Technically he was not strong as a draughtsman or a brushman, but he had a large feeling for form, great simplicity in line, keen perception of the relations of light and dark, and at times an excellent color-sense.
Lefebvre (1834-) is probably the most pronounced in academic methods among the present men, a draughtsman of ability.
He is a good draughtsman and a rather rich colorist, but in brush-work somewhat labored, stippled, and unique in dryness.
More of a draughtsman than a colorist, he was angular in figure and drapery, but had honesty, pathos, and sincerity, and was very charming in bright background landscapes.
Elihu Vedder (1836-) is more of a draughtsman than a brushman.
He was a draughtsman and threw his strength in line, producing athletic, square-shouldered figures in violent action, with complicated foreshortenings quite astonishing.
The fixed idea of the draughtsman was to show all the sides of his object at a glance, to exhibit details which in reality were partly hidden by each other.
Our draughtsmanhas not thought it necessary to reproduce the hieroglyphs engraved upon the plinth.
He was not a savant; he was an intelligent and faithful draughtsman and his artistic nature enabled him to appreciate, even better than the illustrious founder of egyptology, the singular charm of an art free from convention and routine.
Our draughtsman at Boulak had no time to finish the drawing he had begun, and we have reproduced it in its actual condition rather than omit it or have it completed in any degree conjecturally.
But even in the black and white of ourdraughtsman the excellent taste which animated the Egyptian jeweller may be fairly estimated.
The Egyptian draughtsman was prepared for the execution of such a task by education and the traditions of his art, and his eye seems to have been trustworthy.
The curious inequality of this little trefoil is not a mistake; it is faithfully copied by the draughtsman from the MS.
In general, the effort is most successful when it is most naive, and when the ignorance of the draughtsman is in some frank proportion to his innocence.
Finally, the draughtsman in full possession of a feeling for the corporeity of the object will determine his contour entirely from within, a procedure which is the exact opposite to that of his first beginnings.
Now the draughtsman employs various intensities of his monochrome as light and shade by which to give roundness to his forms.
But if the master draughtsman gives the true character of his model's form, why is it that his drawings are not pleasing to all alike?
If then the draughtsman does not, and cannot hope to imitate nature, he is compelled to state only his ideas of it, ideas of three-dimensional form.
If the end of drawing were to approach imitation or illusion as nearly as possible, how is it that a mere "sketch" by a master draughtsman can be for itself as valuable as his highly finished drawing?
When the witty or ethical man is at the same time a master draughtsman his work has two values, the "literary" content and the beauty of his drawing of natural objects.
Unless the draughtsman has seen some such clear forms in his original, his labour to produce a work of art will be grievous and fruitless.
If Pharaoh wants to have it known that a hundred ducks were consumed at one meal in his court, he employs a draughtsman to register the fact on a frieze by picturing a row of cooks occupied in preparing the hundred ducks.
The only difference between a good draughtsman and a bad one is the degree of subtlety of his apprehension.
It is said that this or that draughtsman excels in "beauty of line.
Accordingly as a draughtsman feels form so will he draw it, and it is only because our sense apparatuses are more or less similarly constituted that we can understand and appreciate one another's conceptions.
They would have a draughtsmandraw "in the style of Holbein," but not "in the style" of Rembrandt.
The only individuality a draughtsman can show directly by his drawing is his individual way of conceiving the forms of nature, and even this is immaterial provided the conception and drawing be good.
She was owned by the renowned pilot Juan de la Cosa of Santoña, who sailed with Columbus on both his first and second voyages, and was the best draughtsman in Spain.
As he was both draughtsman and mariner, we feel safe in affirming that the caravels drawn in said letter of the illustrious mariner form the most authentic document in regard to the vessels of his time that is in existence.
Benincasa, whose beautiful Portolani may still be seen at the British Museum, and in other collections, was in the height of his fame as a draughtsman at Genoa during the youth of Columbus; so was Pareto.
I cannot say I believe in inherited talent, but the fact that the elder Leech was said to be a remarkable draughtsman seems to strengthen the theory held by some people.
Prospect Place, Newington Butts, where he began business as a mechanical draughtsman and manufacturer of small machinery requiring first-class workmanship.
Though the first drawing he had ever made, he handed it back to Nicholson instead of the original, and at first the draughtsman did not recognise that the drawing was not his own.
It was at this time that he engaged Mr. Clement as draughtsman and mechanic to embody his ideas in a working machine.
In the Daily Mail I saw once an interview with an inferior American black-and-white draughtsman at Berlin.
He is a superb draughtsman and our only caricaturist.
The primitive draughtsman and the child are recording impressions received in the course of the locomotion either of the thing looked at or of the spectator.
Thus when a Byzantine draughtsman puts his figures in what look to us as superposed tiers, he is merely trying to convey their existence behind one another on a common level.
Dorothy is now a successful artist, and Lawrence is, at the age of eighteen, a professional draughtsman of mechanical subjects; my youngest is just out of his teens.
Mr. Pettie was a vigorous draughtsman and a beautiful colourist, and many of his portraits are very fine.
This confession of one of my "chosen familiars" I have the pluck to reprint, as an answer to those unknown strangers who so frequently write me down as "a conventional comic draughtsman of funny ill-drawn little figures.
Holbein is par excellence thedraughtsman of skeletons.
This distinguishes Busch from Adolf Oberlander (1845), who became the chief draughtsman on Fliegende Blatter.
Mitchell, a clever draughtsman as well as an original writer.
We are therefore unable to decide whether Layard's draughtsman has accurately represented its condition or not.
Desor, who soon followed him to America; and Mr. Jacques Burkhardt, who had preceded them all, and was now draughtsman in chief to the whole party.
In this department, no draughtsman I can call to mind has ever shown greater fertility of invention, so much playful fancy, so much grace, so much kindly humour, and such a sane and wholesome spirit of fun.
That their apparently naïve grotesques are from the hand of a very practised draughtsman is evident at a first glance; but as their author prefers to remain anonymous his identity must not be revealed.
The way he has turned a prosaic hat-rack into an instrument of torture would alone mark Mr. Sambourne as a comic draughtsman of the highest type.
The idea of a draughtsman of note setting himself deliberately to please a child would have been inconceivable not so many years ago.
However, in another sense the draughtsman indirectly helped the cause of scientific accuracy in what, for want of a better expression, may be called word-painting.
This attitude of the artist to his work, which is so different from that of the scientific draughtsman of the present day, is seen with great clearness in many of the drawings in mediaeval manuscripts.
The draughtsman and engraver not only disseminated the knowledge of plants, but their work must often have revealed to the botanist features which had escaped his less highly educated and subtle eye.
These drawings are somewhat of the nature of diagrams by a draughtsman "who generalized his knowledge of the object.
All that the draughtsman has to do, is to indicate by blue pencil lines those parts on which he requires the dots, which give the half-tone, to be placed, and to select the pattern of the stipple he desires to be used.
In fact, an artist or draughtsman who has a thorough knowledge of the process and its capabilities can obtain extraordinary results.
The shading employed was either done by the draughtsman (at ch and in the cells with irregularly arranged dots), or else was put on the block during its manufacture (af).
Another advantage in drawing directly upon the transfer paper is that the draughtsman can make corrections pretty easily for, if needs be, a bad piece of work can be entirely cut out and a fresh piece of paper inserted.
This drawing on a large scale is often a stumbling block, because the work appears too open and the draughtsman is tempted to put in too much; this must be avoided, else the crowded lines may join together in the reduced reproduction.
Or again, notice how a skilful draughtsman will patch up by a number of small strokes any imperfect portion of a curve he is drawing, and we have another like instance of this selective faculty of the eye or of the mind.
Set a practised and an unpractised draughtsman to draw a circle, and we may witness how differently they go to work.
His father is the best draughtsman in Scotland, and the lad himself shows a great deal of talent both in science and the ordinary branches of learning.
Nature denied me correctness of eye and neatness of hand, yet I was very desirous to be a draughtsman at least, and laboured harder to attain that point than at any other in my recollection, to which I did not make some approaches.
And, even in early glass, thin paint was used, whether to subdue crude colour or to indicate what little shading a 13th-century draughtsman might desire.
As a composer and draughtsman Giusto compares unfavourably with the better-known painters of Flanders; though his portraits are good, his ideal figures are not remarkable for elevation of type or for subtlety of character and expression.
The second or Middle period of Gothic glass marks a stage between the work of the Early Gothic artist who thought out his design as glazing, and that of the later draughtsman who conceived it as something to be painted.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "draughtsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: designer; draughtsman; piece
