How long does it take to read Practical Course in Memory Drawing?
Practical Course in Memory Drawing by Edwin George Lutz takes about 3 hours 54 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 54 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1936. 213 pages, about 58,575 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 31 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 54 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
From dustjacket: Mr. Lutz offers here a system of memory drawing that may be followed successfully by the individual in self-study as well as have its lessons adapted for the classroom. The primary purpose of this book, says the author, is to teach memory drawing and to help the art student to work from imagination. Mr. Lutz states that even though it is the general custom for the artist to work from models he should have some skill in drawing imaginative pictures without the necessity of looking for actual scenes for backgrounds to his pictures. A diversity of subjects is treated and the way to draw them from memory explained in clear and simple terms. Among these subjects are Landscapes and Views, the Draped Female Figure, Faces and the Human Figure. There is a division devoted to Ornamental forms and motifs and one to the study of various kinds of solids which will be of special interest to workers in arts and crafts. Several chapters have been given to drawing figures from "imagination" by which the author means the memory of knowledge gained by the analytical study of the human form by the methods advanced in the book. The particulars are presented in clear terms and illustrated by diagrams. In these diagrams the figure has been reduced to the simplest anatomical planes, and interpreted in forms that make elementary structures for the draftsman when he wishes to block-out a figure. This section of the book forms a notable contribution to the field of art education where it applies especially to the drawing of the human form.
Subjects: Human figure in art, Study and teaching, Drawing
