Fig. 13.—Sketch to memorize for smoke picture.
Fig. 14.—Completed smoke picture.
Before commencing on the actual drawing, memorize a suitable subject, such as a stretch of water gleaming under the moon, with light reflections, as in [Fig. 13]. The effect of the finished picture may now be obtained by wiping out the black so that the white enamel shows through and forms the lights. The removal of the black may be accomplished either with the fingers or by means of a soft piece of rag. In view of the fact that the fingers form a better medium for drawing than does the rag the use of the former is recommended, but as the cartoonist may have arranged to follow this part of his entertainment with other drawings on white paper, he would do well, while dealing with the smoked surface to cover his finger-tips with stalls cut from old kid gloves. These can be discarded without the necessity for a break in the performance, as would be the case were the fingers blackened in the process. [Fig. 14] shows the finished smoke picture produced from the sketch in [Fig. 13].
A. Blue. B. Brown. C. Green. D. Dark green.
Fig. 15.—A reversible scene.
Fig. 16.—Initial sketch for “house on the cliff” drawing.