Perspective Without Pain Paperback – March 15, 1992

For a class assignment, I was to do a one point perspective drawing. Without having any experience with perspective drawing, I found it intimidating. However, I came across "Perspective Without Pain" by Phil Metzger. His Step-by-Step approach made more sense to me and as a result I did well on my drawing. The book pointed out otherwise difficult concepts, and made them easier to understand. I would recommend this book to anyone but particularly to a beginner because there are examples and explanations through out the book that are easy to follow.

I am a perspective-impaired artist and I admit to it. This is a good book to fix that issue. It contains quite a bit of actual - very easy - exercises to help you learn perspective. It can even be appropriate for an elementary school child -- somewhere between 8 and above, if they like to read or are very interested in art.

From cover to cover, this guide to "Perspective Without Pain", provides an abundance of lessons with methods that are all useful in becoming fluent in the expression of convincing and accurate depth and perspective. Very understandable concepts, enhanced by numerous illustrations, start you out with the very simplest exercises and carry you through to accomplishing the more complex. A most useful addition to a student's or a teacher's art reference library.

I got this book for my artist wife who had a question about how to properly space posts in perspective.She enjoyed the book and now has the answer to her question as well as other helpful lessons about drawing and perspective.As a retired mechanical engineer I thought I'd just browse through the book. I read it cover to cover and was motivated to start sketching. It is clearly written and spiced with humor.I now look at things more perceptively thanks to Mr. Metzger.

I like this book, however, I bought it at the same time as his "The Art of Perspective", and I really like that book more."The Art of Perspective", has more pictures/examples and step-by-step set-ups. Which is more helpful to me as a beginner. "Perspective Without Pain" has lots of useful information, however, for a newby or a novice I would probably recommend the "The Art of Perspective".

This book has already showed me to things I have been doing wrong .and using construction lines to correct my mistakes in a clear easy way to understand .visually and written.

Easy to read and follow. Only criticism is that the illustrations are illegible in the electronic format ( even with enlargement). So, recommend the printed version

I was very pleased with this purchase. The reading is easy and instructions were not complicated. Lots of examples and hands on lessons. I would highly recommend this book for new artists as well as a refresher for those more experienced.