GROUPING OF OBJECTS TO DRAW GREAT ART COMPOSITIONS : How to Draw & Arrange Groups of Objects for Pictorial Compositions

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Freehand Drawing — Grouping or Composition.

Grouping is the art of arranging objects in a pleasing manner. A row or a mere collection of objects is not a group in pictorial composition. The objects represented should be arranged with reference to one principal object to which the others are accessory, and they should be placed so that the eye may take in the whole group at once.

As two solids can not occupy the same space at the same time, care should be taken, in the drawing of a group of objects standing at the same level, that the bases, if wholly represented, do not interfere.

Example of grouping with special attention to the idea that no two solids can occupy the same space at the same time." The objects selected to make the group show this point admirably, the cup allowing the eye to calculate the distance between the bases of the two associated objects.

The table line is a part of the composition of the picture drawn from a group of objects. In the elementary stages of the work, it can be presented concretely by caning the attention to the farther edge of the surface on which the group rests. In the more advanced work, however, it seems well to lead to the location of the table line by calling the attention to the general points of the drawing ; the general character of the objects as to size, apparent solidity, etc. ; the arrangement of the objects, etc. ; and the distance of the objects below the eye; and by asking the pupils to locate the table line in a way to secure a pleasing pictorial effect.