Identifier: drawingforbeginn00furn (find matches)
Title: Drawing for beginners
Year: 1920 (1920s)

Dorothy Furniss  (1879–1944)
Description	artist
Date of birth/death	1879	1944
Authority file	: Q18784974 VIAF: 92987496 NLA: 35646186 Open Library: OL2371342A

Subjects: Drawing -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Pelham, N. Y. : Bridgman Publishers
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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w any rules, for we knowthe human figure is capable of every variety of form. Still,as a check to an observation that cannot always be correct,as a trifling guide when perplexing moments beset us, thesefacts are worth noting. A grown man of good proportion, when standing erect,usually measures seven and a half heads high. Remember,however, that this is the proportion of a perfectly formedman. A very, very tall man would not have an elongatedbody, but longer legs. The bodies of most men are the samelength. A man when standing with his arms to his sides willrest the tips of his fingers a little more than half-way betweenhis hips and knees. A figure when sitting roughly represents three lines of afairly equal length, measuring from the nape of the neck tothe seat, from the seat to the knee, from the knee to the foot. An elbow usually rests in the hollow below the waist, asyou can prove for yourself by clapping your arms to your side. A hand measures the same length as the face. Put the80
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Fig. 33. Pkopoetions of the Human Figure Drawing for Beginners palm of your hand against your chin and spread your fingersupward. A nose is the same length as a thumb. The ear the samelength as a nose. And, having gleaned these few ordinarily accepted rules, youwill probably find your next model will have arms too long,legs too short, and a nose disagreeing most profoundly withthe length of the thumb. Nature is a law unto itself, and Ibring these few suggestions to you with some misgivings. If your eye insists that your model measures but fiveheads high, accept that as a fact. Very few human beingsare correctly proportioned. n CHAPTER VIII Drawing Inanimate Things HOUSES, hats, motor-cars, chairs, beds, and boats—all these and many other inanimate things are fruit-ful of much worry for the young and inexperiencedartist. Why is it, we ask ourselves, that the hat of the manin my drawing does not look as if it would fit on his head ?How can I make it right ? And the reply comes, Measur

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