Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot, adjust your volume, take a nice deep breath in, let it out slowly, and off we go.

This evening we're relaxing with a book about art,

the practice and Science of Drawing by Harold Speed, Associate of the National Society of

Bozards, Paris, member of the Royal Society of Bozards, Paris,

member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, etc.

With 93 illustrations and diagrams.

Published by Seeley Service and Co. limited.

38 Great Russell Street, London, 1913.

Let's begin.

Preface. Permit me in the first place to anticipate the disappointment of any student who

opens this book with the idea of finding wrinkles on how to draw faces, trees, clouds, or whatnot,

shortcuts to excellence in drawing, or any of the tricks so popular with the drawing masters

of our grandmothers, and still dearly loved by a large number of people.

No good can come of such methods, for there are no shortcuts to excellence, but help of a very practical kind, it is the aim of the following pages to give.

Although it may be necessary to make a greater call upon the intelligence of the students than these Victorian methods attempted.

It was not until some time after having passed through the course of training in two of our chief schools of art that the author got any idea of what drawing really meant.

What was taught was the faithful copying of a series of objects,

beginning with the simplest forms, such as cubes, cones, cylinders, etc.

An excellent system to begin with, at present in danger of some neglect, after which more complicated objects in

plaster of Paris were attempted, and, copies of the human head and figure posed in suspended animation

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