A Figured Face
Another diversion may be caused by drawing at lightning speed a figured face. How this is to be accomplished is not at first apparent when you sketch in to all intents and purposes at random a few detached numerals, such as appear in [Fig. 7]; but the addition of extra figures produces the very expressive countenance depicted in [Fig. 8].
Fig. 7.—Figured face partly finished.
Fig. 8.—Figured face complete.
A deal of fun may also be extracted from outline representations of an egg. Commence by sketching in with quick strokes three or four of these. Fill in the individual expression of each by such series of lines as are suggested in [Figs. 9] and [10], and as a climax pin to each a suitable paper costume or fancy collar, frill, or tie, as shown in [Figs. 11] and [12]. These latter aids to the equipment of the lightning cartoonist must be prepared beforehand from colored tissue paper, kept behind the easel, and instantaneously fixed on to the large sheet of cartridge paper by means of pins. The effect will be both novel and grotesque.
Fig. 9.—A cheerful “eggspression.”
Fig. 10.—A mournful “eggspression.”
Fig. 11.—Egg drawing complete.
Fig. 12.—Egg drawing complete.