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. - Ernest Knaufft

INITIAL LETTER BY MARCHETTI. Pen drawing from Paris Illustré.

study of pen technic is helpful to the printer-designer. I use the adjective “judicious” because I need a word beginning with J for our initial letter. What I mean is, that just so far as the printer studies drawing, he may study pen technic, but he must not expect to progress further in the latter than he has progressed in the former; so while this chapter will be exceedingly helpful to the reader who has followed the previous ones, it will only lead to failure

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ILLUSTRATION TO PABLO DE SEGOVIE. Pen drawing by Daniel Vierge, one of the most celebrated of modern pen-draftsmen. If you will scrutinize this drawing under a magnifying glass you can examine this technic with more ease than with the naked eye. [see larger]

{123} if the reader does not follow our advice in regard to training the eyes to see as well as in regard to pen technic.

We said in our last chapter that the parallel lines in the background of “The Grandmother,” by Renard, showed the foundation of pen drawing. The same is

Illustration (pen drawing);
chapter heading, but without
initial letter, by Marchetti.
From Paris Illustré.