. The W. Martin Johnson school of art. Elementary instruction in color, perspective, lights and shadows, pen drawing and composition. arts which need a fewextra touches to enhance the interest, but detail shouldbe added sparingly. Keep the work as a whole con-stantly in mind. The size of a drawing for reproduction can be leftto the judgment of the artist. Some make their draw-ings four or five times larger than the illustration is tobe, but twice the size is ample. It is well to settle forall time what reduction is best suited to ones by the photo-engraving process a draw-i
. The W. Martin Johnson school of art. Elementary instruction in color, perspective, lights and shadows, pen drawing and composition. arts which need a fewextra touches to enhance the interest, but detail shouldbe added sparingly. Keep the work as a whole con-stantly in mind. The size of a drawing for reproduction can be leftto the judgment of the artist. Some make their draw-ings four or five times larger than the illustration is tobe, but twice the size is ample. It is well to settle forall time what reduction is best suited to ones by the photo-engraving process a draw-ing is much refined, and a reducing lens, to be had ofany dealer in optical goods, will show what this refine-ment will be when the drawing is brought down to theplate size. The proportions of a drawing to fit a given space arefixed by a very simple method of measurement. Saya picture must be reduced to exactly three by fiveinches. Measure off this area and rule up the formwith a T square, projecting a Hne through the twocorners of this space and beyond it, and drawing up-right and horizontal lines perfectly square to meet on 78. O
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