{"id":39355,"date":"2020-04-30T12:12:57","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/?p=39355"},"modified":"2020-04-30T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:24:07","slug":"a-lesson-in-the-art-of-drawing-taking-the-line-for-a-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2020\/04\/a-lesson-in-the-art-of-drawing-taking-the-line-for-a-walk.html","title":{"rendered":"A Lesson in the Art of Drawing: ‘Taking the Line for a Walk’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Daumier & Am\u00e9lie<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The point of the exercise is to wean the young artist off result-oriented copying from photos. \u2018Taking the line for a walk\u2019 lets the drawing come about in the process of drawing. The idea is to reduce line to tonal value as opposed to a fixed continuous outline that wraps around the form like a piece of copper wire. The reason is that light on any object will obviously break the outline (contour). The exercise of copying the Daumier is to work with different values of ink and proceed as one would with a sketch. \u2014 GB<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sketch by Daumier..<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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13-year-old Am\u00e9lie’s copy of the Daumier sketch.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The point of the exercise is to wean the young artist off result-oriented copying from photos. \u2018Taking the line for a walk\u2019 lets the drawing come about in the process of drawing. The idea is to reduce line to tonal value as opposed to a fixed continuous outline that wraps around the form like a piece of copper wire. The reason is that light on any object will obviously break the outline (contour). The exercise of copying a Daumier sketch is to work with different values of ink and proceed as one would with a sketch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,4,23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-art","8":"category-main","9":"category-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/amelies-copy-of-daumier-brdr640.jpeg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-aeL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39355"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39377,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39355\/revisions\/39377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}