Weigall, Charles Harvey; Mason, Walter George [Ill.]: The Art Of Figure Drawing: Containing Practical Instructions For A Course Of Study In This Branch Of Art ; With Seventeen Illustrations, Drawn On Wood By The Author, And Engraved By Walter G. Mason (London, 1853 [ersch.1854])

THE ART

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FIGURE DRAWING.

LINES.

The power of making a line is of paramount importance.
In all pencil or chalk drawing, the shading and finishing
are but a repetition of lines, and if one line cannot be
made with an equal pressure of the pencil throughout,
the evenness of tint necessary to produce the appearance
of shadow cannot be arrived at: one line in a mass of
shading, uneven in its form or colour, interrupts the
continuity necessary to produce the proper effect • and
although we find that a certain amount of mechanical i
dexterity in handling the pencil is not difficult to be
attained, its necessity is not sufficiently insisted upon in
the first instance. Neither must it be forgotten, that
when we leave the pencil for the use of the brush, we