Perspective made easy / Ernest R. Norling.

Originally published: New York : Macmillian, 1939.

Foreword -- Step one : The horizon ; The vanishing point ; The eye-level -- Step two : The eye-level and its relationship to perspective drawing -- Step three : Parallel lines as we see them ; Parallel lines to one-point perspective -- Step four : The three sets of parallels ; Locating the point and the eye-level -- Step five : The two vanishing points ; The "height" lines -- Step six : Placing the two vanishing points ; The error of close spacing -- Step seven : Showing how the vanishing points move in relationship to one another -- Step eight : Building perspective with bricks -- Step nine : Placing figures and objects in a drawing -- Step ten : Center of interest ; Changing the view ; Roofs in perspective -- Step eleven : Interiors ; Placing the furniture -- Step twelve : Finding the center ; Dividing spaces into halves ; Practical applications -- Step thirteen : Cylinders in perspective ; Drawing ellipses -- Step fourteen : Practical uses of cylinders in drawing ; Dividing the circle -- Step fifteen : Dividing a surface in perspective ; Drawing a checkerboard -- Step sixteen : Shade and shadow -- Step seventeen : Reflections -- Step eighteen : Unusual perspective ; Up-and-down points ; Examples -- Step nineteen : Perspective downhill ; Perspective uphill ; The false eye-level -- Step twenty : Mechanical perspective.

Perspective is easy; yet, surprisingly few artists know the simple rules that make it so. Now they can remedy that situation with this step-by-step book, the first devoted entirely to clarifying the laws of perspective. Using over 250 simple line drawings, the author leads the reader through every important concept.