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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eby the drawing. You will find, as time goes on, that youwill rightly register the perspective with more and more ease. Rules for perspective might be cited without end, but afew diagrams well studied will obviate many questions. Receding lines that are not parallel to the earth, says a per-spective rule, do not meet on the horizon, but either above orbelow. The sloping lid of a box, the sloping flap of a cellar, andthe sloping roof of a house do not lie parallel with the earth.This rule is clearly demonstrated in the diagrams shown onpp. 130 and 131. The student often meets in examination papers the state-ment : The drawing of a direct front view, or a full sideview, will disqualify a candidate. Why is this ? students invariably ask. Think for a minute. A box, a table, a wall, that faces your vision exactly haslines that lie parallel, and never meet. They cannot meetbecause they do not recede from you. A full front view, or a full side view, has no vanishing pointright or left. I 129
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