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what you can (though not to your liking) confer it by
the like, some excellent print or patterne of the same,
using no rule or compasse at all but your own iudge-
ment in mending euery fault lightly, and with a quick
hand, giuing euery place his due; whereby you shall
of all fides meet with your errors and find an incre-
dible furtherance to your practice: though hereunto
is required I must confesse, a strong imagination and
a good memory, which are the midwives to this arte
and practice as in all things els the nurse that brings
it to the ful growth and perfection.

Of drawing the face or countenance
of a man.

CHAP. 7.

Ince man is the worthiest of all crea-
tures, and such pleasing variety in
countenances so diffused of by the
diuine prouidence, that among ten
thousand you shall not see one like
another ( as well for breeding de-
light, as for obferuing a methode after you haue pra-
ticed according to your former directions in other
things) you shall begin to draw a mans face, in which
as in al other creatures you muft take your beginning
at the forehead, and so draw downward till you haue
finished.

The full face.

The visage or countenance is (for the most part)
drawn but three manner of waies, the first is full fa-
ced, as commonly we see King Henry the third drawne;
the

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The second is 3 quarter faced, as our Flanders and
ordinarie pictures are, that is when one part of the
face is hid by a quarter as thus:

The 3 quar-
ter face.

The third is onlie halfe faced, as you see the pictures
of Philip and Mary vpon a twelue pence.
Halfe face.

Halfe face.

For draught of a full face you must beare in memory
and narrowlie obferue the breadth of the fore head,
and the compasse of both the cheekes, all which are
compoed of two lines as thus :

And be careful to giue as precife an euenesse to one
fide as to the other; caufing both your lines to meete
at the tip of the chin: your diameter guideth you for

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Of Shadowing.

That you might better vnderstand what I meane
in this last chapter by so manie kinds of shadowes, I
will ere I go farther shew you what they be, with their
feuerall vles.

The firſt is a ſingle ſhadow, and the leaſt of all other,
and is proper to the plaine Superſicies where it is
not wholelie poſſeſed of the light, as for example :

I draw a fowr ſquare
fhaddowe, becauſe
low, but all plain (as
cipatinge with the
naturall and agreea-
die.

plate thus, that
there is no hol
neereſt parti-
light) is moſt
ble to that bo-

The double
shadow.

The ſecond is the double ſhadow, and it is vſed when

the Superficies
forſake your eie
ceiue beſt in a
where it beeing
it preſenteth to
were) the back-
vnſhaddowed to
treble ſhaddowe
ſing ouer your
againe, which
third part in this

begins once to
as you may per-
column as thus:
darkned double,
your eie ( as it
ſide, leauing that
the light. Your
is made by croſ-
double ſhadowe
darkeneth by a
manner, as fol-
loweth.

It

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It is vſed for
ſhadow and
the light, as
chinks of the
caues within
whe you ima-
in at a doore,
vnder the bel-
of beaſtes to
nesor darknes
ty wood, that

nulli penetrabilis aftro:consequently in al places where
the light is beaten foorth, as your reaſon will teache
you.

the inmoſte
fartheſt from
in gulſſes,
earth, wells,
houſes ( as
gine to look
or window)
lies & flanks
ſhow the thik
of a mygh-
it may ſeem

Generall rules for ſhadowing.

You muſt alwaies caſt you ſhadow one way, that
is, on which ſide of the body you begin your ſhadow,
you muſt continue it till your worke be done: as if I
would draw a man, I begin to ſhadow his left cheeke,
the left part of his neck, the left ſide of the left arme,
the left ſide of the left thigh, &c: leauing the other to
the light, except the light ſide be darkned by the op-
poſition of an other body, as if three bowles ſhould
ſtand togither, that in the midſt muſt receiue a ſha-
dow on both ſides.

2. All circular and round bodies that receiue a
concentration of the light, as the light of a burning
glaffe, when it dooth gather it ſelfe into a ſmall
center, muſt bee ſhadowed in circular manner as

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thus:

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thus: All per-
do receive no
therefore hee
that in the trâf
our Sauiour in
not gaue his
deep shadow,
king to shewe
hee gaue the
lighte it selfe a

which ought to haue beene moft glorious, and all
means vfed for their luftre and brightnes, which hath
been excellently well obferued ot Stradane, and Gol-
Zins. Where contrary shadowes concur and ftriume (as
thofe croffe winds about Aeneas his fhip) for ſuperio-
rity, let the neareft and moft folide body bee firſt fer-
ued. In the double and treble ſhadows, let your firſt
ſtrokes be very dry for fear of blotting, ere you croſſe
them.

It will seeme a hard matter to ſhadowe a gemme
or well pointed Diamond, that hath many fides
and ſquares, and to giue the luſtre, where it ought:
but if you remember and obferue the right vle of
your ſhadowes giuing the light to the lightwarde,
which I haue taught you, you ſhall eafily do it of your
ſelfe.

A merry left of two Painters.

VV Hileft I lay in Huntingdon, there grew a quar-
rel between two painters, the one a ſtraun-
ger and a Soiourner, the other dwelling in the
towne

fecte lightes
ſhadow at all,
did abfurdly,
figuration of
the mounte
garmentes a
but alſo thin-
greate Art,
beams of the
deeper, both

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towne, the ground whereof was a ſecret
aemulation betweene them (as commonly falleth
out among tradesmen of one profession) which
burſt out ſo farre, that at length one challenged to
paint with the other for a wager of 20 nobles; the
picture which ſhould be drawn (becaufe the ſtra-
ger had already made and fold many) was the picture
of Chriſt, and my ſelfe choſen iudge of the workmA-
ſhip: great aduice and deliberation was taken on
both ſides (Now the painter of the towne to ſhow (as
he thought) extraordinary art in ſhadowing, had
laid with charcoal in a deepe blew the cheeks and
eies of his picture) at the laft, the worke beeing fini-
ſhed, and both ready to heare my verdict; Newman
the ſtranger who was the better workman ſo ſoon as
he ſaw his aduerſaries worke, God forgiue me (quoth
hee) heers a picture with a witnes, it looks as if it had
been beaten black and blew: and I pray you ( quoth
the other) was not Chriſt buffeted, whereat certain
gentlemen preſent, and my ſelfe took ſo good an oc-
eafion of laughter (hee ſpeaking it in an honeſt ſim-
plicity to ſaue him ſelfe ) that wee could do no leſſe
then make them both ſrinds giuing them their mony
again; & thus much of ſhadowing.

Offore-shortning.

CHAP. 9.

FOrefortning is when by art the whole is conclu-
ded into one part, which onely appeareth to the
fight; as if I should paint a ſhip vp the fea, yet there

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