The Ornamental Draughtsman and Designer Volume 1; Being a Series of Practical Instructions and Examples of FreeHand Drawing in Outline and from the ... to Practice; Together with a Series of baixar o livro de graça

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1892 Excerpt: ...ornament itself is considered, or rather its details. In the Assyrian anthemion the number of lobes or leaves is always seven--three on each side of the central lobe b--while the three lobes c c are joined as in the sketch fig. 4, not separated, as at b b in fig. 3. The lobes also in springing rise from a disc a, and not from a husk, as at a a in fig. 3. And each lobe is cut up or ornamented by the lines shown, which is called the water-mark. In fig. 5 we give another form of the Greek anthemion or honeysuckle ornament. In this the lobes a a do not spring from a husk, as at a a in fig. 3, but from b b, the Fig. 5. central point, c, between which terminates with a point as that of a leaf. The student must take special note of the principle here involved, inasmuch as it applies to the whole work of ornamental drawing of outline subjects. "What is here true of the simple subject, as illustrated, is equally true of all subjects, however complicated. This important principle the student will find exemplified in any ornamental drawing correctly done he pleases to examine, but for the younger of our readers we have illustrated it by the foregoing sketch, fig. 3. A more detailed drawing of this will be found in its proper place in the companion work entitled " The Ornamental Draughtsman." In the simple sketch given in fig. 2 the young student will see how, if lines were incorrectly drawn, in place of flowing into the main line they might shoot off if produced or lengthened in some direction at any point, as shown, say at the dotted line a in the sketch. If he will also look amongst the subjects illustrating "The Ornamental Draughtsman" for that study in which the Greek scroll is first given, he will find this importance of harmony of lines ...