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Framed Perspective Vol. 1: Technical Perspective and Visual Storytelling Paperback – November 30, 2016

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A practical guide on building perspective from a seasoned graphic artist and author. 

Perspective is a discipline often set aside when it comes to general art study, though it is essential to master in order to produce any piece of art that is and feels realistic. 

Framed Perspective Vol. 1 equips artists with the technical knowledge needed to produce successful visual storytelling-related drawings; from understanding the basics of the space around us and how we perceive it, all the way to more sophisticated endeavors, like creating entire locations that will become the believable set ups our characters and stories will happen within. 

As intimidating as perspective may seem, best-selling author and artist Marcos Mateu-Mestre delivers each lesson in an accessible and informative way that takes the mystery out of achieving successful scenes. The book includes extensive step-by-step practical explanations of how to build objects and environments of all sorts, taking that first sketch to a fully rendered artwork with many of his finished illustrations as examples. 

Sure to be the most popular book in your art library, it will train you to see the world in a way that allows you to enjoy every curve and slope you see in it and, more importantly, translate that vision into art with accuracy and a great sense and understanding of depth and proportion. 

Your perspective will never be the same! 

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Marcos Mateu-Mestre (born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain) is a lead animation designer and graphic novel artist with more than three decades of experience in feature animation. His film credits include Balto, The Prince of Egypt, Asterix and The Vikings, Surf’s Up, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. His work in film, primarily for DreamWorks Animation, Netflix Animation, and Sony Pictures Animation, has focused on environment design as well as the cinematic aspects of frame composition, lighting, and visual continuity. Beyond his film work, Mateu-Mestre has shared his experience in international best sellers Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers, Framed Perspective Vol.1, Framed Perspective Vol. 2, Framed Drawing Techniques, and Framed Ink Vol. 2—all of which have been translated into numerous foreign languages expanding their reach even farther. He has also taught drawing, illustration, and visual storytelling techniques for more than a decade. Mateu-Mestre currently lives in Los Angeles and works at Netflix, credited as production designer on the feature animated movie Ultraman: Rising

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Design Studio Press (November 30, 2016)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 228 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1624650309
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1624650307
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 1 year and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.48 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 1.57 x 10.98 inches
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Marcos Mateu-Mestre (born in Palma de Mallorca, Spain) is a lead animation designer and graphic novel artist with more than three decades of experience in feature animation. His film credits include Balto, The Prince of Egypt, Asterix and The Vikings, Surf’s Up, How to Train Your Dragon 2 and Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. His work in film, primarily for DreamWorks Animation, Netflix Animation, and Sony Pictures Animation, has focused on environment design as well as the cinematic aspects of frame composition, lighting, and visual continuity. He has also been the Production Designer of Netflix's epic feature animated movie Ultraman: Rising. Beyond his film work, Mateu-Mestre has shared his experience in the international best sellers Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers, Framed Perspective Vol.1, Framed Perspective Vol. 2, Framed Drawing Techniques, and Framed Ink Vol.2—all of which have been translated into numerous languages expanding their reach even farther. He has also taught drawing, illustration, and visual storytelling techniques for more than a decade. Mateu-Mestre currently lives in Los Angeles.

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Customers find the book helpful for learning visual composition and perspective drawing. They appreciate the clear explanations and practical examples. The book is described as a great resource for learning perspective drawing, making it fun and easier than college art books.

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Customers find the book's illustrations helpful. It explains visual composition and perspective drawing with clear examples and step-by-step instructions. Readers find it easy to understand and recommend it as an advanced class textbook.

"...It starts with the basics, draw a cube in two point perspective, blah blah, the same as every drawing book that talks about perspective, but then it..." Read more

"...This book is none of that! It starts out by quickly guiding you through the basics and on through 1, 2, and 3 point perspective, sharing glimpses of..." Read more

"...shows what is missing from my nervous system, methods, ways to know and divide space and how to orient scenes so that they look professional...." Read more

"...He accomplishes this through a bevy of practical, incisive examples that make you wonder why you were ever intimidated by perspective in the first..." Read more

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Customers find this book helpful for learning perspective. It explains different perspectives and how to achieve them in drawing. They say it makes learning perspective fun and easier than college art books. The book starts at the beginning of understanding perspective and takes you through detailed guidelines to create anything in correct perspective. Readers appreciate the science of perspective and its practical use in art.

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Best resource on perspective.
Framed Perspective is one of those canonical books where you eventually stop flagging every insightful page because you'll just end up flagging the entire book (see photo).The author has an unparalleled ability to communicate what previously felt like impenetrable concepts with relative ease. He accomplishes this through a bevy of practical, incisive examples that make you wonder why you were ever intimidated by perspective in the first place.And the book is structured brilliantly. Each chapter builds seamlessly on the previous one to the point where whatever question you have in your head is invariably asked and then answered (thoroughly!) as soon as you turn the page.I already had sky-high expectations (Framed Ink changed the way I think about composition), but those were easily exceeded. Together, Framed Perspective volumes 1 and 2 are far and away the best resource on perspective I've ever found, and I'm extremely grateful to the author for sharing his valuable knowledge and insight.An amazing resource!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2024
    This is the most amazing book on perspective I've ever seen.

    It starts with the basics, draw a cube in two point perspective, blah blah, the same as every drawing book that talks about perspective, but then it goes into some interesting variations and twists. Some are somewhat standard, such a bird's eye view, or how a would room look if you were looking at it from an overhead camera. Some less so. Imagine you want to draw a room where the wall on one side is in perspective and there is a picture hanging on the wall. Easy, right? Not imagine that picture is crooked. How do you keep perspective without the lines being perpendicular to the floor? What about if you're looking at a room reflected in a distorted mirror. That kind of thing is covered here.

    It ends with some very complex variations, but it starts with the absolute basics and progresses gradually in a well-structured manner where each chapter builds upon the last.

    That said, this is not a book I think I can read once and be done with it. I feel like I want to take what I've learned, practice, then go back and review, and I think I'll end up doing that a few times before I've gotten all I can out of it. There is a lot of material here.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2017
    One of the best books specifically for comics that I've read on the subject. One of the best things about this book compared to others is that MArcos makes it look easy even when he's teaching more advanced technical aspects of perspective. That's something I haven't seen from other books in quite the same way. Perspective books tend to be headache-inducingly technical and boring, mind-numbingly patronizing in their attempt at simplicity, or they hold your hand through the basics, then de-pants you and kicks you into the deep end. This book is none of that! It starts out by quickly guiding you through the basics and on through 1, 2, and 3 point perspective, sharing glimpses of what's to come along the way, then jumps right into tangible applications. It teaches what you need to know to make comics, and doesn't waste time on other aspects of perspective you can learn elsewhere if you really want to know.

    I also recommend Vol 2. It feels like they were supposed to be one book, but it would have been too thick of a book to lay open and study from (That's just my personal thought, i don't know why they split it up). Back to the content, it's clear, concise, plenty of illustrated examples to go along with well-written text. There's a few step-by-step examples for more complex illustration problems as well. Again, I highly recommend getting both Vol 1 and 2. Start with 1 to develop a solid foundation for these concepts. Once you've mastered everything in Vol 1, then Vol 2 will be easier to grasp, and you'll be more effective at implementing what you learn.

    Perspective is a dense subject though. While this book is in the top of it's class, it doesn't cover everything, it can't. But it's a fantastic introduction to the basics, through to intermediate and advanced techniques as well. It will definitely give you the tools to fill in the rest on your own if you desire to get even deeper into mastering the art of perspective.
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 21, 2023
    This is just a great work all around about spacial geometry, light, and the human mind and the human eye. I am horrible at art but this books shows what is missing from my nervous system, methods, ways to know and divide space and how to orient scenes so that they look professional. Some of this seems to come natural to some people. NOT ME! NOT ME AT ALL!!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017
    Framed Perspective is one of those canonical books where you eventually stop flagging every insightful page because you'll just end up flagging the entire book (see photo).

    The author has an unparalleled ability to communicate what previously felt like impenetrable concepts with relative ease. He accomplishes this through a bevy of practical, incisive examples that make you wonder why you were ever intimidated by perspective in the first place.

    And the book is structured brilliantly. Each chapter builds seamlessly on the previous one to the point where whatever question you have in your head is invariably asked and then answered (thoroughly!) as soon as you turn the page.

    I already had sky-high expectations (Framed Ink changed the way I think about composition), but those were easily exceeded. Together, Framed Perspective volumes 1 and 2 are far and away the best resource on perspective I've ever found, and I'm extremely grateful to the author for sharing his valuable knowledge and insight.

    An amazing resource!
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    5.0 out of 5 stars
    Best resource on perspective.

    Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017
    Framed Perspective is one of those canonical books where you eventually stop flagging every insightful page because you'll just end up flagging the entire book (see photo).

    The author has an unparalleled ability to communicate what previously felt like impenetrable concepts with relative ease. He accomplishes this through a bevy of practical, incisive examples that make you wonder why you were ever intimidated by perspective in the first place.

    And the book is structured brilliantly. Each chapter builds seamlessly on the previous one to the point where whatever question you have in your head is invariably asked and then answered (thoroughly!) as soon as you turn the page.

    I already had sky-high expectations (Framed Ink changed the way I think about composition), but those were easily exceeded. Together, Framed Perspective volumes 1 and 2 are far and away the best resource on perspective I've ever found, and I'm extremely grateful to the author for sharing his valuable knowledge and insight.

    An amazing resource!
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  • Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2024
    Great book about visual composition in general that translates well also into photography and filmmaking. I am big fan of authors visual style!
    One person found this helpful
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  • Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2024
    Best easy to understand perspective yet
  • Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2024
    best basic books
  • Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2024
    I devoured this book in about a day but none the less, it’s one that It’ll keep on dog-earing for a long time to come. I was impressed right away. After 15 pages I started looking at things differently; brain shifted; eyes open. This book doesn’t just teach you how to draw in perspective: It teaches you how to think about the object(s); how to “see” it and understand the spacial reasoning behind the technique before you deploy the technical method. What a gift.
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  • Beheryth
    5.0 out of 5 stars Ótimo livro
    Reviewed in Brazil on January 3, 2025
    Ótimo livro, apesar de estar enferrujado no Inglês, as imagens deixam a didática da tecnica praticamente auto explicativas, estou adorando estudar perspectiva por este livro.
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    Ótimo livro

    Reviewed in Brazil on January 3, 2025
    Ótimo livro, apesar de estar enferrujado no Inglês, as imagens deixam a didática da tecnica praticamente auto explicativas, estou adorando estudar perspectiva por este livro.
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  • Leticia
    5.0 out of 5 stars Es lo que buscaba
    Reviewed in Mexico on December 16, 2023
    Me gusto muchísimo
  • Diana
    5.0 out of 5 stars libro fantastico, spedizione indecente
    Reviewed in Italy on December 21, 2024
    libri fantastici, molto consigliati. Spedizione pessima, arrivati con copertina piegata e graffiata, angoli sbucciati. 5 stelle solo per la validità del libro.
  • Mac
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome
    Reviewed in Canada on February 29, 2024
    Great book. This series is probably the best drawing course you can get for the money very detailed.
  • Daniel
    5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome book but bad delivery packing!
    Reviewed in Germany on May 7, 2024
    The book came today but the corners and base was little damage from the bad service of amazon packing center! It was really poor packaged! But the book is awesome highly recommend!