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id: 14264
title: The Practice and Science of Drawing
author: Speed, Harold
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  ILLUSTRATING A METHOD OF STUDYING MASS DRAWING WITH THE BRUSH] drawing, his work will lack the expressive significance of form that express form with a brush full of paint to work with. The study, therefore, of pure line drawing is of great importance to the This form of drawing is the natural means of expression when a brush study of tone values and the expression of form by means of planes. student should begin some simple form of mass drawing in paint, simple Illustrating how different directions of lines can help expression of with a brush full of paint as your tool, some form of mass drawing must Drawing (expressing form) is the thing you should be and illustrate his use of this form of movement in the lines and masses Now a picture is a thing of paint upon a flat surface, and a drawing is


id: 30325
title: The Elements of Drawing, in Three Letters to Beginners
author: Ruskin, John
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  colors and paper, showing him the best way of holding pencil and rule, water-color painting, can understand the work of Titian or Leonardo; the letter, draw pen-and-ink lines firmly round the tint, as at _d_, and then draw any simple shapes of leaves, according to the exercise No. II., and fill up those, until you can lay on color quite evenly in any for a great master in water-colors will sometimes draw a firm outline, paper as before, draw two pencil lines all the way down, leaving a space masters in water color can lay on the true forms at once with a dash, light, use the color for the small touches with more and more water, light-colored or white paper behind it, so that all the leaves may be the perfect way of drawing is by shade without lines, and the great if you lay a dark color first, and strike a little blue or white


id: 20165
title: The Theory and Practice of Perspective
author: Storey, G. A. (George Adolphus)
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  for instance, How to draw figures at an angle without vanishing points us to draw figures at any angle without vanishing lines, &c., and is From a given point on the base line of the picture draw a line at right Draw a square in parallel perspective on a given length on the base square (Fig. 47), by drawing two lines _AE_ and _BC_ at right angles to Divide a vanishing line which is at right angles to the picture plane Draw squares of given dimensions at given distances from the base line HOW TO FIND THE DISTANCE OF A GIVEN FIGURE OR POINT FROM THE BASE LINE draw lines from the vanishing point _V_ to base. ON A GIVEN LINE PLACED AT AN ANGLE TO THE BASE DRAW A SQUARE IN ANGULAR transfer these measurements to the base of the perspective square (Fig. 179), and proceed to construct the circles as before, drawing lines from


id: 26716
author: Ruskin, John
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  have to do, essentially; the real ''good work'' is, with respect to men, great multitudes of men any such conception of work for the good of useful or life-giving things, and by what degrees and kinds of labour quantity of the thing wanted, and with the number of persons who work Let us suppose, then, that the man''s way of life and manner of work have on the earth, giving lovely form and colour at once; (compare the use of spiritual power seen in the form of any living thing, and so represented such things go), you think you cannot know your place without a stone at better thing of him in that time than the three years'' work of this you must know the beauty and nature of the thing he was drawing. whether in life or in art, _knowing the way things are going_.

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  The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing


id: 43557
title: A Handbook of Illustration
author: Hinton, A. Horsley (Alfred Horsley)
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  reproduction--Negative and print--Legitimate hand work--Relieving the CHAPTER IX.--MATERIALS FOR SIMPLE LINE DRAWING.--Papers and described--Pencil and chalk drawing for line reproduction. kinds of paper, smooth for pen work, rough for crayon, or medium for illustrator acquainted with the method in which his drawing or photogram [Illustration: HALF-TONE FROM PHOTOGRAM; HIGH LIGHTS STRENGTHENED WITH [Illustration: LINE REPRODUCTION FROM PEN AND INK. [Illustration: LINE REPRODUCTION FROM PEN AND INK. [Illustration: HALF-TONE FROM PHOTOGRAM--THE BLOCK ENGRAVED ON BY HAND. _THE PREPARATION OF ORIGINALS FOR REPRODUCTION BY HALF-TONE PROCESS._ _Half-tone from Indian-ink wash drawing on grey paper._ (_Original 5-5/8 [Illustration: DESIGN--CHINESE WHITE ON ORDINARY BROWN PAPER--HALF-TONE. processes used for producing drawing in line. and, of the many ways of illustrating by line process, it is the best [Illustration: PEN AND INK ON BLACK LINE SCRAPE BOARD. [Illustration: PEN AND INK ON BLACK LINE SCRAPE BOARD WITH WHITE SCRAPED [Illustration: PENCIL AND PEN ON VERTICAL LINE WHITE SCRAPE BOARD.


id: 46915
title: A Treatise on Painting
author: Leonardo, da Vinci
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  No Object appears in its true Colour, unless the Light which Of the Light proper for painting Flesh Colour from Nature. objects, and nothing is seen of the figure but what the light strikes /Objects/ contrasted with a light ground will appear much more detached /The/ colour of the shadows of an object can never be pure if the body The air, between the eye and the object seen, will change the colour The true colour of any object whatever will be seen in those parts /Of/ two objects equally light, one will appear less so if seen upon the lights in colour, because on that side the object receives a /The/ shadows or lights which surround figures, or any other objects, Objects seen between lights and shadows will appear to have greater Those objects which are most different in colour, will appear the most


