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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.1274#0110
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SECTION VI.
Posture of the Body.
A.N idle and distorted mode of sitting to draw lias
given discredit to the art, and has even occasioned it
to be thought injurious to the figure. On the contrary,
Drawing is calculated to form an elegant shape, and to
remove an irregular turn in the body induced by any
former bad habit.
To be well performed, it requires a graceful attitude,
and perfect ease.
It will have been discovered, by the preceding rules,
that the Artificial Perspective Plane, or the Drawing,
is not in a proper situation, unless perpendicular to the
Ground Plane; that Lines on the Drawing are con-
tracted in length, as this Plane declines towards the
Horizontal Plane, till all the representation is lost in
one Horizontal Line; by consequence, if a Drawing is
made on a Plane Oblique to the visual ray, the Lines
extended to appear thus in Proportion, will be dispro-
portionately long when the paper recovers its Perpen-
dicular Position, as when it is placed to be seen.
SECTION VI.
Posture of the Body.
A.N idle and distorted mode of sitting to draw lias
given discredit to the art, and has even occasioned it
to be thought injurious to the figure. On the contrary,
Drawing is calculated to form an elegant shape, and to
remove an irregular turn in the body induced by any
former bad habit.
To be well performed, it requires a graceful attitude,
and perfect ease.
It will have been discovered, by the preceding rules,
that the Artificial Perspective Plane, or the Drawing,
is not in a proper situation, unless perpendicular to the
Ground Plane; that Lines on the Drawing are con-
tracted in length, as this Plane declines towards the
Horizontal Plane, till all the representation is lost in
one Horizontal Line; by consequence, if a Drawing is
made on a Plane Oblique to the visual ray, the Lines
extended to appear thus in Proportion, will be dispro-
portionately long when the paper recovers its Perpen-
dicular Position, as when it is placed to be seen.