Category: Art

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.

Diagrams: Of Herkomer pine trees— No. 1 . . . 60 No. 2 . . . 61 Of Grasset ornament— Nos. 3 and 4 . . . 64 Practice blocks for wood-engraving, Nos. 1 and 2 . . . 232 No. 3 . . . 233

Chapters

1. CHAPTER I.

2. CHAPTER X.

3. CHAPTER XI.

4. CHAPTER XIII.

5. CHAPTER VIII.

6. CHAPTER X.

Diagrams: Of Herkomer pine trees— No. 1 . . . 60 No. 2 . . . 61 Of Grasset ornament— Nos. 3 and 4 . . . 64 Practice blocks for wood-engraving, Nos. 1 and 2 . . . 232 No. 3 . . ....

7. CHAPTER I.

INTRODUCTORY — DESIGNING OF VALUE TO THE PRINTER — NATURAL ABILITY VERSUS INSTRUCTION — SMALL DESIGNS AS DIFFICULT AS LARGE — READER NOT TO BE DISCOURAGED BECAUSE HE CANNOT BE A...

8. CHAPTER III.

HIEROGLYPHIC DESIGNS OR SILHOUETTES — THEIR USE AS TYPOGRAPHICAL ORNAMENTS — OBJECTS SEEN AS ON ONE PLANE — PLACING YOUR OBJECT — HORIZONTAL LINES PARALLEL TO THE EYE — HORIZONT...

9. CHAPTER IV.

POWER OF OUTLINE — SHADED DRAWINGS — TEXTURE — LOCAL COLOR AND VALUES — THROWN SHADOW AND MODELING SHADOW — MANNERISMS OF A CARICATURIST — BEGINNER ADVISED TO USE OUTLINE ONLY,...

10. CHAPTER XIV.

A CHAPTER OF ILLUSTRATIONS AND A RÉSUMÉ — VALLOTTON HEADS ONLY UNDERSTOOD BY THOSE WHO CAN SEE LIGHT AND SHADE UPON OBJECTS — MEDALLIONS BY DAVID D’ANGERS SHOWING THE PLANES OF...

11. Chapter XI. By comparing this with the cut on page 102 we notice that

the drawing is so simple that there is very little difference in the general aspect of the two, but here and there, as under the jaw, the lines have run together a little more i...

12. CHAPTER I.

INSTRUCTION IN DRAWING ABANDONED AND DESIGN CONSIDERED — THIS INSTRUCTION LESS ABSOLUTE THAN INSTRUCTION IN DRAWING — THE PRINTER TO USE AS MUCH OF THE SUBSEQUENT MATTER AS SERV...

13. CHAPTER III.

SOME MISCELLANEOUS ILLUSTRATIONS APPROPRIATE FOR DIFFERENT PURPOSES — THE RIVOIRE APPROPRIATE WHERE EXPENDITURE IS UNLIMITED — HALF-TONES USED FOR NEWS-GIVING OR INFORMATION-GIV...

14. Chapter I, attempted to copy some font, and that, not following any

special method, he found it pretty tedious work: that he then read Chapters II, III and IV, and found, with the help of our information about the Latin capitals in a square, and...

15. CHAPTER VIII.

SUMMARY OF METHOD OF INSTRUCTION GIVEN — PRELIMINARY “PLACING” OF LINES IN A SKETCH — THE RELATION OF A SILHOUETTE TO AN OUTLINE — DRAWING IN OUTLINE, IN SILHOUETTE, WITH PARTIA...