ed to express drapery should beflowing, continuous, and generally of variablebreadth; those used for the flesh or for somekind of fruit should partake of the same char-acter ; hard substances, such as armor, statu-ary, etc., should be expressed by uniform linesof a fine character; and the foliage… … Never jag your lines by making them by fitsand starts; let the motion of your hand befree and uninterrupted, so as to form a con-tinuous line ; for, if the pencil is removed fromthe paper, a line like a saw will be the result. We need not remind our pupils that thereare extremes of outline as in…
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