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The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1895)

Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · London : George Allen, Sunnyside, Orpington · leaf 154

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122 THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING, [letter ii. that the type of each separate bough is again not a y but by Fig. 18; approximating, that is to say, so far to the structure of a plant of … b a Fig. 18. broccoli as to throw the great mass of spray and leafage out to a rounded surface. There- fore beware of getting into a careless habit of drawing boughs with successive sweeps of the pen or brush, one hanging to the other, as in Fig. 19. If you look at the tree-boughs in any painting…

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