It's Impossible To Make A Picture Without

You Can't Do A Fine Thing Without Having Seen Fine Examples.

Let Me Give You A Few Simple Rules For Learning To Draw. First, See Of What Shape The Whole Thing Is. Next, Put In The Line That Marks The Movement Of The Whole. Don't Have More Than One Movement In A Figure; You Can't Patch Parts Together. Simple Lines; Then Simple Values. Establish The Fact Of The Whole. Is It Square, Oblong, Cube, Or What Is It?

How Are Things Visible? Can You See An Egg Against A White Background? Not By Drawing A Line Around It Can You Make It Evident.

There Is Force And Vitality In A First Sketch From Life Which The After-work Rarely Has. You Want A Picture To Seize You As Forcibly As If A Man Had Seized You By The Shoulder! It Should Impress You Like Reality!

Strive For Simplicity! Don't Have The Face A Checkerboard Of Tints! Use Such Colors As Nature Uses, But Not Try To Keep Them Distinct! Your Work May Be Called Monotonous, But One Tone Is Better Than Many Which Do Not Harmonize.