{"id":378,"date":"2007-06-14T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/yfp\/an-old-perspective\/"},"modified":"2011-08-14T13:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T20:01:14","slug":"an-old-perspective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/an-old-perspective.html","title":{"rendered":"An Old Perspective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been drawing for years and have a pretty good understanding of perspective. I had a hard time finding the answer questions like: when is it really a cube instead of having one side longer than the other. Sure, I could eyeball it fairly well and that&#8217;s usually good enough. But sometimes I really wanted it to look <em>right<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last\"> The answer finally came in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/\">Project Gutenberg<\/a> eBook named &#8220;The Theory and Practice of Perspective&#8221;, by George Adolphus Storey, which was originally written in 1910. It&#8217;s free to download and seems to have the answer to all perspective questions. Get it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20165\/20165-h\/20165-h.htm\">www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20165\/20165-h\/20165-h.htm<\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"relTagDiv\">\n<div class=\"xfolkentry\"><a class=\"taggedlink\" href=\"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/2007\/06#3178064548604236152\">An Old Perspective<\/a><\/p>\n<p>technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/art\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"art\">art<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technorati.com\/tags\/book\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"book\">book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>IceRocket tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icerocket.com\/tag\/art\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"art\">art<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icerocket.com\/tag\/book\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"book\">book<\/a><\/p>\n<p>del.icio.us tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/art\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"art\">art<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/tag\/book\" rel=\"tag\" title=\"book\">book<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been drawing for years and have a pretty good understanding of perspective. I had a hard time finding the answer questions like: when is it really a cube instead of having one side longer than the other. Sure, I could eyeball it fairly well and that&#8217;s usually good enough. But sometimes I really wanted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/yourfriendpaul.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}