Drafting Final

The Orders:
Micron pen, Mylar

In these next pictures you can see some of the process that went into creating the final project for our drafting class. It is the most detailed drawing I have worked on yet and took a considerable amount of time, but I was happy with how it turned out. This drawing is traced on Mylar sheet. It is a copy from a bookplate on classical orders. My column was the Doric column.

Initially I worked in the horizontal only. We were given 3 different size range of micron pens to work with. I did my initially drawing in the smallest size I had, and saved the larger pens for when the work was almost finished to shade, the under drawing.

After I completed most of the horizontal lines, I laid out the outline of many crucial aspects of the drawing. This was important, because as you get into shading you start to lose track of what is where, and it helps to see the outline.

Here you can see how many lines there are. using the smaller pens exclusively takes much longer but allows for more detail.

One part of the picture that gave me the most trouble was the curved cross hatch lines. I tried using a french curve, but they never matched up exactly. Then I tried using an elliptical template sheet, but if you moved it without waiting for a while for each line the template would smudge the ink. The most practical way would end up being to have to do it by hand, but by this point it was hard to see the under drawing. Luckily there was a light box in the class I was able to use. The I drew in the curved lines by hand. After I got used to it, it was not so bad, though on closer inspection it does become obvious some were hand drawn.

Here is the final product