Smith, Thomas [Editor]: 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)

ON FIGURE DRAW I NG.

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principally from Hamilton’s Drawing-Book, extremely

useful.

The length of the head, neck, and trunk, is half of
the entire height of the figure.

The lower extremities form the other half.

The entire height of a figure is ten times the length of
its face, which begins at the lowest hairs of the fore-
head, and ends at the chin.

From the top of the head to the forehead is one-third
of a face.

The face is divided into three equal parts, of which
one contains the forehead, the next the nose, and
the third the mouth and chin.

From the chin to the pit between the two collar bones
at the bottom of the neck, two-thirds of a face.

From the bottom of the neck to the bottom of the
breast, one face.

The remaining part of the trunk two faces.

The thigh down to the middle of the knee, two faces
and a quarter.

From the middle of the knee to the ankle, two faces
and a quarter.

From the ankle to the sole of the foot, half a face.

A man, when his arms are stretched out, is, from the
longest finger of his right hand to the longest finger of
his left hand, as broad as he is high.

From one side of his breast to the other, two faces.

From the shoulder to the elbow’, two faces.

From the elbow to the root of the little finger, two faces.