21st July 2013, 08:05 AM
Once checked two drawings by different people of the same area (training). One looked gorgeous, clean neat lines etc the other was scruffy . The scruffy one was actually a great interpretation and pretty accurate the neat one was wrong in ooh so many ways but visually you would have thought it was the better drawing. Taught me an important lesson.
Also spent nearly two weeks drawing every brick in acres of floors of industrial buildings (because I was told to). not as daft as it might seem as the buildings had been temporary wooden structures the floors were the only permenant bits and showed patterns of wear and the location of different processes. The act of looking and understanding what was seen was vital taking photographs would not have been enough.
Where does the school of Jack stand on the use of gridded paper under the perma trace as a guide? personally I hate it, a grid printed on the perma trace is one thing a bit of very stretchy paper is another. I always use a scale rule (unless provided with grided perma trace) and demonstrate to people the variances in the grid on a bit of graph paper. And no it does not take longer using a scale rule. Use of the right materials and tools and knowing why to use them is vital.
Also spent nearly two weeks drawing every brick in acres of floors of industrial buildings (because I was told to). not as daft as it might seem as the buildings had been temporary wooden structures the floors were the only permenant bits and showed patterns of wear and the location of different processes. The act of looking and understanding what was seen was vital taking photographs would not have been enough.
Where does the school of Jack stand on the use of gridded paper under the perma trace as a guide? personally I hate it, a grid printed on the perma trace is one thing a bit of very stretchy paper is another. I always use a scale rule (unless provided with grided perma trace) and demonstrate to people the variances in the grid on a bit of graph paper. And no it does not take longer using a scale rule. Use of the right materials and tools and knowing why to use them is vital.