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In Fine Detail: Perspective : For Artists, Architects, and Creatives - Simone Ridyard

In Fine Detail: Perspective

For Artists, Architects, and Creatives

By: Simone Ridyard

Hardcover | 18 August 2026

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An intricate, detailed and definitive book that will guide you through the history, principles and practice of perspective. . Provides clear insight and understanding of the creative keystone that achieves great realism and scale for artists . Complete with diagrams, exercises and detailed worked-through examples with an emphasis on learning and developing artistic skills . In-depth chapters cover the basic rules of drawing, different types of perspective, experimental approaches and more advanced techniques . Packed with stunning artwork from around the world to showcase a broad range of line, tone, colour and technique Acclaimed architectural illustrator, Simone Ridyard reveals the history of perspective from the Renaissance to the present day, with comprehensive studies to demonstrate the differences between each of the six principles and how you can incorporate them in to your work. AUTHOR: Simone Ridyard is an architect and senior lecturer in Interior Design at Manchester Metropolitan University. She has an international profile as an architectural illustrator through her work with the globally recognised Urban Sketchers community. Simone set up Urban Sketchers Manchester in 2012 and her own research centres on architectural reportage and in-situ drawing. Her workshops specialise in understanding perspective drawing. Simone wrote Archisketcher: Drawing Buildings, Cities and Landscapes (North Light Books 2015). She has contributed to many publications on Urban Sketching and has co-edited two Manchester Sketchbooks, published by Mancunian Books. Simone has collaborated with Winsor & Newton, Derwent and The Big Draw on publicised art campaigns and her work has been featured in the Observer News Review and on the Guardian website.

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