HOW TO DRAW PORTRAITS & NUDES

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HOW TO DRAW PORTRAITS & NUDES

Lessons in Drawing
by a Traditional Artist and Teacher
of the 19th & 20th century

Associé de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris;
Member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, &c.

With 93 Illustrations & Diagrams

We are pleased to to present these traditional lessons, theory and
artworks in a 21st century electronic format.
Copyright 2006 - All Rights Reserved

CONTENTS
PREFACE
I - INTRODUCTION
II - DRAWING
III - VISION
IV - LINE DRAWING
V - MASS DRAWING
VI - THE ACADEMIC AND CONVENTIONAL
VII - THE STUDY OF DRAWING
IX - MASS DRAWING: PRACTICAL
X - RHYTHM
XI - RHYTHM: VARIETY OF LINE
XII - RHYTHM: UNITY OF LINE
XIII - VARIETY OF MASS
XIV - UNITY OF MASS
XV - BALANCE
XVI - RHYTHM: PROPORTION
XVII - PORTRAIT DRAWING
XVIII - THE VISUAL MEMORY
XIX - PROCEDURE
XX - MATERIALS
XXI - CONCLUSION
APPENDIX

PICTURE INDEX

Picture 1: SET OF FOUR IMAGES OF SAME STUDY IN DIFFERENT STAGES
Picture 2: DRAWING BY LEONARDO DA VINCI
Picture 3: STUDY FOR "APRIL"
Picture 4: STUDY OF FIGURE OF BOREAS
Picture 5: FROM A STUDY BY BOTTICELLI
Picture 6: STUDY IN NATURAL RED CHALK BY ALFRED STEPHENS
Picture 7: STUDY FOR THE FIGURE OF APOLLO
Picture 8: STUDY FOR A PICTURE
Picture 9: STUDY BY WATTEAU
Picture 10: FIFTEENTH-CENTURY CHINESE WORK BY LUI LIANG
Picture 11: LOS MENENAS. BY VELAZQUEZ (PRADO)
Picture 12: STUDY ATTRIBUTED TO MICHAELANGELO
Picture 13: STUDY BY DEGAS (LUXEMBOURG)
Picture 14: UNACADEMIC DRAWING IN RED CHALK
Picture 15: FROM A PENCIL DRAWING BY INGRES
Picture 16: STUDY BY RUBENS
Picture 17: DRAWING OF THE GOLDSMITHS COLLEGE SCHOOL OF ART
Picture 18: STUDY ILLUSTRATING METHOD OF DRAWING
Picture 19: STUDY ILLUSTRATING CURVED LINKS
Picture 20: STUDY FOR THE FIGURE OF LOVE
Picture 21: ILLUSTRATING A TREATMENT OF HAIR IN LINE WORK.
Picture 22 & 23 FOUR PHOTOS OF SAME PAINTING IN DIFFERENT STAGES
Picture 24: TYPICAL BRUSH STROKES
Picture 25 to 28: 4 PHOTOS OF SAME STUDY IN DIFFERENT STAGES
Picture 29: A STUDY FOR A PICTURE OF "ROSALIND AND ORLANDO"
Picture 30: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM BLAKE'S "JOB" (PLATES I., V., X., XXI.)
Picture 31: ILLUSTRATIONS FROM BLAKE'S "JOB" (PLATES II., XI., XVIII., XIV.)
Picture 32: FÊTE CHAMPÊTRE. GIORGIONI (LOUVRE)
Picture 33: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE. TITIAN
Picture 34: LOVE AND DEATH. BY G.F. WATTS
Picture 35: THE SURRENDER OF BREDA VELAZQUEZ (PRADO)
Picture 36: THE BIRTH OF VENUS.
Picture 37: THE RAPE OF EUROPA. BY PAOLO VERONESE (VENICE)
Picture 38: BATTLE OF ST. EGIDIO. PAOLO UCCELLO (NATIONAL GALLERY)
Picture 39: THE ASCENSION OF CHRIST
Picture 40: THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST
Picture 41: PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST'S DAUGHTER
Picture 42: MONTE SOLARO CAPRI
Picture 43: PART OF THE SURRENDER OF BREDA. BY VELAZQUEZ
Picture 44: CORREGGIO. VENUS. MERCURY, AND CUPID
Picture 45: OLYMPIA. MANET (Louvre)
Picture 46: L'EMBARQUEMENT POUR CYTHÈRE. WATTEAU (LOUVRE)
Picture 47: THE ANSIDEI MADONNA. BY RAPHAEL (NATIONAL GALLERY)
Picture 48: THE FINDING OF THE BODY OF ST. MARK
Picture 49: FROM A DRAWING IN RED CHALK BY HOLBEIN
Picture 50: SIR CHARLES DILKE, BART.
Picture 51: JOHN REDMOND, M.P.
Picture 52: THE LADY AUDLEY. HOLBEIN (WINDSOR)
Picture 53: STUDY ON BROWN PAPER IN BLACK AND WHITE CONTÉ CHALK
Picture 54: STUDY FROM A SILVER-POINT DRAWING
Picture 55: STUDY IN PEN & INK & WASH FOR TREE IN "THE BOAR HUNT"

DIAGRAM INDEX

Diagram 1: TYPE OF FIRST DRAWING MADE BY CHILDREN
Diagram 2: SHOWING WHERE SQUARENESSES MAY BE LOOKED FOR IN THE NEXT DRAWING
Illustration 3: A DEVICE FOR OBSERVING APPEARANCES
Illustration 4: SHOWING THREE PRINCIPLES OF CONSTRUCTION
Illustration 5: CONE ILLUSTRATING PRINCIPLES OF LIGHT AND SHADE
Illustration 6: ILLUSTRATION OF EYES
Illustration 7: ILLUSTRATING
Illustration 8: ILLUSTRATING
Illustration 9: Diagram XII. A, B, C
Illustration 10: Diagram XIII.ILLUSTRATING
Illustration 11: ILLUSTRATING POWER OF CURVED LINES
Illustration 12: ILLUSTRATING POWER OF CURVED LINES
Illustration 13: ILLUSTRATING THE FLOW OF LINES
Illustration 14: ILLUSTRATING SOME OF THE MAIN LINES
Illustration 15: SHOWING THE CLASH OF LINES
Illustration 16: SHOWING HOW LINES UNRELATED CAN BE BROUGHT INTO HARMONY