The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction . o its study. It is in this study that his efforts should be prescribed to asystematic course of education, that will ultimately lead to the possession of that happy facultywhich will overcome all difficulties, and enable him to draw, with equal ease and facility, anyobject in nature, or of the minds creation. 76. The Foot is by no means so facile in its movements as the hand, nor capable of suchgreat va
The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction . o its study. It is in this study that his efforts should be prescribed to asystematic course of education, that will ultimately lead to the possession of that happy facultywhich will overcome all difficulties, and enable him to draw, with equal ease and facility, anyobject in nature, or of the minds creation. 76. The Foot is by no means so facile in its movements as the hand, nor capable of suchgreat variety of attitude and action $ hence it is easier to draw, and, therefore, more properly,should be placed first before the pupil. He will now have occasion for the exercise and prac-tical application of the principles laid down in the primary instructions he has received 5 andshould he find the difficulties he encounters try him beyond his strength, he can not do better,before he proceeds farther, than to make a careful revision of the ground he may have passedover too hurriedly, or without bestowing sufficient study and practice upon these primary ex-ercises. 62 RUDIMENTS OF DRAWING. M. 77. However admirable and perfect may be the antique statues in their proportions and details,and however desirable it may be to place before the pupil the choicest models for the exerciseof his skill, it is enough for his present purposes to look to the familiar objects which are withinhis reach. A boys foot can be found without seeking it in an academy 5 and, if it has not beenalready distorted by the shoemaker, affords a model well worth his study and best effort. First,let him try the example here placed before him, and then, doubtless, he may find a youngfriend not unwilling to submit to serve as his model ; and, if he has done all that has beenrequired of him, and carefully exercises himself in these few examples, he will possess thecapacity of drawing a foot, and presently a hand, from n
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