Drawing for Printers. / A practical treatise on the art of designing and illustrating in connection with typography. Containing complete instruction, fully illustrated, concerning the art of drawing, for the beginner as well as the more advanced student.

by Ernest Knaufft

FIG. A. Examples of French Art School studies, from plates published under the direction of Bargue and Gérôme, showing method of blocking in a cast, both its outline and its shading.

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FIG. B. Method of shading in simple tones, with very little reflected light or half-tones. (See Fig. A.)

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Portraits, drawn in crayon, by Fantin-La-Tour, from his painting in the Salon of 1879. An example of the rendering of “values” in black and white.

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We give another illustration that we trust will interest you, the very beautiful drawing by Fantin-La-Tour. Our object in giving this is twofold: first, to show you the drawing of the cast. We have said that the Bargue-Gérôme studies show how students learn to work in Paris. The truth is that nearly all over the world art students learn to draw from white plaster casts on which the shadows are very distinct. The eye is thus trained to see form, as we call it. And it will not be difficult for you to look from the cast drawing in the La-Tour to the head of the standing girl, and see how the form of her face is brought out by shading in the same manner as in the cast.