To tell this is now your business

To tell this is now your business; and the shape of the forehead, the form of the eyes, the line of the nose, and character of the mouth —each studied with care—will help to make the head a likeness, a personality.

But much besides the mere drawing of individual features contributes to this. The interior modeling, the high lights, half tones, and emphatic darks, the arch of the brow, the energetic or calm lines about the nose and mouth, the squareness or curve of the chin, are all elements in the interpretation of the likeness which must not escape the student. The color of the eyes, irrespective of the pupil, may be now indicated; also the depth of color in the mouth, which varies much with age or physical condition; do not suggest it any stronger in color than it appears under the conditions of the light in which the model is placed. In all that you do try to prove, by the result, that you have referred constantly to nature for the effects recorded. This, more than anything else, will be noted to your credit when you come to submit your work to the criticism of the expert, the painter whose own portrait work has gained him reputation Tor truth.