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letter ii.] SKETCHING- FROM NATURE. 175
and other derivative masters, the conventional-
ism prevails everywhere, and sinks gradually into
scrawled work, like Fig. 28., about the worst which
it is possible to get
into the habit of
using, though an ig-
norant person might
perhaps suppose it
more " free" and
therefore better than
Fig. 26. Note also,
that in noble outline
drawing, it does not
follow that a bough
is wrongly drawn,
Fig. 28.
because it looks con-
tracted unnaturally somewhere, as in Fig. 26., just
above the foliage. Very often the muscular action
which is to be expressed by the line runs into
the middle of the branch, and the actual outline
of the branch at that place may be dimly seen, or
not at all; and it is then only by the future shade
and other derivative masters, the conventional-
ism prevails everywhere, and sinks gradually into
scrawled work, like Fig. 28., about the worst which
it is possible to get
into the habit of
using, though an ig-
norant person might
perhaps suppose it
more " free" and
therefore better than
Fig. 26. Note also,
that in noble outline
drawing, it does not
follow that a bough
is wrongly drawn,
Fig. 28.
because it looks con-
tracted unnaturally somewhere, as in Fig. 26., just
above the foliage. Very often the muscular action
which is to be expressed by the line runs into
the middle of the branch, and the actual outline
of the branch at that place may be dimly seen, or
not at all; and it is then only by the future shade