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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19954#0029
DRAWING THE FIGURE.
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draw a line, cutting the first exactly at right angles, on
which the eyes are to be placed. Sketch lightly another
line or two below this for the nose, mouth, and chin. This
rule cannot be too strongly impressed upon the student,
who would not wish to see one eye higher than the other;
or the mouth and nose awry. On these lines block out
the features, marking them very square; and be careful
to place them in their true positions, making due allowance
for the perspective, and in just proportions. Having got
in the general form, go over the drawing carefully, giving
every feature its true form and expression.
The drawing being finished, hold it before a looking-
glass, when, from the position being reversed, bad drawing
will be easily detected. When you are satisfied with the
correctness of your outline, lay over it a piece of good
Prench tracing paper,"* and mark over the outline with a
brush dipped in water-colour. Next, take a piece of tissue-
paper, and rub over it a little charcoal, or red ochre, in
powder. Place the tracing carefully on the strained paper,
and fix the upper corners by placing the leaden weights
on them; then, without disturbing the tracing, slide the
tissue-paper with the coloured side downwards under the
tracing-paper, and pass over the outline with an ivory,
* Excellent tracing-paper, of very large size, may now be procured
at sixpence a sheet.
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draw a line, cutting the first exactly at right angles, on
which the eyes are to be placed. Sketch lightly another
line or two below this for the nose, mouth, and chin. This
rule cannot be too strongly impressed upon the student,
who would not wish to see one eye higher than the other;
or the mouth and nose awry. On these lines block out
the features, marking them very square; and be careful
to place them in their true positions, making due allowance
for the perspective, and in just proportions. Having got
in the general form, go over the drawing carefully, giving
every feature its true form and expression.
The drawing being finished, hold it before a looking-
glass, when, from the position being reversed, bad drawing
will be easily detected. When you are satisfied with the
correctness of your outline, lay over it a piece of good
Prench tracing paper,"* and mark over the outline with a
brush dipped in water-colour. Next, take a piece of tissue-
paper, and rub over it a little charcoal, or red ochre, in
powder. Place the tracing carefully on the strained paper,
and fix the upper corners by placing the leaden weights
on them; then, without disturbing the tracing, slide the
tissue-paper with the coloured side downwards under the
tracing-paper, and pass over the outline with an ivory,
* Excellent tracing-paper, of very large size, may now be procured
at sixpence a sheet.