Identifier: artconta16west00onta (find matches)
Title: Art
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Education
Subjects: Drawing
Publisher: Toronto : W. Briggs
Contributing Library: The University of Western Ontario, Western Archives
Digitizing Sponsor: Ontario Council of University Libraries and Member Libraries

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300 AET In order that the feet may be seen in their usual position in relation to theobservers eye, the model should be posed, if possible, so that the pupils are lookingdown at the feet; sometimes this can be managed by having the class stand to makethe sketch. Although the above instructions are given in order that the teachers and thepupils who wish to undertake the drawing of the features and other details mayknow how to go about it, it must be distinctly understood that the putting in ofthese details means the carrying of this subject further than is expected from pupilsin the Public and Separate Schools. THE BOY SCOUT, IX PEXCII. VALUES The illustration of the Boy Scout suggests an interesting pose and showsthree steps that may be taken in making a sketch of this kind. For purposes ofreproduction and to make the method of procedure quite plain, the lines in Figures
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THE BOY SCOUT, IN PENCIL VALUES LESSONS IN FREEHAND PEESPECTIVE 301 1 and 2 have been made heavier than the preliminary lines of a sketch should bemade. Figure 1 shows the action lines or framework on which the figure is to bebuilt. Figure 2 gives the blocking in of the shape on these action lines. Figure 3shows the finished sketch. It is neither necessary nor advisable to put in theaction lines in every drawing of the figure. They should be kept in mind,however. This sketch might have been made according to the following steps: 1. Slightly curved lines feeling for the top of the hat and the toe of the left foot, to place the height of the whole figure 2. Slanting lines, one to locate the line of the right shoulder and the base of the neck, others for the waist line, the placing of each knee, and thesole of the right foot 3. A swinging line for the outside of the left arm and the corresponding line of the right arm from shoulder to elbow, and another for the position ofthe staff 4. A

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