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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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hard cricket-ball; a cakeof soap and a loofah. A womans hat with a soft wide brim(not the pudding basin variety, which is most difficult forunpractised fingers), trimmed with a cluster of berries, or atwisted bow of ribbon, gives us several different textures. We must hold the pencil delicately, loosely, and half-wayup the shaft if we wish to convey the delicacy of fur andfine hairs. If we would show the richness of velvet, we mustuse our pencil with determination and shift our fingers fora shorter and firmer grip. All this will come with practice. There is no need to worryyourself with harassing doubts. Do your best; no one cando more. When we work alone, we are very apt to get weary anddepressed with our difficulties. We sit before our little models and look so often that wesee less and less, instead of more and more. It is very wise occasionally to cover up your model, or, atany rate, to turn your back upon it for a while. This will often appear to increase your difficulties, but26
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Fig. 4r. Models illustrating Varied Shapes and Textures 26 How to Begin it will tend to quicken your observation, and this is worthany extra trouble or discouragement that may be entailed.There is a temptation to look continually at our models, andin consequence we look at them more often than is necessary.If, after looking at the model, we hide it from sight andthen proceed with our drawing, obviously we must work frommemory. The habit of working without models is soondeveloped, and it adds enormously to our powers of takingnotice. 27 CHAPTER II Drawing our Toys WHEN we are very small nothing seems too difficultfor our pencil. If we wish to draw a tree, a horse,or an engine, we make no bones about the matter,we draw it. Possibly the drawings may look rather quaintin the eyes of other people, but they satisfy ourselves. And behind these quaint early drawings lies, more oftenthan not, a sound and practical line of reasoning. You know, for instance, how fond is Baby John of drawingan en

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