Ruskin, John: The elements of drawing: in three letters to beginners (London, 1857)

LETTER I.]

ON FIEST PRACTICE.

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the outline as delicate, and draw the branches far
enough into their outer sprays to give quite as

Fig. 4.

slender ramification as you have in this figure,
otherwise you do not get good enough practice out of
them.

You cannot do too many studies of this kind:
every one will give you some new notion about trees:
but when you are tired of tree boughs, take any forms
whatever which are drawn in flat colour, one upon