--- product_id: 7636285 title: "Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction)" price: "€ 26.40" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.be/products/7636285-perspective-drawing-handbook-dover-art-instruction store_origin: BE region: Belgium --- # Clear, precise perspective rules Concise & slim handbook format Detailed pen & ink visuals Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction) **Price:** € 26.40 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Summary > 🎨 Unlock the art of perspective—because your drawings deserve to stand out! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction) - **How much does it cost?** € 26.40 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.be](https://www.desertcart.be/products/7636285-perspective-drawing-handbook-dover-art-instruction) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## 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 This handy guide provides numerous insights and shortcuts to drawing and sketching effectively. Describing mandatory skills for beginning and advanced students, the text covers such subjects as diminution, foreshortening, convergence, shade and shadow, and other visual principles of perspective drawing. Accompanying a concise and thoughtfully written text are more than 150 simply drawn illustrations that depict a sense of space and depth, demonstrate vanishing points and eye level, and explain such concepts as appearance versus reality; perspective distortion; determining heights, depths, and widths; and the use of circles, cylinders, and cones. Artists, architects, designers, and engineers will find this book invaluable in creating works with convincing perspective. Review: Awesome book!! - Concepts are explained to the point with supporting drawings. It could be useful for both beginners and professionals. 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. ## Features - Used Book in Good Condition ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #19,977 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #14 in Arts & Photography Study & Teaching #64 in Drawing (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,312 Reviews | ## Images ![Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81eGMaHzFzL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome book!! *by R***S on April 8, 2026* Concepts are explained to the point with supporting drawings. It could be useful for both beginners and professionals. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 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. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I love this book! It's challenging but good. *by S***E on March 6, 2023* This book is very challenging for me. I'll read a portion and it will make no sense to me. I'll go back a read the same section again the next day and I'll glean a bit more. The third time is usually my "Ah Ha" moment. The concepts are new to me so it makes sense that it takes a while to grasp what is being written. What is so good about the book is that I am able, eventually, to grasp the concepts. My one complaint is that sometimes the descriptions to not line up logically with the illustrations. Knowing that, I pay extra attention to ensure that the description is describing the illustration. I especially like some of the techniques for spacing items in perspective (like lampposts lining a street toward the vanishing point. I would Never have figured that out on my own. Great book. I think I'll buy a copy for my niece. ## Frequently Bought Together - Perspective Drawing Handbook (Dover Art Instruction) - Perspective Made Easy (Dover Art Instruction) --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.be/products/7636285-perspective-drawing-handbook-dover-art-instruction](https://www.desertcart.be/products/7636285-perspective-drawing-handbook-dover-art-instruction) --- *Product available on Desertcart Belgium* *Store origin: BE* *Last updated: 2026-05-24*