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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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ements. Do not make a fetish of measuring. Use it merely as acheck, as a corrective. Draw first, measure afterward. Theobnoxious habit of measuring first, and ticking off themeasurement on the paper, is a trick unworthy of an artist.Moreover, it is a trap. The more we measure the less weprove. It is quite possible to measure until we stupefy our-selves. If you are in doubt—measure. Ask yourself, Have I made the nose too short ? Takea measurement of the nose and compare it with the length ofthe face. Have I drawn the house too tall in comparisonwith the poplar-tree, or the fence too high for the barn ? Measure the house against the tree, or the height of the fenceagainst the height of the barn. Possibly the proportions of the house, tree, fence, or barnare fairly satisfactory, but you are not quite satisfied with116 Measuring and Perspective the lines that run parallel with your eyes, the top of the roof,the top of the wall. Then put up your pencil or ruler, holding it at one end and
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Fig. 45 parallel with your eye, and at arms length. Close one eye.Raise or lower it until the roof or wall is almost but not quitecovered. The pencil or ruler has a smooth unbroken edge, andevery divergence from the straight line will be apparent. 117 Drawing for Beginners Parallel lines of roof, wall, box, or house can thus beeasily corrected. But what of the upright lines—thelintel of the door, the frame of a window, the sides of awall ? How shall we prove whether we have drawn thesecorrectly ? Take a piece of thick silk or cotton, preferably of a darktint, and weighted with a lump of lead (or some similarheavy substance), and you have one of mans oldest tools, theplumb-line. Hold this at arms length and between the finger and thumband before the object of your drawing. The plumb-line will prove whether the door or window isperfectly upright (or perpendicular). Pull your drawing-block, or drawing-board, forward and let the plumb-line hangbefore the doubtful line of your sketch. Th

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