Wyllie, W. L. (William Lionel), 1851-1931 · London, E. Arnold · leaf 18
rds a point onthe horizon to the left of the picture. From its elevated position your head would cast its shadowexactly under this point. It is usual in books on perspective to mark thebeholders shadow by a point only, and to call itV.P.S.R., i.e. vanishing-point of the suns rays.In the present… … Should you wish to draw figures on a slope, thesame rule may still be used ; but you must nowmake, as it were, a slanting horizon to correspondwith the sloping plane on which your figures areto stand. This is called in perspective the vanish-ing-line of the plane. You will recollect that I am…
Drawing · Perspective
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