SUGGESTIONS.
In a drawing that presents a pleasing aspect to the eye much is left to the suggestion and to the imagination of the observer. For instance, in drawing the stones in a stone wall it is only necessary, as a usual thing, to suggest a few of the stones. In the same manner, a few bricks are all that need be indicated in a brick house to show that it is a brick house. A few leaves, sometimes, in the foreground of a drawing contain all the detail of that sort that is required to indicate the foreground foliage.
By pictorial means, we suggest or indicate things, some of which have neither form, quality, visible appearance, or in fact, any physical manifestation whatever.
By means of lines, aided by association of ideas, we are able to symbolize the intangible. In time the symbolic definition of an object becomes as familiar, or nearly so, as the material meaning. Thus, the anchor is the symbol of Hope; the key of Knowledge; the owl of Wisdom.
Here are a few symbolic objects that make good subjects for school room exercises:
Learning represented by the Justice, represented by scales or
lamp. sword, or both together.
Bondage, represented by shackles. Dove, peace.
Time, represented by the hour Dog (bull), watchfulness,
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