When I was beginning to learn how to draw and paint I went to the
University bookstore and browsed their textbooks. I ended up buying a
history book from the art section and a PERSPECTIVE text from the
architecture department. There were NO perspective texts (at least
during my visit) in the art section. Architecture departments are an
overlooked source of traditional instruction. It would be as rare to
find a second year architecture student who could not draw a complex
structure in correct perspective as to find a "Fine Arts Major" who
could.
