On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 07:16:43 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet
wrote:

On 6/13/2011 11:40 PM, Bill wrote:
Larry Jaques wrote:



I will distinguish here between "a sketch", "a formal design document
drawing",and "art". My interests also do not extend into color thus far.

Learning how to draw formal design documents will help you with your
sketching. Your pencil will automatically know where to go to start.

I believe you, but it seems like one should make several sketches before
drawing a formal design document. One of the things I noticed in
browsing what I could of the book Architectural Graphics were the
mention of different *types* of drawings. That seems to me like what is
missing from, or could complement, a typical sketch that I might make.


Actually you start off with simple mechanical drawings, drafting is a
very strict style of drawing with lots of tricks and rules.
We never sketched anything in preparation of drawing what would be the
finished drawing. The drawing required preparation so that it would be
centered properly on the sheet of paper. Basically you started with
determining the over all size of the object being drawn and that gave
you a starting point for each view. I don't recall the formula but
there was on used to center isometric drawings on the sheet.

Yes, that might be better for him.
http://goo.gl/5Bg8I fi dollah, delivered.
From the Seventies, before things got hosed in schools.


And as Larry has indicated once you have done a load of those properly
structured drawings, sketching free hand seems to come naturally. You
develope a very keen eye for things that stick out in a tool assisted
mechanical drawing which dont look right. You find your self comparing
lines that should be parallel or perpendicular. As you start sketching
you do the same thing and quickly make corrections as you sketch those
lines.

Right, you learn how things are supposed to look from whatever
perspective, and then sketch them in an emulation of the more formal
drawing.

--
To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.
-- Chinese Proverb