The Artist's Repository, Or, Encyclopedia of the Fine Arts (Band 1): The Human Figure (London, 1808)

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general rules for drawing a head.

First trace a central perpendicular line through
the forehead, nose, mouth and chin ; then cross
lines for the eyes, nose, mouth, &c. (This rule is
universal, and applicable in every aspect of the head;
but'the lines, &c. vary by becoming circular, as al-
ready explained.) Having lightly traced these lines,
proceed to mark the features, their extent, and pro-
jection ; these being touched in their proper places,
insert the other parts, hair, &c. (paying great regard
to the oval of the face, and to the turn of the neck) :
finish the whole, by giving to each part that tone of
light, or of shadow, and of colour, which it requires,

Thus have we attended somewhat to the human
figure \ more particularly, to the parts which com-
pose the head ; whose divisions we have noticed 3 the
appearances of the features in various aspects; their
proportions and uses : but let us not conclude that
our progress is complete ; for were a head composed
never so exactly according to the measures we have
mentioned, it would yet be very distant from such
animation and vigour as might seem to impart life to
it; that can only be attained by the addition of a
certain natural likeness, or character, whose prin-
ciples will be the subject of our next discourse.

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