Duplication of Design. When making a design in which the details are frequently duplicated, draw each minor detail and then make a tracing with a sharp-pointed soft pencil; redraw the lines on the other side of the tracing paper, and
with a stylus or whatever hard substance is used to make the offset rub briskly on the side opposite the last traced design.
To duplicate the design wherever it is to be placed repeat each part of the design as often as necessary to produce the entire plan of ornament.
In making a frame-like design make corner-pieces first and join to whatever border may be selected.
Retracing Necessary. When each "repeat" is to be made frequently, it will be necessary to retrace (over the same lines) several times, because a portion of the graphite, of which the pencil lead is composed, is transferred to the paper beneath at each offset. After three or four offsets, the transfers thus made will become too dim to act as guides. The plan for transferring as described in the chapter on Tracing and Transferring can lie used in these exercises.
Aids for Imagination. Draw curves similar to the above and add floral and decorative forms as suggested below. The intention of this exercise is to arouse the inventive faculties of the pupil. These devices may be drawn on the blackboard and the pupils requested to make totally different curves in addition. The curves should be all drawn separately and the Decorations added afterward.
EXERCISES IN FIGS. 6 AND 7
Permit Use of Guide Lines. Among the first exercises in drawing, practically the same principles may be applied that are applicable to the teaching of penmanship. Guide lines should be permitted; that is, simple lines constructed along the horizontal and oblique sides. The exercises indicated at the beginning of each row of figures should be made the subject of a single lesson. The lines indicated at the right of each row should be added as the pupil advances; for instance, let the pupil draw, say, a hundred straight, oblique lines, until he becomes proficient in their use. Follow with the reverse and duplicated lines in the top row. After that let him draw the simple curves at the left of the second row a great man}- times before he progresses to the added and duplicated, triplicated and quadrupled curves at the right.
Sections
- Action Drawing
- Advice To Teachers
- Beginners Instructions
- Blocking In
- Clay Modeling
- Copying By Triangulation
- Decorative Ornamental Art
- Drawing From Nature
- Early Exercises
- Elementary Lines
- Elementary Perspective
- Expression Emotion
- Foreshortening
- Geometrical Form
- How To Draw Animals
- How To Draw Cartoons
- How To Draw Charcoal Crayon
- How To Draw Flowers
- How To Draw Women Men Children
- Lettering
- Light And Shade
- Materials For Drawing
- Models Measurements Proportions
- Outlines For Beginners
- Paper Folding Cutting
- Pen And Ink Drawing
- Principles Of Composition
- Simple Story Pictures
- Solid Black Effects
- Stimulating Imagination
- Tracing Transferring
- Two Handed Exercises