. Drawing for beginners . size of your own. The art of catching a likeness, then, brings us to thispoint. We must first of all have good ground-work. Wemust practise drawing faces and features of various peoplein various positions. We must draw with knowledge, not guessing at things,sketching at random and trusting to luck. We must be prepared to catch the fleeting look; we musthold ourselves, as it were, on the very tiptoe of expectancyfor the smile, the glance, the pout, the thoughtful or mirthfulexpression. A line well expressed will send our hopes soaring high, anda line faulty and wrong w
. Drawing for beginners . size of your own. The art of catching a likeness, then, brings us to thispoint. We must first of all have good ground-work. Wemust practise drawing faces and features of various peoplein various positions. We must draw with knowledge, not guessing at things,sketching at random and trusting to luck. We must be prepared to catch the fleeting look; we musthold ourselves, as it were, on the very tiptoe of expectancyfor the smile, the glance, the pout, the thoughtful or mirthfulexpression. A line well expressed will send our hopes soaring high, anda line faulty and wrong will dash all those hopes to theground. Never be daunted by mistakes, but take yourcourage in both hands and CHAPTER XIV Action and Composition WHEN I was very young I cherished intense admira-tion for a certain httle friend who was fond ofdrawing birds—not single studies of birds, butbirds in flight. Flicks flick, flick—so many swift touches ofthe pencil and the birds sprang into sight, crowds of little. Fig. 87. Birds in Flight birds with curved wings against solid chunks of rollingclouds. Have you not drawn them yourself ? Have younot sometimes watched the birds crossing the sky and triedto follow their flight with a pencil ? Fishes are not so easily studied, but sometimes they canbe observed in tanks, or in the wonderful Nature pictures of 171 Drawing for Beginners the movies, and fishes swimming in water bear resemblanceto birds flying in the air. We are inclined to neglect our opportunities of studying
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