This is really a remarkable book in which _line is made a good reason
for form_. The youngest child may grasp the magic progress of this way
of working and he will draw the picture naturally and well.
INSTRUCTIONS are very brief, for _the key lines_ of each object tell
their own story and the child is entranced by the results soon gained.
There is no stupid tracing in this book, for tracing accomplishes at
most only a little muscular control.
The book provides a step-by-step system that _fixes_ the object in
memory and develops naturally as a physical skill and a mental knowledge
of proportion and form.
Foreshortening and perspective, often bugbears to young artists, are
overcome by the simplest progressive examples.
REMEMBERING THE KEY LINE opens the way to the completed object. There
are hundreds of pictures to draw and all those most fascinating to the
child, who is thrilled by the “magic” that makes drawing easy and
delightfully interesting.
“_Just remember the KEY LINE, that’s all._”
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