. Harper's young people . that the near-est hip and the nose are on a line. It will also help us toget the proportions above and below the line. Then bydrawing a slanting line from D to E, we find that the hind-leg, the nose, and fore-paw are all on that line; so we cannot go far astray in our proportions. One of the chief difficulties in following this method ofdrawing from nature is to hold our measuring stick ex-actly vei-tical or horizontal. This difficulty can be over-come by providing yourself with a T-square (Fig. 8), andattaching to it at the point A a string with a weight at-tached so
. Harper's young people . that the near-est hip and the nose are on a line. It will also help us toget the proportions above and below the line. Then bydrawing a slanting line from D to E, we find that the hind-leg, the nose, and fore-paw are all on that line; so we cannot go far astray in our proportions. One of the chief difficulties in following this method ofdrawing from nature is to hold our measuring stick ex-actly vei-tical or horizontal. This difficulty can be over-come by providing yourself with a T-square (Fig. 8), andattaching to it at the point A a string with a weight at-tached so that it will hang plumb. By using this we canbe sure whether we bold it straight or not, for in case wetip it too much on one side or the other the string willswerve from the middle of the upright stick. Of course,whenever we hold the T-square perfectly straight, thestring will fall straight down the middle of the upright,and the top of the T will then give us a true horizontal line. 524 HARPERS YOUNG PEOPLE. VOLUME FIG. 3. A little thought and practice will lead you to thor-oughly understand this method, and when you really un-derstand it you will have an unerring guide to assist course as the eye and hand becometrained with practice and observation,the work will become easier, and youwill have less need of the T-square. In beginning the practice of drawingfrom nature we had better confine ourfirst efforts to things that will standstill, for without a practiced hand it willbe almost impossible to sketch a rest-less subject; but if we attempt to do so,we should follow the methods beforetaught as nearly as possible. Now suppose we start off 011 a sketch-ing tour. We have hardly entered thebarn-yard before something strikes ourfancy—a goose. We would dearly liketo take his picture, but he will not keepstill an instant, now presenting a sideview, now a front view, or turning hisback toward us, and if we really musthave his picture, we have nothing forit but to catch
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