Eye Measurements
Measurement Exercise. As the pupil progresses, greater accuracy in eye-measurement will become apparent. This can be hastened by frequent practice exclusively in this direction.
A good plan is for the teacher to draw straight lines of various determined lengths, requiring pupils to bisect, trisect
and quadrisect them at regular intervals. Thus, draw a line four inches long to be divided in half. Then the same line in three equal divisions; then into four equal divisions.
Proportion
Proportion, and What Is Meant by Out of Proportion.
For example: If a picture of a man were drawn with the head twice as long as the head should be, as is shown in Fig. i, Chap. 19, that would be called out of proportion, because it would be unnatural.
It should be in "good proportion' which means it should be near the natural size as compared with other parts of the body. The ability to draw the figure in proper proportion requires considerable practice, close observation and accurate eye-measurement.
Varying Proportions. In drawing the head of a child, the same proportions as adults does not exist; the child's head being larger in proportion to the body than in the case of adults. There are also further variations. Putting a very small head on the body of a child would make the drawing appear as much out of proportion as in the case of the over-large head referred to. In caricature, lapses from true proportion are permitted. Then it is done purposely to produce a ludicrous effect.
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