A Handbook of Illustration

CHAPTER III.--THEORY AND PRINCIPLES OF ILLUSTRATION.--Different kinds of illustration--Maps or plans--Scientific diagrams--Topographical views--In fiction--Author and Illustrator--Pictorial or artistic--Decorative--The "Two things."

CHAPTER IV.--REPRODUCTION BY HALF-TONE PROCESS.--Processes other than photo-mechanical--The object of mechanical process--Intaglio, relief, and separate printing process--Description of half-tone process--The screen--Printing on the gelatine--Development--Etching--Inherent disadvantage of the screen--Cutting out lights--Comparative results.

CHAPTER V.--PREPARATION OF ORIGINALS FOR REPRODUCTION BY HALF-TONE.--I.--Photograms--The best kind of Photograms for reproduction--Negative and print--Legitimate hand work--Relieving the shadows--Helping the high light and shadows--Application of photograms--"Stopping out"--Backgrounds not essential--Composition and arrangement--Decorative initials, &c.

CHAPTER VI.--PREPARATION OF ORIGINALS FOR HALF-TONE. II.--Wash drawings, oil paintings, pencil and other drawings--Character of wash drawing or grey surface--Monochrome oil painting--Painting on a photographic basis--Mixed drawings--Pencil drawings--Coloured sketches for illustration--Thin reproduction.

CHAPTER VII.--LINE PROCESS.--Requirements of the process--The processes described: Gelatine, Albumen, and Bitumen--Copying, printing, developing, mounting--Description of the copy negative--Reduction--Diminishing glasses--Pencil marks, &c.--Non-photographic methods.

CHAPTER VIII.--METHODS OF LINE REPRODUCTION. I.--Pen-and-ink drawing--Character of line drawings--"Tone" interpreted into line--Various styles of line--Suggestion of colour, textures, &c.--The art of leaving out--What to copy and study--Line shading--Flat tints--Outlines--Reduction and thickening.

CHAPTER IX.--MATERIALS FOR SIMPLE LINE DRAWING.--Papers and cardboards--Inks and fluids--Pens.

CHAPTER X.--COMPARISON OF LINE PROCESSES.--Some characteristics of each described, and results in each compared--The roulette.

CHAPTER XI.--OTHER METHODS FOR LINE REPRODUCTION. The Materials Required.--Mechanical tints--Their application--"Splatter" work--How produced--Grained clay surface boards or "scrape" boards--Their use described--Pencil and chalk drawing for line reproduction.

CHAPTER XII.--MECHANICAL AIDS TO DRAWING.--Methods of tracing from a photogram--Drawing on a photogram--Drawing on a "blue" print--Tracing on transfer paper--Drawing from nature--Conclusion.