Architecture and how to sketch it : illustrated by sketches of typical examples (1910)
Roberts, H. W · London : G. Rowney and Co. · leaf 50
through imperfectteaching, often by people who do not sketch themselves,any number of sketches are made on this untruthfuleye-wandering basis. A reliance on eye training—which is generally veryslight—is often misleading ; measurement is the basisof accuracy. Instead of holding a pencil at… … of my eye. Sliding my thumbs along the edge andkeeping the thumb of my left hand at my eye levelI at once get accurate proportions, say height andwidth of a church. These proportions I now transferon to my sketch, and they—height above my horizon—and width—become standards of measurement, towhich…
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