CRC Press Light and Surface: The Visual Artist’s Handbook

Visible Light: The Artist's Complete Manual is a comprehensive guide to the visual manifestations of light, essential for every artist regardless of the medium and yet so scarcely exposed in the existing textbooks. Put shortly, in its two dedicated parts the book thoroughly answers the big questions of “Why things look the way they look?” and “How to make them look better?”. Key Features This is the most complete and least contradictory text on light (the very essence of every visual art) written for the artists at the moment. It applies across all media and techniques, from classical drawing to 3D graphics and photography. Visible Light” is the only book aimed at artists that properly covers the notion of light spectrum and the related color formation