'>>7146016
Why do you give away this secret pencil sharpening :'(

Anyway, 3nj0y Br0: https://lalaragimov.blogspot.com/2013/11/treatises.html

She has a few articles where she peek through those to understand specific issues, like how different authors viewed hatching.

It's good stuff anon, but it can be a distraction from actually practicing. Even if you don't have le secret sharpening technique, you can still control your values well and make master pieces.';

'>>7146037
>https://lalaragimov.blogspot.com/2013/11/treatises.html
Gracias, Amigo';

'Hey old art instruction books are my specialty!
This one from 17th century is one of my favourites. The text is in Italian, Dutch, French, and German, but it's mostly images.

Get it here:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/k7t1tc7uv190wht/La_prima-%255Bquinta%255D_parte_della_l_-_Passe%252C_Crispijn_van_de%252C_d._1670.pdf/file';

'>>7146242
This is awesome bro, exactly the type of thing I'm looking for. Strange to think how Bridgman may have come up with the format of his books based on these old 16th century books that he probably studied as a student at the Ecole';

'>>7146242
>>7146270
Sooo, where are your studies of said books anons? :wink:';

'This is not to discourage you, but please not most writings by old masters are the most useless stuff, they were painters, not writers, and did not leave good information behind.';

'highly recommend picrel
learns a lot, but most importantly, I learned how to study effectively';

'>>7146242
this is great, thanks anon. got any more in French? if not, no worries.';

'>>7146016
>Guptill

https://youtu.be/3XwXguUCIo8?si=CQIwpKDDmD8KdFYF';

'How about art from an ancient book?

This was from the yearbook of a woman's college in the 1920s';

'>>7147945
> https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17502/pg17502-images.html
Looks good, but from a quick look, Guptill's is more complete

>>7148305
My goodness. It's like, love for a nerd';

'>>7146016
I think I had some stuff saved, going to check right now';

'>>7148308
I have a feeling the “willies” didn’t demand and complain as much';

'>>7146016
i have some on my list, but cannot vouch of their quality. A lot of very old books are to be found in archive.org

pawell2418.github.io/library.html?tags=~old';

'>>7148458
Merci

I found a couple I was interested in on your list on Archive. Here is Solomon J Solomon on oil painting https://archive.org/details/practiceoilpain00sologoog/page/n49/mode/2up
Here is Pacheco on la pintura (español)
https://ia600104.us.archive.org/30/items/artedelapinturas00pach/artedelapinturas00pach.pdf';

'>>7148371
And it confirms that the world has hated freshmen for a very long time.

https://youtu.be/ICdwBBqkQRU?si=GK07dIxFwLPnHgSa';

'>>7148308
Hoes mad when me, a freshman bluejay collegiate af driving past them in my struggle buggy and not stopping before smashing some willie gash after a parlor sleep sesh';

'>>7148844
This fella right here is the real McCoy!';

'bump';

'>>7148513
nice';

'>>7146016
How do I sharpen my pencil like this?';

'>>7154308
picrel is from his work "Drawing and Sketching in Pencil." I have a physical copy of his "Rendering in Pencil" which consolidates the information in the former and also another work of his on pencil drawing. In Rendering he says the following:
>Types of Points
>2. A second type is a blunt or broad point shown at 2, Fig. 8 [i.e., the point shown in OP]. In making this, the wood only is first cut away, a fairly long lead of full circumference being exposed (except in the brittle, softest degrees). With the pencil then held in normal drawing position (B), the point is rubbed on the sandpaper until quite blunt, after which the end of the lead is smoothed by means of a few strokes on paper. This point will make either a broad or a fine stroke, depending on whether the pencil is held in its normal drawing position as at B, or inverted as at C...';

'>>7154318
So he cuts away the wood only on the pencil until its exposed like in pic A, then uses sand paper to blunt the edge like in B.';

'>>7154325
>like in pic A
note that A is already sharpened. yes you first just cut some of the wood off, but if you were using a new pencil you would get something like in picrel (which doesn't have to be as long as picrel, and Guptill recommends softer pencils have less graphite exposed, as they are more likely to break). then you grind it down with sandpaper to get B and can use the wide or fine side as desired.';

'>>7154331
What kind of knife do you use to cut pencils?';

'>>7154349
in Rendering, Guptill shows a sharp knife in his illustrations of materials and how to sharpen a pencil but also mentions a razor blade as an alternative. personally, I have just used a razor blade which has worked well (enough for my liking). I am right-handed, so I stabilize the blade by holding the right side with my thumb and index finger and rest the sharp point of the blade at an angle on the paint of the pencil - the sharp side of the blade is facting the top of the pencil. I push only with my left thumb on the left side of the blade and try not to cut at too sharp of an angle (i.e., closer to 45 degrees than 90) otherwise I'm more likely to chip the graphite right away.';

'>>7154365
e.g.:';

'Cesar Santos made two videos about this book, from 1765 written by the painter Thomas Bardwell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_52sLXd3sk0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGwQ_rc6fUQ

Link: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=gri.ark:/13960/t8nc9nw2k&seq=1';

'>>7154664
Correction: the first edition is from 1756.';

'>>7146016
Where's the pdf for this book?';

'>>7155072
>Sketching and Rendering in Pencil
I found a pdf version on archive.org, though there are epub versions on zlibrary too.';