Master perspective like the pros! Vanishing Point shows you how to conquer the fundamentals of perspective drawing and then equips you with technical tricks and tools that make dynamic and complex scenes a snap. This complete guide helps you build your understanding of perspective to an intuitive level so you can draw anything you can imagine. Inside you'll find: Complete instruction on drawing in one-, two- and three-point perspective and four- and five-point curvilinear perspective (where "straight" lines are drawn as curves). Curvilinear perspective has not been taught in any other perspective book - until now! Full-color, step-by-step demonstrations move you beyond the theories and let you practice the techniques in real scenes. A special chapter on drawing curves helps you break out of the box and draw cylinders, ellipses, cars and, most importantly, people in perfect perspective. Shortcuts and tips show you how to create believable perspective in no time flat. No matter what your skill level, Vanishing Point offers you a new way of looking at perspective and lets you draw as though you have decades of drawing experience - even if you don't. You'll learn everything you need to know to pour your imagination on the page with power and confidence.
In this eerie and evocative novel, Elizabeth Brundage establishes herself as one of the premiere authors of literary fiction at work today.
The #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Relic takes readers on an out-of-this-world road trip. The Sonderberg family does not know it yet, but this is not going to be any ordinary road trip.
And readers are again left to marvel at her ingenuity.” —Jay Strafford, Richmond Times-Dispatch From one of the finest crime writers we have, The Vanishing Point kicks off with a nightmare scenario—the abduction of a child in an ...
Years after an inexplicable incident during which ninety percent of the human population disappeared without a trace, the survivors make peace with each other, defending themselves against roving fanatics and investigating the Vanishing.
Hannah Powers journeys to seventeenth-century colonial Maryland to be with her sister and, after learning that her sister has died, she falls in love with her brother-in-law despite her feeling that he is lying about her sister's fate.
This volume casts a retrospective glance from this vantage point, tracing acts of resistance and defiance over the last three decades within the realm of the moving image.
After dropping out of art school Andy finds himself unemployed and living with his overbearing parents, but things become more interesting when he is offered an unknown job from two strange out of towners.
“Uh, please come in, Mrs. Bennett. This is Kate. Kate, Mrs. Bennett is a cousin of Martin Quinlan's.” “Second cousin.” “A second cousin of Martin Quinlan's, you know, the man who owned the—” “I remember,” said Kate.
In a new novel that playfully deconstructs the novel, the author exposes himself--and the absurdities and tragedies of the creative life--in a funny, satirical, sometimes painful sendup of the novelist at work. Original.
Superman, Green Lantern, and Booster Gold enlist the aid of Time Master Rip Hunter for a time-traveling mission to rescue Bruce Wayne, while Despero, Black Beetle and other villains plot to take control of the timestream in their absence.