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Title: The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons, calculated to afford those who are unacquainted with the art, the means of acquiring a competent knowledge without the aid of a master : being the only work of the kind in which the principles of effect are explained in a clear, methodical, and at the same time familiar style
Year: 1827 (1820s)
Authors: Smith, Thomas, watercolorist Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper, publisher Clowes, William, 1779-1847, printer
Subjects: Drawing Watercolor painting Color
Publisher: London : Printed for Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper, Paternoster-Row
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breadth of the shoulders andhips, which in the woman will be very nearly thesame breadth, the hips being very little narrower thanthe shoulder, whilst in the man the latter are con-siderably broader than the former. In drawing a full face, the diameter across the eyes isequal to five lengths of an eye. The distance between the eyes is equal to one eye. The breadth of the nostrils, one eye. The length of the mouth, two eyes. The above rules the student will find extremely service-able in correcting the first rough outline of a figure; bythese rules he can also determine where the knee, foot,6rc. of any figure ought to be placed after he has sketchedthe head. In drawing from plaster casts it is the custom touse grey paper, on which the figure is finished, withblack and white chalk, making use of soft willow char-coal to sketch in the first outline*. Chalk drawings * Charcoal is used in preference to chalk on account of thefacility with which it is effaced if incorrect: the student must
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