Free-hand drawing : a guide to ornamental, figure, and landscape drawing (1868)
Art student · Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo · leaf 29
may be drawn by the student in thedirection of the lines in figs. 5 and 6. He will, if he DRAWING OF CURVED LINES AND FIGURES. 21 be ingenious, multiply examples of this curve, andcopy it in all directions,—vertical, horizontal, andoblique. The drawing of an ellipse, fig. 14, can now beattempted. A… … Fig. 14. Fig. 15 is similarly copied. The difference betweenfigs. 14 and 15 is, that whereas the curves of thelatter are parts of circles, there is no portion of theformer which could by possibility be described withcompasses. 22 FREE-HAND DRAWING. a/ | i m\ J 1 Fig. 15. This figure (16) is perhaps…
Drawing · Decoration and ornament · Figure drawing
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