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Title: The American drawing-book : a manual for the amateur, and basis of study for the professional artist : especially adapted to the use of public and private schools, as well as home instruction
Year: 1847 (1840s)
Authors: Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889
Subjects: Drawing
Publisher: New York : J.S. Redfield
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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77. However admirable and perfect may be the antique statues in their proportions and details,and however desirable it may be to place before the pupil the choicest models for the exerciseof his skill, it is enough for his present purposes to look to the familiar objects which are withinhis reach. A boys foot can be found without seeking it in an academy 5 and, if it has not beenalready distorted by the shoemaker, affords a model well worth his study and best effort. First,let him try the example here placed before him, and then, doubtless, he may find a youngfriend not unwilling to submit to serve as his model ; and, if he has done all that has beenrequired of him, and carefully exercises himself in these few examples, he will possess thecapacity of drawing a foot, and presently a hand, from nature, with ease and accuracy 5—andmore: if he can draw a Head, a Hand, and a Foot, he can draw the Figure, or any other THE HUMAN FOOT. 63
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familiar object 5 not, perhaps, with the precision and touch of a master, but he can achieveenough to insure the possession of a safe and certain groundwork of useful practical knowledgeand facility of Design. 78. The first thing to be done, in drawing the above example, is carefully to examine andstudy the original, and to ascertain its proportions, as nearly as you can, without measuring.Then cautiously set about its outline, which should be accurately, but delicately denned, beforeany attempt is made to express the shadows or tints, which are in comparison with it of sec-ondary importance, especially at this stage of your progress. Be not *in a hurry to make pic-tures ; learn to draw correctly, and the pictures you make, by-and-by, will be all the better for it. r,-i RUDIMENTS OF DRAWING.

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