Dixon’s V. H. pencil.
12-inch boxwood scale, flat, graduated ¹⁄₁₆ inch the entire length.
Bottle of liquid India ink, four thumb-tacks, pen and ink eraser.
20 sheets drawing paper, 11 × 15 inches, and a drawing-board about 16 ×
23 inches will also be necessary; students can usually make the board
themselves for less money than it can be bought.
NOTE.--The purchasing of drawing tools is one of the most difficult
points to settle that can present itself to a person about to buy a
drawing outfit for the first time. Nothing can be so productive of
distress to a person drawing as to have his tools getting out of
order, joints one day too tight, next day too slack, points getting
blunt or perhaps turning up altogether; if needle points, then the
needles slip up, and drawing spoiled; in fact, the purchaser can be
annoyed in numberless different ways.--W. H. THORN.
[Illustration: Fig. 139.]
[Illustration: Fig. 140.]