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of rightness.  In other words, a credible projection of the image not an imitation based on verisimilitude.  The character of the drawing is modified by the spirit and taste of a period, that particular aspect of an object or subject that is to be employed, and it expresses the artists conception modified by the circumstances governing his immediate extention [[extension]].  So the same artists will draw differently [[strikethrough]] when he prepare [[/strikethrough]] under varying circumstances.  Various kinds of painting concept call for a different drawing concept. 

Michael Angelo who was tremendously influenced by Titian as a painter failed to understand Titian the draughtsman.  His Florentine tradition in drawing, without the consideration of free color prevented him from seeing that Titian's drawing was determined by that artists color conception.  It was a certain critic discussing Delacroix, who was