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 298
278 FIGURE DRAWING AND COMPOSITION given why any drapery should be fluttering about at all. It seems, indeed, as if in this style of composition the persons were continually living amid gusts of wind. The other kind of vortex composition is that in which … Fig. 171. the limbs of the figure spread out in a star-like manner, as in Fig. 171. It may be said that these are also oval or circular designs, the limbs being arranged at right angles to the circumference. Both of the kinds of com-
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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