Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . 815 6 RENDERING make the shadows, giving definiteness to the shadow and contrastto the white lijiht below it. Method. The combination of individual lines produces whatwe may term a method. The individual line may be igood butthe conibininir may be unfortunate. In makinjr a wash drawingno thouglit is necessary concerning the direction of the wash, butin using lines at once the query arises as to what direction they. EXCELLENT METHOD shall take. A method is something one must grow into from asmall, simple beginning.


Cyclopedia of architecture, carpentry, and building : a general reference work . 815 6 RENDERING make the shadows, giving definiteness to the shadow and contrastto the white lijiht below it. Method. The combination of individual lines produces whatwe may term a method. The individual line may be igood butthe conibininir may be unfortunate. In makinjr a wash drawingno thouglit is necessary concerning the direction of the wash, butin using lines at once the query arises as to what direction they. EXCELLENT METHOD shall take. A method is something one must grow into from asmall, simple beginning. The accompan3ing illustration, thework of another Massachusetts Institute of Technology student, isan example of rare skill in method quickly acquired. There is anutter absence of anvthinfr ritjid or mechanical in the whole. Ob- J DO serve how softly the edges of the drawing merge into the white otthe paper. The vigor of the drawing is gathered in the dormeritself. 316 RENDEEING Vertical Lines. The simplest method is ob-tained by the use of thevertical line. Some draw-ings can be made entirelyby this means. See , every line of which isvertical. This illustratesthe value of a good indi-vidual line. It will be Aobserved that although ver-tical, these lines are notseverely straight and stiff,they tremble a little, orhave a slight suggestionof a curve. In the shad-


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