The Elements of Drawing in Three Letters to Beginners
The Elements of Drawing in Three Letters to Beginners
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
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So, after your single groups of leaves, your first step must be to conditions like Figs. 14. and 15., which are careful facsimiles of two portions of a beautiful woodcut of Durer's, the Flight into Egypt. Copy these carefully, — never mind how little at a time, but thoroughly ; then trace the Durer, and apply it to your drawing, and do not be content till the. one fits the other, else your eye is not true enough to ii^i ■■■III ■111! III! MM ^^'^ry you safely through meshes ^ Ifj^Bst^HiSSSl of r...eal leaves. And in the course * '^""^ *^ .*^*^^^t4ff Qf doing this, you will find that not a line nor dot of Durer's can be displaced without harm ; that all add to the effect, and either express something, or illumine something, or relieve something. If, afterwards, you copy any of the pieces of modern tree drawing, of wnicn so many rich examples are given constantly in our cheap illustrated periodicals (any of the Christmas numbers of last year's Illustrated News or Times are full of them), you will see that, though good and forcible general effect is produced, the lines are thrown in by thousands without special intention, and might just as well go one way as another, so only that there Digitized by VjOOQIC LET.
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