Framed Perspective Vol. 1: Technical Perspective and Visual Storytelling
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A practical guide on building perspective from a seasoned graphic artist and author.
Perspective is a discipline often set aside when it comes to general art study, though it is essential to master in order to produce any piece of art that is and feels realistic.
Framed Perspective Vol. 1 equips artists with the technical knowledge needed to produce successful visual storytelling-related drawings; from understanding the basics of the space around us and how we perceive it, all the way to more sophisticated endeavors, like creating entire locations that will become the believable set ups our characters and stories will happen within.
As intimidating as perspective may seem, best-selling author and artist Marcos Mateu-Mestre delivers each lesson in an accessible and informative way that takes the mystery out of achieving successful scenes. The book includes extensive step-by-step practical explanations of how to build objects and environments of all sorts, taking that first sketch to a fully rendered artwork with many of his finished illustrations as examples.
Sure to be the most popular book in your art library, it will train you to see the world in a way that allows you to enjoy every curve and slope you see in it and, more importantly, translate that vision into art with accuracy and a great sense and understanding of depth and proportion.
Your perspective will never be the same!
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Izzy –
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Beautiful book, I’d gotten it a few months ago and have learned so much. It’s also a lot thicker than I thought it was gonna be! Tons of information inside!!
Dion Celebrado –
I devoured this book in about a day but none the less, it’s one that It’ll keep on dog-earing for a long time to come. I was impressed right away. After 15 pages I started looking at things differently; brain shifted; eyes open. This book doesn’t just teach you how to draw in perspective: It teaches you how to think about the object(s); how to “see” it and understand the spacial reasoning behind the technique before you deploy the technical method. What a gift.
Amazon Customer –
Excepcional libro ! Quiero aprender perspectiva y te lo explica con muchos dibujos, lo que hace que sea muy fácil de entender !!! Realmente es Muy didáctico !! La verdad, me he llevado una gran sorpresa ya que no me esperaba que un libro técnico fuese tan completo y sirve para todos los niveles.
Se lo recomiendo a tod@s.
Mac –
Feel disappointed to receive the book spine with slight dent at its top, but tear at its bottom. The inside paper quality are well printed. The author explained the technicalities of visual story.
Astrid Garcia –
Great book. This series is probably the best drawing course you can get for the money very detailed.
Ivy Reisner –
This is the most amazing book on perspective I’ve ever seen.
It starts with the basics, draw a cube in two point perspective, blah blah, the same as every drawing book that talks about perspective, but then it goes into some interesting variations and twists. Some are somewhat standard, such a bird’s eye view, or how a would room look if you were looking at it from an overhead camera. Some less so. Imagine you want to draw a room where the wall on one side is in perspective and there is a picture hanging on the wall. Easy, right? Not imagine that picture is crooked. How do you keep perspective without the lines being perpendicular to the floor? What about if you’re looking at a room reflected in a distorted mirror. That kind of thing is covered here.
It ends with some very complex variations, but it starts with the absolute basics and progresses gradually in a well-structured manner where each chapter builds upon the last.
That said, this is not a book I think I can read once and be done with it. I feel like I want to take what I’ve learned, practice, then go back and review, and I think I’ll end up doing that a few times before I’ve gotten all I can out of it. There is a lot of material here.
AmazonCustomer –
Best easy to understand perspective yet
Fizzle –
This is just a great work all around about spacial geometry, light, and the human mind and the human eye. I am horrible at art but this books shows what is missing from my nervous system, methods, ways to know and divide space and how to orient scenes so that they look professional. Some of this seems to come natural to some people. NOT ME! NOT ME AT ALL!!
AmazonCustomer –
Framed Perspective is one of those canonical books where you eventually stop flagging every insightful page because you’ll just end up flagging the entire book (see photo).
The author has an unparalleled ability to communicate what previously felt like impenetrable concepts with relative ease. He accomplishes this through a bevy of practical, incisive examples that make you wonder why you were ever intimidated by perspective in the first place.
And the book is structured brilliantly. Each chapter builds seamlessly on the previous one to the point where whatever question you have in your head is invariably asked and then answered (thoroughly!) as soon as you turn the page.
I already had sky-high expectations (Framed Ink changed the way I think about composition), but those were easily exceeded. Together, Framed Perspective volumes 1 and 2 are far and away the best resource on perspective I’ve ever found, and I’m extremely grateful to the author for sharing his valuable knowledge and insight.
An amazing resource!
Adventurer –
Me gusto muchísimo
Emmie –
One of the best books specifically for comics that I’ve read on the subject. One of the best things about this book compared to others is that MArcos makes it look easy even when he’s teaching more advanced technical aspects of perspective. That’s something I haven’t seen from other books in quite the same way. Perspective books tend to be headache-inducingly technical and boring, mind-numbingly patronizing in their attempt at simplicity, or they hold your hand through the basics, then de-pants you and kicks you into the deep end. This book is none of that! It starts out by quickly guiding you through the basics and on through 1, 2, and 3 point perspective, sharing glimpses of what’s to come along the way, then jumps right into tangible applications. It teaches what you need to know to make comics, and doesn’t waste time on other aspects of perspective you can learn elsewhere if you really want to know.
I also recommend Vol 2. It feels like they were supposed to be one book, but it would have been too thick of a book to lay open and study from (That’s just my personal thought, i don’t know why they split it up). Back to the content, it’s clear, concise, plenty of illustrated examples to go along with well-written text. There’s a few step-by-step examples for more complex illustration problems as well. Again, I highly recommend getting both Vol 1 and 2. Start with 1 to develop a solid foundation for these concepts. Once you’ve mastered everything in Vol 1, then Vol 2 will be easier to grasp, and you’ll be more effective at implementing what you learn.
Perspective is a dense subject though. While this book is in the top of it’s class, it doesn’t cover everything, it can’t. But it’s a fantastic introduction to the basics, through to intermediate and advanced techniques as well. It will definitely give you the tools to fill in the rest on your own if you desire to get even deeper into mastering the art of perspective.
Jane Eyre –
This book is surprisingly dense with experience from Marcos Mateu-Mestre on perspective figures and examples. Just like a cooking book, Marcos goes step by step on how to use the horizon line, and guidelines to create anything in the correct perspective. From time to time, one can get lost in the plethora of text, but none of it is useless. The overall transition of information from orderly rectangles to weird angles and more organic shapes is well thought out. I hope Marcos continues to write more reference books of similar caliber! Framed Ink is also a good complement to this series. My only recommendation to him is maybe break up the structure of text block information into bullet steps somehow… so it’s not too jumpy from figure image to block text all the time.
Leticia –
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If you want to bring your technical drawing skills to the next level, more specifically skills on rendering perspective, this is the book to get. This book is great for comic book artists and basically any illustrator that has to incorporate perspective in their drawing.
The author Marcos Mateu-Mestre is a veteran designer and artist with more than 20 years of experience. He has worked for DreamWorks, does layout, storyboard, visual concept and development. In short, he’s a professional of the highest level. Kudos to him for sharing his knowledge in this thick 228-page paperback.
This book covers perspective in detail, way more detailed than any other instructional book on perspectives that I’ve seen. There’s a lot of technical talk but always concise and easy to understand. The examples are easy to follow along, and his art is just fantastic.
Just like Scott Robertson’s books, I would consider this an essential book for comic artists, illustrators and concept artists.
Volume 1 of Frame Perspective covers all the basics of perspective. Volume 2 covers shadows and characters.
(See more pictures of the book on my blog. Just visit my Amazon profile for the link.)