, mirrors and glass
    • Multi-vanishing points

Emphasis on the development of three-dimensional thinking through the use of perspective grids. A workbook of actual grids, which enable you to develop your ideas into a drawing. The grid system is as easy to use as a color-by-number drawing system. This method of getting right into drawing without being lost in a volume of reading material. Easier than balancing a check book.

Product Code: BOK001

$25.95 (+$5 shipping & handling)

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