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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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m their surfaces. Having now drawn Margerys foot in shoe and stocking,perhaps we shall persuade Margery to pose in the sameposition without her shoes and stockings, as if she were onher way to paddle in the sea. Now you see the bones more easily, and having markedthe two large and simple angles of leg and foot, as in theprevious drawing, we continue with the rest of the foot. Theheel looks a trifle smaller; the toes, being unhampered withleather, spread, and the big toe asserts itself. Block first thetoes as a large shape, noting their tips and roots, and workingfrom the tendons (seen between the ankles) and the archingmuscles of the upper part of the instep, and then divide andsketch the toes and their various angles. The drawing of the foot clothed has, I am sure, helped youwith the drawing of the naked foot. The sandal worn by the Romans, with its half-covering ofthe toes, and its straps and ribbons across the instep, andits thick sole—and one can roughly contrive a sandal with56
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Fig. 20. Margerys Foot 56 Drawing Feet the monkeys, the tree-as we use our thumbs, cardboard and ribbons at home—makes a most interestingsubject to draw. Sandals, by the interweaving of their straps, draw ourattention to the variety of shapes of the toes, which we toooften overlook. The big toe is an important member of thefoot; indeed, of the whole body. When the foot is raisedit is the big toe that spreads and separates from the othertoes, and helps to balance the foot. The big toe is as char-acteristic as the thumb. (Indeed,climbing animals, use the big toeto grasp and hold thebranches.) It is usuallysquare-tipped, thick, andmuscular. The next toeis slender and long, thesecond and third toesgraduate, and the littletoe is curved or doubledup, and is almost morenegligible in size andappearance than thelittle finger. It is interesting to learn that by the use of the feet andthe manipulation of the toes, artists, or, at all events, crafts-men, have been helped in their work. A famous

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