Chapter 5The Setup in Action

We’re almost there. So far, we’ve been concentrating on the viewer, but now it’s time to talk about what happens on the other side of the picture plane. When we’re done, we’ll have enough information to begin drawing in perspective. In this chapter, we’ll go over the remaining vocabulary, complete the perspective setup, and go through the drawing process step by step.

More Vocabulary

Now that we’ve discussed how the setup relates to the viewer, we need to talk about how it relates to your subject matter. We have a few more things to review before we start to draw in perspective.

Vanishing Point – Vanishing points represent the spot on the horizon where the parallel lines of our forms seem to converge. Remember, ...

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