Understanding Perspective (The Urban Sketching Handbook)

Stephanie Bower worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. She taught the how-to’s of architectural location sketching for over twenty-five years in New York City at Parsons and in Seattle at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts. She has two online sketching classes at Craftsy.com, and she travels and teaches perspective and watercolor workshops internationally, including at six Urban Sketchers symposiums. People around the world follow her sketches online via Instagram @stephanieabower and Facebook, and she is an international blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. Stephanie is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She is the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective (2016) and The Urban Sketching Handbook: 101 Sketching Tips (2019), and co-author of The Urban Sketching Art Pack (2017) and The Complete Urban Sketching Companion (2020), all published by Quarry Books. Visit her website stephaniebower.com, blog drawingperspectives.com, and Instagram account @stephaniebower. She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Learn how to put the 3D world on the 2D page with The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective. Learn about depth, scale, contrast, composition, and more.

About this Series             Introduction  KEYS             I   BASICS                         Tools                            Terms                           Proportions and Measuring                               II   BASIC SPATIAL PRINCIPLES                         Diminishing                               Converging                         Foreshortening             III  TYPES OF PERSPECTIVES                         View Eye Levels                                     “Eye Level” Aerial or Bird’s-Eye Level                                     Worm’s-Eye Level                         View Angles                                     One-Point Perspective                                     Two-Point Perspective                                     Multiple Vanishing Points                                  IV  BUILD A SKETCH IN LAYERS                                     Shape of the Face                                     Shape of the Space                                     Shape of the Box             V  MORE PERSPECTIVE                         Circles and Ellipses                         Arches                         Domes                         Reflections GALLERIES                         Wide-Angle in Perspective                         Texture in Perspective                         Painting in Perspective                         Learning in Perspective Contributing Artists About the Author Acknowledgments