Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit: The Hokusai Drawing Style (Denshin gafu Hokusai gashiki)
Picture Album Transmitting the Spirit is a Japanese woodblock instruction book of 1819 by Katsushika Hokusai, offering model drawings for artists and students. Its pages are paired spreads of black-line landscapes, figures, birds and plants printed on pale paper. A designer can take from them the economy of single contour lines, the open white space around small figures, and the way trees, rocks and clouds are reduced to repeated marks.
