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# Clear, precise perspective rules Concise & slim handbook format Detailed pen & ink visuals Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction)

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## Summary

> 🎨 Unlock the art of perspective—because your drawings deserve to stand out!

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## Key Features

- • **Top-Ranked & Trusted:** Highly rated (#21 in Arts & Photography Study & Teaching) with 4.6 stars from over 1,200 reviews—join thousands of satisfied artists.
- • **Compact Yet Comprehensive:** Slim handbook packed with essential perspective techniques—perfect for busy creatives on the go.
- • **Visual Learning at Its Best:** Black & white pen & ink illustrations that bring perspective principles to life with clarity.
- • **Master Perspective with Precision:** Joseph D'Amelio’s genius clarity makes complex perspective concepts effortlessly understandable.
- • **Essential for Every Art Collection:** A must-have foundational resource that complements any artist’s library, ensuring you never miss a perspective beat.

## Overview

The Perspective Drawing Handbook by Joseph D'Amelio is a highly rated, slim, and clear guide to mastering perspective drawing. Featuring precise explanations and detailed pen & ink visuals, this handbook is a top choice for artists seeking a straightforward, effective resource. With over 1,200 positive reviews and a strong ranking in Arts & Photography, it’s an essential addition to any creative professional’s toolkit.

## Description

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Review: Good - Great tool to have in hand, lots of useful information and a quick, but productive, read
Review: Excellent!... It's my #1 choice in my Top 3 perspective books... - This is currently my favorite perspective book! I love this book because it's clear, concise, slim & to the point. It's very enlightening! In my opinion, Joseph D' Amelio was a genius in his understanding of perspective & his ability to communicate this to others. The text may be a little academic by today's standards, but it's still easily worth getting. He uses the words "parallel" and "perpendicular" a lot, because he's being precise in his communication. Because this book is so slim, clear & reasonably priced, I highly recommend this to anyone & *everyone* interested in learning about perspective-based drawing. Even if it doesn't become everyone's favorite overall, it's certainly worth having in any collection, as perspective is such an important topic that it's really best to buy a number of books. And if we're going to buy a number of books, it might be helpful to know which are the *best* while at the same time being reasonably priced. This is at the top of my list! Three-point perspective is covered here, although he actually avoids this term and instead calls this "looking up & down". It's simplistic in its approach, but that's what great teachers are about: taking difficult concepts & making them easy to understand. And as mentioned, while the writing may at times be a little stiff, this book relies mostly on visuals, which are entirely in black & white and mostly in pen & ink. Perspective Drawing Handbook: my highest recommendation! P.S. My current Top 3 perspective books include: Perspective Drawing Handbook; Perspective Made Easy ; and then Perspective! For Comic Book Artists . P.P.S. An interesting observation: there is at least one visual error in this book. On page 55, there are common objects depicted in 3-point perspective, as often seen when we're looking down. The bed on this page has vertical lines converging in the wrong direction(!). In every other picture on this page, the vertical lines are, accurately, converging downwards. With the bed, we get the opposite(!). How this found its way into print is beyond me, but I still think this book is great.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #18,832 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #17 in Arts & Photography Study & Teaching #88 in Drawing (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.6 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,291) |
| Dimensions  | 8.2 x 0.3 x 10.7 inches |
| Edition  | unknown |
| ISBN-10  | 0486432084 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-0486432083 |
| Item Weight  | 10.4 ounces |
| Language  | English |
| Part of series  | Dover Art Instruction |
| Print length  | 96 pages |
| Publication date  | May 17, 2004 |
| Publisher  | Dover Publications |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good
*by R***N on December 19, 2025*

Great tool to have in hand, lots of useful information and a quick, but productive, read

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Excellent!... It's my #1 choice in my Top 3 perspective books...
*by E***M on November 7, 2006*

This is currently my favorite perspective book! I love this book because it's clear, concise, slim & to the point. It's very enlightening! In my opinion, Joseph D' Amelio was a genius in his understanding of perspective & his ability to communicate this to others. The text may be a little academic by today's standards, but it's still easily worth getting. He uses the words "parallel" and "perpendicular" a lot, because he's being precise in his communication. Because this book is so slim, clear & reasonably priced, I highly recommend this to anyone & *everyone* interested in learning about perspective-based drawing. Even if it doesn't become everyone's favorite overall, it's certainly worth having in any collection, as perspective is such an important topic that it's really best to buy a number of books. And if we're going to buy a number of books, it might be helpful to know which are the *best* while at the same time being reasonably priced. This is at the top of my list! Three-point perspective is covered here, although he actually avoids this term and instead calls this "looking up & down". It's simplistic in its approach, but that's what great teachers are about: taking difficult concepts & making them easy to understand. And as mentioned, while the writing may at times be a little stiff, this book relies mostly on visuals, which are entirely in black & white and mostly in pen & ink. Perspective Drawing Handbook: my highest recommendation! P.S. My current Top 3 perspective books include: Perspective Drawing Handbook; Perspective Made Easy ; and then Perspective! For Comic Book Artists . P.P.S. An interesting observation: there is at least one visual error in this book. On page 55, there are common objects depicted in 3-point perspective, as often seen when we're looking down. The bed on this page has vertical lines converging in the wrong direction(!). In every other picture on this page, the vertical lines are, accurately, converging downwards. With the bed, we get the opposite(!). How this found its way into print is beyond me, but I still think this book is great.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good book, I recommend it.
*by M***D on May 27, 2025*

Excellent book on understanding perspectives when drawing. I've had some prior training so I had foundational knowledge but this helped me take my perspective drawing understanding and skill further. Tip: Take the book to Staples for them to remove the binding and put in a spiral binding. Makes it much easier to work from.

## Frequently Bought Together

- Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction)
- Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction)

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