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purpofe draw a ftraight line, if the body be ftraight, from thd
throat, through the middle of the bread: and privities to the feet,
to which line draw all thofe particular points parallel, that the
body may not appear crooked or awry.
5. In the bowings and bendings of the body, let the extube-
rance of the outward part be juft equal to the compreflion of the
inward part, making all things of an equal proportion, that the
oppofite parts may be equal, as arm to arm, leg to leg, &c. fo
every part may be proportional to each other, as the hand not
too big for the arm, nor the arm for the body, nor the body for
the legs, &c. only with this difference, that, as the one part may
appear fully to the eve, or the other may turn away, either in
part or the whole, or be feen Tideways, it may be made fo much
lefs than the other, by fo much as it turns away from the fight.
6. As a juft proportion is to be obferved in bignefs, fo alfo
muft it in length, fo that every oppofite part may not be tod
long one for another, but according to the propofed magnitude ;
and in this cafe, that, if the body be awry, or any ways hid,
thofe parts may fhorten accordingly, to what is out of Tight.
7. The juft diflance of one thing from another, for by that
means you will be more exact in your draught, and be able in a
little time to imitate either pattern or nature more perfectly.
8. If you draw a labouring man, you muft reprefenthim with
ftrong limbs and raifed mufcles, fvvelling and ftanding out; efpe-
cially in bearers of burthens, drawing of weights, leaping, walk-
ing, combating with weapons, or fuch-like violent exercifes.
9. In reprefenting perfons afieep, you muft carefully avoid
giving anv fuch pofture or actions in their lying, as will not, in.
all probability, give them leave to fieep. For the weakneffes and
want of judgment in the artift will appear in reprefenting their
limbs or bodies fupported by their own force, and not by the
help of fome other thing.
Of Drawing a naked body. In Drawing after the life, as
there are great variety of faces, fo no certain rules can be de->
livered for it; yet the following precautions may be of ufe.
1. Draw the head in an oval, one fourth part for the hair*
one fourth part for the forehead and brows, one fourth for the
nofe, and the laft for the mouth and chin.
2. Having drawn the head, meafure out eight times the
length of it, the head making one of the eight parts, and draw
a ftraight line from the top of the head to the fole of the foot.
3. Let there be one head's length from the chin for the
breaft, and the next eighth part will reach to the navel, the
fourth part to the privities, the fifth part to the middle of the
thigh, the fixth part to the lower part of the knee, the feventh
to the fmall of the leg, and the eighth part to the heel.
4. You
purpofe draw a ftraight line, if the body be ftraight, from thd
throat, through the middle of the bread: and privities to the feet,
to which line draw all thofe particular points parallel, that the
body may not appear crooked or awry.
5. In the bowings and bendings of the body, let the extube-
rance of the outward part be juft equal to the compreflion of the
inward part, making all things of an equal proportion, that the
oppofite parts may be equal, as arm to arm, leg to leg, &c. fo
every part may be proportional to each other, as the hand not
too big for the arm, nor the arm for the body, nor the body for
the legs, &c. only with this difference, that, as the one part may
appear fully to the eve, or the other may turn away, either in
part or the whole, or be feen Tideways, it may be made fo much
lefs than the other, by fo much as it turns away from the fight.
6. As a juft proportion is to be obferved in bignefs, fo alfo
muft it in length, fo that every oppofite part may not be tod
long one for another, but according to the propofed magnitude ;
and in this cafe, that, if the body be awry, or any ways hid,
thofe parts may fhorten accordingly, to what is out of Tight.
7. The juft diflance of one thing from another, for by that
means you will be more exact in your draught, and be able in a
little time to imitate either pattern or nature more perfectly.
8. If you draw a labouring man, you muft reprefenthim with
ftrong limbs and raifed mufcles, fvvelling and ftanding out; efpe-
cially in bearers of burthens, drawing of weights, leaping, walk-
ing, combating with weapons, or fuch-like violent exercifes.
9. In reprefenting perfons afieep, you muft carefully avoid
giving anv fuch pofture or actions in their lying, as will not, in.
all probability, give them leave to fieep. For the weakneffes and
want of judgment in the artift will appear in reprefenting their
limbs or bodies fupported by their own force, and not by the
help of fome other thing.
Of Drawing a naked body. In Drawing after the life, as
there are great variety of faces, fo no certain rules can be de->
livered for it; yet the following precautions may be of ufe.
1. Draw the head in an oval, one fourth part for the hair*
one fourth part for the forehead and brows, one fourth for the
nofe, and the laft for the mouth and chin.
2. Having drawn the head, meafure out eight times the
length of it, the head making one of the eight parts, and draw
a ftraight line from the top of the head to the fole of the foot.
3. Let there be one head's length from the chin for the
breaft, and the next eighth part will reach to the navel, the
fourth part to the privities, the fifth part to the middle of the
thigh, the fixth part to the lower part of the knee, the feventh
to the fmall of the leg, and the eighth part to the heel.
4. You