Chapter 2Creating Space

Perspective is all about accurate form and believable space, but it’s not the only player in town. There are many ways of showing depth – from how you arrange your shapes to how you use value. In this chapter, we’ll discuss and analyze the different ways we make and interpret space and form, building up to linear perspective.

Create Space Any Way You Can

As discussed in the previous chapter, perspective is just one of the many players used in the context of making a picture. It helps you show form accurately while unifying everything you draw from one particular viewpoint. In other words, perspective makes everything you draw look the way it’s supposed to when seen from a specific place. Still, while perspective can ...

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