. Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students. picture plane is placed at right angles to ahorizontal line from the eye to the centre of the subject, both wallswill be at angles to the picture plane and their lines will vanishas in Fig. 45. The station-point for Fig. 45 is about 3^from the centre of the picture, and this figure illustrates thefollowing rule : Rule 36. When two walls of a room are to be represented aboutequally, the drawing should have two vanishing points for the hori-zontal lines of the walls and lines parallel to the walls. io6 FREE-HAND DRAWING. Fig 46 represents
. Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students. picture plane is placed at right angles to ahorizontal line from the eye to the centre of the subject, both wallswill be at angles to the picture plane and their lines will vanishas in Fig. 45. The station-point for Fig. 45 is about 3^from the centre of the picture, and this figure illustrates thefollowing rule : Rule 36. When two walls of a room are to be represented aboutequally, the drawing should have two vanishing points for the hori-zontal lines of the walls and lines parallel to the walls. io6 FREE-HAND DRAWING. Fig 46 represents three Avails of a room, the picture plane beingat right angles to a line from the eye to the centre of the the eye is nearer the wall at the left than that at the right, thehorizontal lines of the end of the room are at an angle to the pictureplane, and vanish to the right. The lines of the other walls vanishat point CFin AB, and the drawing is very unsatisfactory, for all atthe left of AjB is distorted. If Fig. 46 is viewed from a station-. FiG. 44. An Unsatistactor} Drawing. point opposite CFand about 3 from the paper it will not appeardistorted. Fig. 47 is a perspective drawing on a plane parallel to the endof the room. It is the best drawing that can be made, and illus-trates Rule 32 ; its station-point is about 3 from the centre of thepicture. In drawing interiors the artist will generally represent the actualvisual proportions of his subject as far as this can be done byrepresenting straight lines by straight lines, but he will always givethe actual appearance of separate objects and details of the subject. SCIENTIFIC PERSPECTIVE AND MODEL DRAWING. 107 unless it is necessary to show the positions of these objects withreference to the principal lines of the room. When furniture orother details have their lines parallel to those of the walls, theartist is obliged to make practically the exact parallel perspectivedrawing illustrated by Figs. 34, 37, 43, and 47. T
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