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according" to the vanishing point opposite to
your eye. You will naturally seek to possess
your mindwith tl1e special character of the figure
before you;-and of all the Grecian figures,
I would advise you to make from the Apollo
and Venus a general measurement or standard
for
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and woman,
taking
the
head
and
its
features, as the part by which
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" Light and shade must not be neglected ; for
what you eH'ect_in drawing by the contour of the
figure,
light
and
shade
must
effect
with
the
projections of those parts which front you in
the figure. Light, and shade there produce
What becomes outline to another drawing of the
same object in a. right angle to the place where
you sit.
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It seems
not
impossible
to
reduce
to
the
simplicity of rule or principle, what may have
appeared difficult in this branch of art to young
students, and may have been too often pursued
at random by others. All forms in nature, both
animate
and
inanimate,
partake
of
the
round
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