The elements of drawing in three letters to beginners (1898)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : Maynard, Merrill ; London : G. Allen · leaf 139
utonly to get as much record of the object asyou can in a given time; and that you con-tinually make efforts to go beyond such short-hand, and draw portions of the objects rightly. LETTER I.] ON FIRST PRACTICE. 99 93. And touching this question of directionof lines as indicating that of surface,… … Fig. 10. the object. Thus, in the piece of woodcutfrom Titian, Fig. 10, the lines are serviceableby expressing, not only the shade of thetrunk, but partly also its roundness, and theflow of its grain. And Albert Diirer, whosework was chiefly engraving, sets himselfalways thus to make his lines as…
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