A practical manual of wood engraving : with a brief account of the history of the art (1886)
Brown, William Norman · London : C. Lockwood and Co. · leaf 58
WOOD ENGRAVING. 44 work from the inside, leaving the outside till the last. The next subject I should advise would be a complete outline in which thick and thin lines will denote the light and shade. Figs. 22 and 23 will afford good subjects. Before proceeding to cut, after having transferred the… … Fig. 22. — Outline Subject. cover up the block with thin blue paper, as before directed, making an opening of about an inch at the top, so increasing as the work pro- ceeds, and taking all precautions not to bruise the lines with the belly of the tools. In engrav- ing it is well to bear in mind…
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