[split] Jorge's Retracer Thread: darker ink, retracing of text and drawings

[Jorge_Stolfi]

I would like to see what the original version of that nymph looked like.

Well, here is my guess:
       

There is just no way you can make it look like a normal drawing of a human being.

Well, that can be said of most most nymphs in the VMS... 

Note that the actual drawing of that nymph is only ~18 mm tall.   About 1/3 of the size you see on your computer screen.

The proposed original above has the features of many other nymphs, including the two other nymphs in that group:

• The outline of the left breast is just a deviation of the torso outline
  
• Only one arm and shoulder are visible
  

What is a bit unusual is that the nymph is rather quite well on the plump side.  But that is the case even if we take the other trace as being the outline of the torso.

The face is one part I am unsure about.  It is quite possible that the original had a smaller chin, about where the mouth is now.  Note that the original nose was a bit shorter than the current one.  Maybe the Retracer mistook the mouth for the bottom of the nose, and the chin for the mouth...

All the best, --stolfi