Figure drawing and composition : being a number of hints for the student and designer upon the treatment of the human figure by Richard G. Hatton (1895)
Hatton, Richard George, 1864-1926 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 286
balance the composition. The shape of a group will be determined by various circumstances incidental to the action of the figures, but the most generally used are the triangular (Fig. 159), the vertical and horizontal ovals (Figs. 161 and 169), the pear- shaped, and the pentagonal. These forms are… … Fig. T59. Fig. 160. Within the group the lines of the figures will fall into a harmonious arrangement radiating tangentially with one another, or from the chief points of interest in the group (Fig. 162). The result is a linear dance from point to point, including and embracing all the figures.…
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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