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 46
26 FIGURE DRAWING AND COMPOSITION as a part presented to him. He must endeavour to express the fact that there is air all round the figure, and that it stands free by itself, with a background distant behind it, 5and space on every side. How to represent this fact is almost beyond telling, but it… … Fig. ii. — Employment of rigid outline. It is a fault, and a grave one, to allow oneself to regard a drawing of the figure as merely an assemblage of lines decoratively arranged, and to forget that a figure should never be drawn but to represent some one, some veritable person, which person will…
Figure drawing · Human figure in art · Anatomy, Artistic
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