Urban Sketching Handbook Understanding Perspective

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 Bluprint.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 (Quarry Books, 2016) and co-author of The Urban Sketching Art Pack (Quarry Books, 2017).

• About this SeriesIntroductionKEYSI   BASICSTools   Terms  Proportions and Measuring                  II   BASIC SPATIAL PRINCIPLESDiminishing      ConvergingForeshorteningIII  TYPES OF PERSPECTIVESView Eye Levels“Eye Level”Aerial or Bird’s-Eye LevelWorm’s-Eye LevelView AnglesOne-Point PerspectiveTwo-Point PerspectiveMultiple Vanishing Points                     IV  BUILD A SKETCH IN LAYERSShape of the FaceShape of the SpaceShape of the BoxV  MORE PERSPECTIVECircles and EllipsesArchesDomesReflectionsGALLERIESWide-Angle in PerspectiveTexture in PerspectivePainting in PerspectiveLearning in PerspectiveContributing ArtistsAbout the AuthorAcknowledgments

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