. Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students. ximate ellipse, or cir-cle, or draw a straight line with one light, quick stroke of the arm. The pencil should be long, of medium grade, and should be heldby the thumb and first two fingers, with its unsharpened end directedtoward the palm of the hand. It should be held in this way for allthe first work upon any drawing, but in finishing or accenting adrawing whose lines have been thus sketched, more pressure will berequired, and the pencil may be held nearer the point. If the drawing is made upon a sheet of paper, it should besecured t
. Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students. ximate ellipse, or cir-cle, or draw a straight line with one light, quick stroke of the arm. The pencil should be long, of medium grade, and should be heldby the thumb and first two fingers, with its unsharpened end directedtoward the palm of the hand. It should be held in this way for allthe first work upon any drawing, but in finishing or accenting adrawing whose lines have been thus sketched, more pressure will berequired, and the pencil may be held nearer the point. If the drawing is made upon a sheet of paper, it should besecured to the board by tacks, so that its edges are parallel to thoseof the board ; if the edges are not quite straight, a horizontal linemay be drawn near the lower edge, so that directions may be referredto this line. FREE-HAND DRAWING. If the drawing is made in a book, the directions, vertical andhorizontal, will be obtained by comparison with the edges of thebook. DRAWING FROM SINGLE will suppose that the subject of our lesson is the box, Fig. ^^ Blockhig-in Lines. Fig. 2. :*^. ?i^^^~ First, nearlyclose the eyes andtry to see the boxnot as a solid, butas a pupils will un-derstand what isdesired if an objectis held in front ofa window, for theywill then see theobject as a mass ofdark, whose out-lines are very dis-tinct, while the lines within the contour are almost, if not quite,invisible. Practice will enable one to look at all objects so as tothink simply of the directions of their outer lines. To realize the directions which the important lines appear tohave, the pencil point may be moved back and forth in the air so Fig. 3. OUTLINE DRAWING. 5 that it ippears to cover the edges. In other words, the Hnes may bedrawn in the air. Wliile doing this care should be taken to keepthe pencil point where it would be if it were held upon a pane ofglass placed in front of the pupil, and at right angles to the directionin which the object is seen, and not to move
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