[iByrn]

Scenario:
You have a row of telephone poles, moving away from you towards a vanishing point. You want to make them spaced equal distances apart as they move away from you. How do you measure the distance between them on paper to make them appear as if they are equally spaced?
I've seen many perspective tutorials and I've never seen this addressed.

[AndyT]

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Loomis Books
Hope that helps!!!???

[roundeye]

i wondered the same thing for a while. got the answer from the scott tut. find that. its so simple

[iByrn]

That's just what I needed, thanks AndyT.

I looked at some of Scott's tuorials and didn't recall seeing anything about this, I must not've looked at all of them.

[Ian Jones]

Those Loomis perspective tuts are good. Very informative, practical and for once an artist who understood how to teach what students are looking for. Pity that a few pages are not working for the successful drawing book, I was d-loading it once and found that pages were missing. I wish it was in PDF.

Anyone found 'Successful Drawing' as a complete PDF?

[IO_Error]

Hello Pixel-Pushers.

I have the following books in PDF format:
Creative Illustration
Successful Drawing
Drawing the Head and Hands
Figure Drawing for all its worth
Fun with a Pencil.

I'm currently looking for someone with enough webspace to host all 5 books. Creative Illustration is the largest with 300 pages and a color section, at around 100MB. I'm currently on vacation... if you have a nice ftp site or would just like me to upload 1 book or whatever else, please contact me at [email protected], and I'll get back to you when I return to work on August 4th.

Sincerely,

Ryan Malm

[Vhy]

bump, because I hope somebody offers to host those books.

[Blind]

Are there any legal implications to hosting those books? I may be able to help. But I'm not putting them up if some publishing house is just going to send me a C&D order. I know most/all have been out of print, but what are the rights still involved?

[t_mcguire]

I am hosting some of the Loomis books and researched some copyright stuff before I put them up just to ease my mind. Here is what I discovered.

Copyright lasts for the length of the author�s life plus seventy years. If you�re writing your book right now under your own name, the copyright will last seventy years after your death. Like any other asset, your copyright can be left to your heirs, and they will have all the rights to license rights or continue to gather income from licensed rights as the original copyholder.

Copyright infringement is a federal crime. The only way to make sure you�re not infringing on other people�s copyright is to get permission to use their work. If your copyright is being infringed for profit, you may bring a civil lawsuit against the infringer, and the government may pursue criminal charges.

Source for this info at: 21stCentury Press
Lot's of Copyright info at: United States Copyright Office (The Library of Congress)

So..that being said..it would seem to me that you are safe as long as you are not selling any reproductions. Andrew Loomis was born in 1892 and died in 1959 which makes the copyright availiable for whatever in 2029.

[Blind]

Interesting, Tom...

Of course, I would only put them up as just another mirror where artists can freely download them for learning purposes - I have no interest in making money off someone else's work. But, if Loomis' Copyright is still good for another 27 years, it stands to reason that someone out there may not like them being made freely available, despite not being published any longer. I wonder... but, if these can already be had online, I don't feel a need to be redundant.

Does anyone have links to them all? I know I've got one at home, but the rest would be nice.

[ August 07, 2002: Message edited by: Blind ]