On Jun 14, 8:59*pm, Larry Jaques
wrote:


Someone told me that in college
that the engineering students and the art students were on completely
different parts of campus. That it was like 2 different worlds. *Having
examined the drawing books for myself, I understand that facts all that
much better now... * *: )

Indeed. *Engineering students are concerned with function while art
students are concerned only with form, to the exclusion of function.


A lot of people seem to have trouble with this. In high school I was
pretty artistic and everyone thought I should go into drafting. I had
some mechanical design interest too, but unrelated to art.

Art and drafting are very loosely related. An excellent draftsman
does not need to be artistic - drafting is the language of engineering
and the precise definition of objects. With that said, some guys I
knew who were artistic by nature could produce some very nice
engineering drawings. They just looked better.

RonB