Analysis of drawing, painting and composing (1904)
Moore, H. L · London : Printed by VIncent Brooks, Day & Son, Ltd. · leaf 70
this use your hand to fix the size. Thus: putyour thumbnail to the bottom of your chin and see howfar the little finger will extend over the forehead, thenmake the copy so that this span takes in a little more, theresult will thus be a little smaller than life; and this isperhaps better than quite… … advised. In wandering from point to point in the face youhave lost sight of the shape of the face as a whole. If younow turn your attention to this only you will at once realizehow much you have gone astray (figure 2), and that allthese details are merely negative quantities. You shouldhave got…
Composition (Art) · Drawing · Painting
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