Perspective! for Comic Book Artists
by David Chelsea · Watson-Guptill
A textbook drawn as a comic, working through horizon line, station point, cone of vision and one- through three-point construction, then extending into curvilinear systems and full environment layout inside panel borders. One of the few accessible books that actually names and uses the station point and cone of vision rather than skipping to vanishing points.
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