Abbreviated Drawing Styles (Ryakuga shiki 略画式 (人物) (Figures)
Abbreviated Drawing Styles is a Japanese sketchbook of figure studies by Kitao Masayoshi, published in Japan in 1795 as a how-to manual for quick, simplified brushwork. The pages are spreads of small ink figures, with many labourers, scholars and household scenes arranged loosely across the paper. A designer could take from them the economy of gesture: a few confident strokes that capture a pose, posture or activity, along with the open, scattered page layouts.
