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Project Gutenberg's The Practice and Science Of Drawing, by Harold Speed This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Practice and Science Of Drawing Author: Harold Speed Release Date: December 6, 2004 [EBook #14264] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK SCIENCE OF DRAWING *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE PRACTICE & SCIENCE OF DRAWING BY HAROLD SPEED Associe de la Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, &c. * * * * * With 93 Illustrations & Diagrams * * * * * LONDON SEELEY, SERVICE & CO. LIMITED 38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET 1913 * * * * * [Illustration: Plate I. FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS OF SAME MONOCHROME PAINTING IN DIFFERENT STAGES ILLUSTRATING A METHOD OF STUDYING MASS DRAWING WITH THE BRUSH] * * * * * PREFACE Permit me in the first place to anticipate the disappointment of any student who opens this book with the idea of finding "wrinkles" on how to draw faces, trees, clouds, or what not, short cuts to excellence in drawing, or any of the tricks so popular with the drawing masters of our grandmothers and still dearly loved by a large number of people. No good can come of such methods, for there are no short cuts to excellence. But help of a very practical kind it is the aim of the following pages to give; although it may be necessary to make a greater call upon the intelligence of the student than these Victorian methods attempted. It was not until some time after having passed through the course of training in two of our chief schools of art that the author got any idea of what drawing really meant. What was taught was the faithful copying of a series of objects, beginning with the simplest forms, such as cubes, cones, cylinders, &c. (an excellent system to begin with at present in danger of some neglect), after which more complicated objects in plaster of Paris were attempted, and finally copies of the human head and figure posed
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