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1. In the very early drawings they’re nothing more than simple line drawings—
2. Work built up on outline drawing to which has been added light and shade, colour, aerial perspective, &c
3. Let us call the first method Line Drawing and the second Mass Drawing
4. the student neglects line drawing, his work will lack the expressive significance of form that only a feeling for lines seems to have the secret of conveying; while, if he neglects mass drawing, he will be poorly equipped when he comes to express form with a brush full of paint to work with
5. Most of the earliest forms of drawing known to us in history, like those of the child we were discussing in the last chapter, are largely in the nature of outline drawings
6. Its relationship with visual appearances is not sufficient to justify the instinct for line drawing
7. The study, therefore, of pure line drawing is of great importance to the painter, and the numerous drawings that exist by the great masters in this method show how much they understood its value
8. And the revival of line drawing, and the desire there is to find a simpler convention founded on this basis, are among the most hopeful signs in the art of the moment
9. In the preceding chapter it has, I hope, been shown that outline drawing is an instinct with Western artists and has been so from the earliest times; that this instinct is due to the fact that the first mental idea of an object is the sense of its form as a felt thing, not a thing seen; and that an outline drawing satisfies and appeals directly to this mental idea of objects
10. In opposition to line drawing, we may call this Mass Drawing
11. From the study of outline drawing the eye is trained to accurate observation and learns the expressive value of a line
12. United at last, when complete light and shade has been added to his outline drawings and to his mass drawing an intimate knowledge of form, the results will approximate and the two paths will meet
13. In Line Drawing shading should only be used to aid the expression of form
14. In line drawing it is as well to take as little notice as possible of these variations which disturb the contemplation of pure form and do not belong to the particular province of form expression with which drawing is concerned
15. Although one has selected a strong half light and half shade effect to illustrate the general principles of light and shade, it is not advisable in making line drawings to select such a position
16. The contours, as they are turned away from the light, will naturally be darker, and against a light background your subject has an appearance with dark edges that is easily expressed by a line drawing
17. Don't burden a line drawing with heavy half tones and shadows; keep them light
18. The beauty that is the particular province of line drawing is the beauty of contours, and this is marred by heavy light and shade
19. But I will try and illustrate one that is at any rate logical, and that may serve as a fair type of line drawing generally
20. Let this be a setting out of the ground upon which you will afterwards express the form, rather than a drawing—the same scaffolding, in fact, that you were advised to do in the case of a line drawing, only, in that case, the drawing proper was to be done with a point, and in this case the drawing proper is to be done with a brush full of paint
21. The use of charcoal to the neglect of line drawing often gets the student into a sloppy manner of work, and is not so good a training to the eye and hand in clear, definite statement
22. As your power of drawing increases (from the line drawing you have been doing), casts of hands and heads should be attempted in the same manner as has been described
23. We saw, in speaking of line drawing, how the character of a line was found by observing its flatnesses and its relation to straight lines
24. Use the side of your white chalk when you want a mass, or work in parallel lines (hatching) on the principle described in the chapter on line drawing
25. Let us consider first variety and unity as they are related to line drawing, and afterwards to mass drawing
26. The only means you have to express this in a line drawing is by darkening and sharpening the line
27. In conjunction with my chapter on how to draw trend lines, if you have previously used my trend-line drawing methods, you may have already drawn lines at some of those support/resistance levels
28. Using a line drawing of a human form, Claire pointed out where my bullets had entered Sara Cabot’s body
29. His face was the problem, an approximation anyhow, a line drawing of the Butcher that wasn’t half-bad