Smith, Thomas [Hrsg.]: The Art Of Drawing In Its Various Branches: Exemplified In A Course Of Twenty-Eight progressive Lessons, Calculated To Afford Those Who Are Unacquainted With The Art, The Means Of Acquiring A Competent Knowledge Without The Aid Of A Master ; Being The Only Work Of The Kind In Which The Principles Of Effect Are Explained In A Clear, Methodical, And At The Same Time Familiar Style. Illustrated With Coloured Designs And Numerous Wood Engravings (London, 1827)

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The method I followed -was to copy the rich waving
lines which we see in the best wood-cuts, and which I
adapted to the representation of earth, rocks, buildings,
fyc.; whilst the manner of finishing trees and tree-
stems I gained by copying the engravings of Woolett,
and the finishing of animals from those of Scott: and
and this is the method I would strongly recommend to
those who wish to acquire ability in this part of the
profession, the easiest and lowest, though possessing
considerable beauty when well executed..

LESSON XII.

On Drawing in Indian Ink.

Though (as I have before observed) I consider
learning to draw in Indian ink before learning to draw in
colours, as a perfect waste of time, I shall still, in
compliance with the custom of most drawing-masters,
give my lesson on this department of the art before I
proceed to colouring; advising, at the same time, that
the student should pass it over for the reasons I have
given in the Introduction : for the same reason I have

style as blacklead can possibly admit of; but his drawing will
only consist of a number of lines laid together in a most beautiful
manner, without the least display of feeling, as far as regards the
nature of the object represented, whilst every line in the rough un-
finished sketch of the artist will give a more faithful delineation of
nature than the most finished drawing of the learner.

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