Drawing for beginners (1920) (14753346995)

Identifier: drawingforbeginn00furn (find matches)
Title: Drawing for beginners
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Furniss, Dorothy
Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Pelham, N. Y. : Bridgman Publishers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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such asa womans hair or a mans beard; then we confine ourselvesto the drawing of the features. There is no sense in racing along if by nature you are aplodder. We must all gang our ain gait. Personally, however, I have a feeling, or rather a con-viction, that if I cannot capture something of the likenessin the earliest stages it will always elude me. From the very first attack the angle of the head, theplacing of the neck on the shoulders, the cock of the eye,the droop of the lip. There is another point to bear in mind. Do not get tooeasily discouraged. Dont be depressed if your efforts donot gain immediate success. You must try many timesbefore you can hope to be proficient. After all, you do not expect to play a sonata of Beethovens,or to write a thesis on an abstruse subject, or to compose anexquisite lyric—without practice. And remember too that you are in search of the unex-pected. It is your business to find and record facts usuallyunnoticed by persons who are not artists.166
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Fig. 85. Likenesses Drawing for Beginners Naturally some people are more easy to draw than others.Those with marked characteristics are the easiest of all. Ifyou have any choice in the matter, choose some one withstriking features, the drawing of which you cannot miss. Take your subtle andmore delicate studieslater. When I was a childI was very fond ofcopying photographsof celebrities frompapers and magazines—not such a badmethod of trainingthe eye and hand inthe curious ways ofcatching a likeness.And I remember copy-ing a charming profileof a certain littleprincess (her daughteris now as old as thepicture to which Irefer), and her RoyalHighnesss ear was ofa prodigious size. If■^ some one looked at Fig.86. PEX-POKTBAiTO^LomsAM. Alcott ^^^ drawing without recognizing the subject I would say indignantly, Oh, butyou must see who it is by the ear! That I knew to beright. I was quite annoyed when a friend said with an airof surprise, But I have never noticed the Princesss ear wasso lar