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As you analyze the figures on the facing page, notice how the cubes and cylinders always shorłen as they go away from you.

As a matter of fact, it might help you to think of the entire figurę as a bunch of connected building blocks. The artist (you) has the task of stringing them out and arranging them in the proper position—making surę that they’re correctly foreshortened as they tilt away from the viewer’s eye.

On the pages that follow, you’ll see examples of various problems in perspective taken from actual drawings which have appeared in Marvel Comics. Next to each drawing, John has sketched the “building blocks” and perspective lines to illustrate how each of the problems was solved by the artist.

By comparing the finished drawing with the corresponding building-block sketch, you should be able to see how the rules we have given you apply to almost any type of illustration.