Lines representing portions of the background or unimportant detail should be drawn with lighter and less accented strokes.
Accented lines can be taught profitably at the outset almost. Their use produces facility and strength in handling. The invariable use of unaccented lines is more or less offending, even to the uneducated eye.
In the upper drawing the lines are even, monotonous. In the lower one accentuation is evident. Which is the more pleasing to the eye?
Figs. II, 12, 13 and 14. Fig. 11 is the beginning of the finished sketch, Fig. 12; while Fig 13 is the beginning of the finished sketch. Fig. 14. When drawing Fig. 12, the pupil finished the foreground first, which looked strong at the time. Nevertheless, when the background was put in, with its tones similar to the foreground, the latter appeared weak. Fig. 13 shows the beginning of the other sketch, Fig. 14, In this
drawing the background was finished first and the foreground last. As a result, the foreground stands out strongly in contrast to the background. Whenever the background is put in first the impulse is to place strength in the foreground. By doing so an arrangement of strongly contrasting light and dark tones is more apt to be produced, giving to the sketch the ever desired effect of power and value.
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