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 313
293 COMPOSITION tained, the figures will be precisely the same size although at different distances. In both diagrams the pavement is in squares of one foot. In A, the rear figure is 6 feet behind the forward one, while the spectator is 12 feet before that. In B, the measurements are 9 feet and 18 … Fig. 181. — Effect of short (a) and long (b) distance perspective. feet; thus while the figures are the same size in both, a greater depth is suggested in B. Similarly, if a figure were placed in B, at the limit of 6 feet on the ground, it would be much larger than the figure at 6 feet in A. The…
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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