Identifier: freehanddrawingm1898cros (find matches)
Title: Free-hand drawing : a manual for teachers and students
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Cross, Anson K. (Anson Kent), 1862-1944
Subjects: Drawing
Publisher: Boston : Ginn & Company
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Fig. Incorrectly Accented. i8 FREE-HAND DRAWING. It is not possible to see simply, to realize effects and masses, with-out the blurred vision, which gives an impression of the whole subject
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Fig. II. Correctly Accented at once. No injury to the eyes results from proper blurring of visionby a blur-glass, but if pupils try to look through it instead of at it,they injure the sight and fail to see the masses. OUTLINE DRAWING. I 9 Although no rule for accenting can be given, the effect is foundto conform to the principle that any detail luhich comes in either themass of the light or that of the shadow is ttnimportant. Thus an edgedefining a light surface against another surface also light is notprominent, and an edge separating a surface in the shadow fromanother shade surface is seen faintly. The important features arethose which come between the light and the shadow. But fromwhat has been said it will be realized that an outline drawing ismost conventional, and that the representation of what is really seenof outline will often be most unsatisfactory. The contour of anobject is absolute, and an outline will give what the eye sees; butto express in outline artistically the pu

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