Perspective

 Learning the basics of perspective drawing is useful for anyone learning to draw figures and there are a few e-books on the website which teach the rules of perspective drawing.

Sometimes bending the rules creates interesting and great art. One artist who does that and seems to bend reality itself in his work is Friedhard Kiekeben.

He came to my attention because he purchased the e-book: An Introduction to Perspective Drawing and Painting.


Check out his web site, he has an interesting view on perspective and its constraints.
friedhardkiekeben.com and he has another very valuable site on which he shares his experiments and experience in non toxic printmaking nontoxicprint.com.


 Friedhard Kiekeben contributed to this book on printmaking: The Contemporary Printmaker: Intaglio-Type and Acrylic Resist Etching

Traite de Perspective is another old book on perspective drawing by Edme Sebastien Jeaurat (1725-1803). He was a French architect and Royal engineer-geographer. His course on perspective was the standard text book in France in the 18th century.

Drawing in Perspective

Edme-Sebastien Jearat's Traite de Perspective. Is now available as a printed book from Lulu.com.


Edme Sebastien Jeaurat (1725-1803), was a French architect and Royal engineer-geographer. His course on perspective was the standard text book in France in the 18th century.

An astronomer, and the son of an engraver, Jeaurat demonstrated talent for drawing, but also mathematics. In 1746, he won a prize drawing of the Academy of painting.

In 1749 as and engineer and geographer to the King he prepared the large map of France.

In 1750, he wrote a treatise on perspective. In 1753 he became a professor of mathematics at the Military Academy. In the same year he is appointed to the Academy of Sciences. Jeaurat made calculations on the movements of planets, and observed the comets of 1759 and 1760.

Many of his writings are related to astronomy, they appeared in the Collection of foreign scholars (1763) and the memoirs of the Academy of Sciences Pars (1763-88). Jeaurat also wrote twelve volumes of knowledge of time. He died in 1803 in Paris.


This ebook is now available as a printed book.
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Books at Amazon.com


Anatomy and Perspective: The Fundamentals of Figure Drawing (Dover Books on Art Instruction, Anatomy)

Traite De Perspective a L'Usage Des Artistes the original book at Amazon.com for $1200.

Traite de Perspective

Traité De Perspective À L'Usage Des Artistes: Où L'On Démontre Géométriquement Toutes Les Pratiques De Cette Science, & Où L'On Enseigne, Selon La Méthode ... Dans L'Eau, & Leu (French Edition)

 
Perspective for Artists (Dover Art Instruction and Reference Books)

Perspective Drawing

Everything you wanted to know about perspective drawing:
Perspective Seen from Different Points of View.
And

Drawing Aids to Perspective : 'Alberti's Veil' to today's 'Spectra Sketch', including Leon Battista Alberti's Grid.

Figure-Drawings.com - Learn How to Draw Perspective.

More links about Perspective Drawing

I came across this web page: Spherical Perspective by Rob Adams. It explains why the traditional linear rules of perspective are not sufficient to describe the way we really see things, especially the way we see things in panoramic view.

The site reminded me of the work of one of my teachers, Rackstraw Downes.  Here's a site with a number of examples of his work: Simplistic Art - The works of Rackstraw Downes. You can get a book of Rackstraw's work:  Rackstraw Downes by Sanford Schwartz, Robert Storr, Rackstraw Downes.

Finally, I came across examples from an old book on  perspective drawing: "PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE - or Perspective made Easie" published in 1670 by Joseph Moxon. Here are two  examples from the

 book plus an interesting pop-up illustrating the observer looking though the picture plane  which is illustrated in so many ways in Traite de Perspective a l'usage des Artistes.

Find a copy of Practical Perspective at Abebooks.com .

Enter the search term "Perspective made Easie."