. Drawing for beginners . lf with a gooddeal of amusement and useful instructionby searching for perspective, not only inyour own paintings and drawings, but inthe work of other people. Study pictures in books and magazines,and photographs in the daily papers,and you will find endless examples ofperspective. By tracing parallel lines and finding vanishing points ofplanes and surfaces, much that bewildered you in the pastwill become clear and reasonable. Planes, horizontal planes and perpendicular planes, areterms constantly used with regard to perspective. A horizontal plane is a plane paralle
. Drawing for beginners . lf with a gooddeal of amusement and useful instructionby searching for perspective, not only inyour own paintings and drawings, but inthe work of other people. Study pictures in books and magazines,and photographs in the daily papers,and you will find endless examples ofperspective. By tracing parallel lines and finding vanishing points ofplanes and surfaces, much that bewildered you in the pastwill become clear and reasonable. Planes, horizontal planes and perpendicular planes, areterms constantly used with regard to perspective. A horizontal plane is a plane parallel with the earth ; a per-pendicular plane is one perpendicular to the earth. The top ofa table and the ceiling of a room are horizontal planes ; thewalls of the room are perpendicular planes. It might, very reasonably, be concluded that in using thewords tracing parallel lines I intended to convey thatlines should be drawn across the pictures. But that certainlywas not my intention. There is no necessity to commit the 135. Fig. 68. Egyptian FiGUKE Drawing for Beginners crime of scribbling with pencil or ink on the printed thread of white or black silk or cotton laid upon the sur-face will serve your purpose. To explain more clearly. Lay a thread of cotton on oneof the perspective diagrams, hold one end on the vanishingpoint, and from that angle swivel the thread on to thevarious parallel lines. Remove the thread to each vanishingpoint. Test any of the perspective examples in this way by merelylaying the thread on the paper, holding the right thumb onthe thread at the vanishing point. An old reel with a smallquantity of cotton is, perhaps, easiest to handle, then thethread does not slip out of the left hand. Use black thread if the drawing is lightly sketched onwhite paper, and white thread if the picture is in a darktone. Let me presume that you wish to analyse the perspectiveof the accompanying photograph of a picture-gallery, whichis a very simple example. Lay the thr
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