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])

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CONCLUSION.

now find in many published works, there is a departure
from the method adopted by the Greeks; the difference
between them is that the modern school use a line of
twofold quality where a thicker and a thinner portion are
intended to represent the shaded and lighted side of the
object; and this may stand as its apology.

CONCLUSION.

Having now gone through the proportions of the
figure, and directed the student's attention to the method
considered advisable to be pursued in the continuation of
this study, little remains to be added. The theory of
drawing is comprised in a very small compass. To make
the accomplished draughtsman, practice and experience
are required; all the teacher can do is, to direct the
practice; and the best result is obtained when the pupil
is taught to think for himself, and form by experience
his own conclusions.

Drawing, like writing, is an imitative art; letters arc
first formed, then combined into words, and those words
form the means of explaining our requirements and
communicating our ideas.

In drawing, we produce the resemblance of objects; the
combination of these objects represents circumstances,