Whittock, Nathaniel: The Art Of Drawing And Colouring, From Nature, Birds, Beasts, Fishes, And Insects: With Plain And Coloured Drawings, From Original Paintings By Morland, Vernet, Howet, Le Cave, &c. (London, 1830)

LESSON VIII.

THE WILD BOAR AND LION.

These spirited heads form a very excellent lesson in penciling'
either with or without the landscape ; but the student that can produce
the animals with spirit and accuracy will find little dissiculty in copying
the scenery which forms so beautisul a back ground to the picture.
l he outline of the lion's head should be sketched very lightly, and,
according to the preceding directions, drawing a very saint line down
the centre of the oval forming the sace; upon this line make points
shewing the distance of the features srom each other, taking care to
make those for the corners os the eyes at equal distances srom
the centre line, and likewise make points sor the nostrils and the
corners of the lower lip. The annexed diagram will shew how the
lion's head is divided.

An oval is sirst drawn, or rather a sigure in the sorm os an egg,