Free-hand drawing : a guide to ornamental, figure, and landscape drawing (1868)
Art student · Edinburgh : W.P. Nimmo · leaf 79
osition alters, so does their appearance. The following subordinate principle springs fromthis fundamental canon: Horizontal, oblique, andcurved lines may run in apparently other directionsthan their real ones. A line may be joined to a ver-tical one, so as to form a right angle, and such line… … Fig. 31. Fig. 32. Fig. 33. Or again : let the student place himself at the end of along wall, whose top is about the same height as hishead. He is perfectly aware of the fact that the twolines which form the base and the top run parallel thewhole of its length. It is five feet high from one endto…
Drawing · Decoration and ornament · Figure drawing
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