Excerpt from The Ornamental Draughtsman and Designer: Being a Series of Practical Instructions and Examples of Freehand Drawing in Outline and From the Round, Examples of Design in the Various Styles of Ornament Adapted to Practice; Together With a Series of Practical Papers on Form and Colour, as Applied To The art of delineating representations of the varied and ever varying objects which external Nature presents, as for example in the foliage of the tree or the petal of the flower, in giving place to the designs in the first instance, or of. Copies or representations of objects already made of what are generically designated as artistic, and finally in showing the various combinations of lines, curved and straight - the only two classes of lines in decorative design - has always occupied a high place in the routine of what is generally known as an artistic education. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.