The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey: With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction — John Shaqi
The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey: With Brief Descriptions of Processes of ReproductionRidgway, John L.
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The Preparation of Illustrations for Reports of the United States Geological Survey: With Brief Descriptions of Processes of Reproduction
Ridgway, John L.
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For relief shading on small black and white maps Ross's hand-stipple
drawing paper may be used. (See p. 24.) By rubbing a black wax crayon
or pencil over the surface of the paper the desired effect is produced
in fine dots or in stipple, which may be varied in density of shade at
the will of the draftsman. (See fig. 6, C.) High lights can be
produced by scraping away the chalky surface of the paper. A
lithographic or wax crayon is the best medium to use on this stipple
paper, as on the paper referred to in the preceding paragraph, for the
shading produced by it is not so easily smeared as that produced in
pastel or by a graphite pencil. The object of using either the rough
paper or Boss's stipple paper for drawings that are to be reproduced
by photo-engraving is to produce a shading that is broken up into dots
of varying sizes, which is essential in such reproduction.
Belief shading for maps can also be made with a brush in flat washes
of either india ink or lampblack. Such shading should be made only
over a blue print or an impression of some kind from the map upon
which the shading or relief is to be overprinted. If the relief is
expressed on the author's original by contours the general shapes of
the relief and the drainage lines can be traced and transferred
lightly in blue lines to form a base on which to model the shading and
at the same time to make the shading fit the streams. Such a drawing
can be photographed through a screen and reproduced by half tone (see
fig. 6, D) or mezzotint as a separate plate made to overprint the map
in another color.
HYDROGRAPHY.
_General directions._--The drainage features of a map should be so
drawn as to suggest the natural courses of the streams. Streams should
not be drawn in straight, hard lines, as such lines are decidedly
unnatural and produce a crude effect. The course of a river may be
straight in general, but it is likely to be somewhat sinuous in
detail. If the streams shown on a preliminary map are drawn in a
clumsy or characterless fashion they should be redrawn with a freehand
effect or made slightly wavy, in order that they may appear more
natural. The gradual widening of streams from source to mouth should
also be shown in the drawing. On small-scale maps, where the eye can
at once see a stream through its full length, this almost
imperceptible widening can be expressed by a line of almost uniform
weight except for the stretch near the source, where it should grow
thinner and taper off. On maps which are to be reproduced directly
from drawings in black and white and which are to show both contour
lines and drainage the lines representing the streams and other water
bodies should generally be drawn freehand and slightly heavier than
the contour lines, which should be sharper and more precise.
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