Free-hand drawing : a guide to ornamental, figure, and landscape drawing (1868)
Art student · Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo · leaf 30
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… … Fig. 16. the free-hand draughtsman to deal with, and it is con- DRAWING OF CURVED LINES AND FIGURES. 23 sequently no wonder that the facility of Giotto in de-scribing it with one uninterrupted stroke of his pencilshould have become proverbial. It requires the utmostnicety of calculation, and the…
Drawing · Decoration and ornament · Figure drawing
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