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DAY 91 | ART 101 |
Linear Perspective
THE ILLUSION OF SPACE, PART 1
One of the most exciting aspects of drawing and painting is that you can transport the viewer to any place you wish, whether it involves re-creating a landscape from life or fashioning a scene from your own imagination. To help you convincingly represent these locations to the viewer, it’s important to know the basics of linear perspective—a geometric framework for representing a scene or three-dimensional object on a flat surface (such as your paper). The system is based on the fact that objects appear to shrink and parallel lines converge as they move into the distance. ...
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