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What to draw and how to draw it

Chapter 2: INSTRUCTIONS
By Edwin George Lutz
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About This Book

The work offers a step-by-step, diagram-led method for drawing a wide range of subjects—animals, people, birds, buildings, toys and simple scenes—by progressing through numbered sketches that culminate in a finished picture. Light construction lines, geometric guides like circles and ovals, and a remembered key line are emphasized to teach proportion, perspective, and foreshortening in an accessible way. Instructional plates include techniques for drawing ellipses and ovals and brief practical guidance on watercolor materials and mixing, all presented for young learners and beginners.

INSTRUCTIONS

In drawing from this book, copy the last diagram, or finished picture, of the particular series before you.

The other diagrams—beginning with number one, then number two, and so on—show how to go on with your drawing. They give the order in which to make the various strokes of the pencil that together form the completed picture. The dotted lines indicate where light lines are drawn that help in construction—that is; getting proportions correctly, outlining the general form, or marking details in their proper places. Do not press hard on the pencil in making these construction lines, then they can be erased afterwards.

Use pencil compasses for the circles, or mark them off with buttons or disks.

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