human
He speaks as an artist who has taken to illustration seriously and most successfully, having devoted the best years of his life to its development. The moral of it is, that in whatever material or style newspaper illustrations are done, to hold their own they must be of the best. Let them be as slight as you please, if they be original and good. In line work (the best and surest for the processes) photography can only be the servant of the artist, not the competitor--and in this direction there is much employment to be looked for. At present the influence is very much the other way; we are casting off--ungratefully it would seem--the experience of the lifetime of the wood engraver, and are setting in its place an art half developed, half studied, full of crudities and discords. The illustrations which succeed in books and newspapers, succeed for the most part from sheer ability on the part of the artist; _they are full of ability_, but, as a rule, are bad examples for students to copy.
gpt
Time is money with these brilliant executants; they have no time to study the value of a line, nor the requirements of the processes, and so a number of drawings are handed to the photo-engravers--which are often quite unfitted for mechanical reproduction--to be produced literally in a few hours. It is an age of vivacity, daring originality, and reckless achievement in illustration.
human
Take it up, look at it, and throw it down, is the order of the day. There is no reason but an economic one why the work done