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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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sher blue orbs, though she is rocked until her small mistresssarms ache with fatigue, and Dahlia, proud, snub-nosed, andlong-bodied. Primrose has a real dolly face, rosy cheeks,big round staring eyes, arched eyebrows, and pouting lips.We might do worse than study Primrose. Her eyes areglassy and stuck in oblong sockets; beyond that they haveno more than a general resemblance to human eyes. ButPrimrose has not such an ill-proportioned body as some ofher little doll-sisters, though her legs are stiff, and her arms areabsurdly small. Sketch first her large head, then her long body, the anglesof her plump legs, and her tiny arms. Roughly mark theposition of nose and eyes, the shape of the bobbed locks cutsquarely across the brow and at the level of the ear. Lookat the length of the tunic, the skirt, and the socks, the edgeof the sleeve folds under the arm. The feet being slightlyupturned expose the tiniest slip of the sole of the shoes. When you have the head on paper, then you can mark84
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Fig. 6. Toy Horse and Doll 34 Drawing our Toys the features; arched eyebrows, tiny nose, dimpled chin, andabsurdly fat apple-dumpling cheeks. Observe the large sockets of the staring eyes, the tiny pinklips. Shade in the soft hair, and note that it clings to the shapeof the head, and the ends are fluffy. The velvet tunic sticks out at the hips, and the fur edgingon the skirt just covers the knees. Mark that the upper edge of the sock follows the curve ofthe fat legs, and notice also the curious dimpled fingers thatseem proper to the little girl doll. Dont trouble too much about detail. Draw the chiefthings and let the others slide. And having proceeded stepby step from wooden toy to waxen doll, we might next con-sider certain little people of more importance—ourselves. 35 CHAPTER III Drawing Ourselves and Others WHEN we first try to draw each other it is bestto choose fairly easy positions. Put your smallbrother into an exaggerated attitude—for example,rushing toward you with arms

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