CHAPTER X.
COMPARISON OF PROCESSES.
The method of drawing in line referred to in the two preceding chapters may be regarded as traditional and of the normal character, and we shall next take under consideration various other methods of drawing equally suitable for reproduction by line process.
In the meantime, we will see how the processes for producing blocks in relief may be applied and see by a few examples how the results compare.
With the artist, the Swelled Gelatine process will probably rank as first favourite, and this because it is less exacting in its requirements.
Although only rendering the drawing in black and white, it is certainly more sympathetic, and does to some extent recognise the weaker impression of a grey line. By this process many ordinary black and white drawings, made without any regard for the demands of the process man, reproduce well, but would be impossible by the cheaper zinc etching; moreover, it is admirably suited to reproduce drawings in which a mixture of pen and pencil has been employed, an example of which will be given later.
MOONLIGHT.