A Practical Hand-Book of Drawing for Modern Methods of Reproduction (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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What is wanted in the aspirant is the vocation the feeling for beauty of line and for decoration, and the powers both of idealizing and of selection. Pen-draw ing and allied methods are the chiefest (means of illustration at this day, and these qualities are essential to their successful employ. Practitioners in pen-and-ink are already numerous enough to give any-new-comer pausebefore he adds himself to their number, but certainly the greater number of them are merely journalists without sense of style; mannerists only of a peculiarly vicious parasitic type.

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