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A textbook on lettering and sign painting (1902)

International Correspondence Schools · Scranton, International textbook company · leaf 82

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For drawing in pencil, a Dixons Artists H pencil.No. 217 (commonly called a No. 4 Dixons Artists) may be ELEMENTS OF LETTERING. 71 used. The pencil should be sharpened to a medium point.Cut the wood away so as to leave about ^ or f of an inch of thelead projecting; then finish the point by rubbing… … Fig. 104. compass lead is so secured that, ivhen circles are struck in eitherdirection, but one line will be draivn with the same radius and center. 141. Inking.—For drawing ink lines other than arcs ofcircles, the ruling pen (or right-line ^Mn, as it is sometimescalled) is used. It should be held…

Lettering · Sign painting

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