Artists' Master Series: Perspective and Depth

Always good to get some educational inspiration. Never too old to stop learning. I found the negative reviews for this book patently unwarranted, and I’m not sure what they were based upon. I would buy any book in this series without hesitation.

The first one in this series was great, and the second one was already sloppy, but here, I checked the preview first; this was a good idea to do. I will wait for the 2nd edition before suggesting this as a Trainer to others.The first 27 pages have so many shortcomings in allowing the reader to fully use perspective constructions that I needed to write this down. Most Perspective books are on that low level, in all fairness, this here seems to be a quick copy of the technical part.Let's hope some editor with more elan can work on the 2nd edition. I love the publisher, but here, it failed miserably.Besides some advanced degrees, I have an MFA and learned perspective from one of the best teachers. So, I'm not even pretending that it is my knowledge that I lean here against this book as a measurement.Edit: after some discussions, I got the Kindle version; here is my finding:Page 76 (kindle version) confuses the beginner even more with a tip that misses any build-up to be understood fully. At the same time, it is placing the idea of more vanishing points into the "weird" category.Well, when looking at image 11a on page 217, there is hope, as this artist understands it, but sadly doesn't give it away. Guweiz might be the key to a great 2nd entity. I hope the editor gets Guweiz's support.Otherwise, the content is less powerful in demonstrating the target of the book's title. So, I keep it at two stars. I will keep it to showcase how things can go awry. /edit

Not as good as past entries. There are a few short examples of perspective using simple boxes and as for foreshortening, instead of showing how it can be applied to limbs or the environment, some round balls will have to suffice. A good 3/4ths of the book are step by step tutorials from artists who've featured in prior books with one of them being an extreme character close up and not really fitting with the theme of the book.I feel it would have been better for newer and more advanced artists if they included more ways to scenebuild or place characters and introduce depth and complex perspective.

Another beautiful publication by 3dtotal who plant a tree for every book sold. If you love reading about art from other artists’ ‘perspective’ this wont disappoint.