Rapid Viz: A New Method for the Rapid Visualitzation of Ideas,   ISBN:9781598632682

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I found this book fairly helpful in understanding and applying perspective. I have taken many art classes that have covered the subject and have read books but none really helped me develop an intuitive understanding of perspective. The exercises in this book have helped me see my mistakes and given me more confidence in my sketching and illustrations.
I really recommend this book for the student who knows the basic rules of perspective but could just never get past the mechanics of it all and apply it to their everyday drawing. Im not sure if it's the best book for a raw beginner.

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This is a great book for web / graphic designers, helps you to see design in another point of view.

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This book was a requirement for one of my design classes and i have to say, this book is really basic!!!!! I would rate it higher if it didnt drop in detail about how to do design after the first chapter. What is also funny, the 1st chapter is the most indepth, longest, and informative chapter, but all the rest are nothing important in a sense. Its like all they do is review the 1st one, lol. If you have any somewhat knowledge about drawing this book would either be a complete waste of your time, or a decent refresher. I would recommend this book if you have a kid that has some knowledge of drawing and just wants to learn more. There are alot of visual aids and little text in this book. I have not scene other items of this writers work, so im not gonna be too harsh, but i was disappointed in the book. Also, using this book for a design class, it was sad, no wonder it was an intro to design course, I just wish they could have used a different book....

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Smaller overall size to save money? Why?
The result is overall poor quality, hard to see images, reduced sized graphics and WHY is a portion of refections lessons removed from this edition but present in the 2nd?!? I now have to use a copy machine to enlarge the pages for my college student use the text/lessons.

But don't forget, the 3rd edition now has an exciting new cover...Big deal!

Wake up publishers, give me BACK quality , perhaps in a 4th edition?

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I suppose the smaller format kept the cost down, but I was disappointed to find that out AFTER I bought them. (That's right, "them". I ordered a dozen for a drawing class I held at my company.)

It still has great content though, and I further suppose that if you never ran into the larger format edition, you may not miss it. Excellent content. Not just another drawing book.