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The text describes the subtle differences between male and female bodies, emphasizing the adjustments needed when drawing different parts from youth to adulthood. It advises on techniques for drawing such as using charcoal and precise lines, detailing the process to ensure shadows and lights are accurately depicted. The importance of maintaining delicate textures and ensuring they fade smoothly into light is also emphasized.

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The First Part

Chapter XXVIII

Finally, there is little difference between the bodies of men and women, especially those from youth etc.

And described here with patience, the masses when the homologues are not yet grown etc.

As a variety goes from young to old, I will treat this more amply in a second part etc.

Moving forward, a woman's body does not have much variety, only that the portrayal would be softer and adapting to men, making things wider, with the abdomen more elevated and rounded, and this will indicate to the babies etc.

Before marking everything with charcoal and drawing clean lines, and before drawing with the pen, take a clean pen, a piece of cane, and carefully mark the lines with charcoal. If the line from the pen does not smudge, etc.

Before cutting and needing to mark the places of shadow and light, and marking the need to touch, draw a little thicker in the darker places, this is done with a thicker pen cut, pulling the initial straighter lines precisely so they all become touched. When the ink is well applied, it is necessary to make second lines, touching the golden pen harder, and preserving a very smooth pen for some parts. The others should be cut underneath without doming and bipper which make strength like others, and thus everything will see the day. It is important your textures are delicate, they must exert their effort but must fade smoothly into the light.