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 Naturally some people are more easy to draw than others. Those with marked characteristics are the easiest of all. If you have any choice in the matter, choose some one with striking features, the drawing of which you cannot miss. Take your subtle and more delicate studies later. When I was a child I was very fond of copying photographs of celebrities from papers and magazines&mdash;not such a bad method of training the eye and hand in the curious ways of catching a likeness. And I remember copying a charming profile of a certain little princess (her daughter is now as old as the picture to which I refer), and her Royal Highness's ear was of a prodigious size. If some one looked at the drawing without recognizing the subject I would say indignantly, "Oh, but you must see how it is by the ear!" That I knew to be right. I was quite annoyed when a friend said with an air of surprise, "But I have never noticed the Princess's ear was so large; surely you are mistaken."

You must be prepared for that sort of criticism. If you make it your business to observe things that are out of the way, you are certain to meet with such remarks.

It is not only with eyes, nose, ears, mouth, expression that