Bang!…Mechanical drawings
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17 Aug Bang!…Mechanical drawings

Posted at 18:51h in Drawing by

A friend of mine who is doing his own drawing trial, was curious what my drawings would like with a more technical theme. Challenge accepted! I have a deep admiration for people who have the patience to use a ruler and compass and draw insanely accurate drawings. I do not anymore. I like graph paper, that’s about it. I took out my rapidograph to do the gun, only to remember how much I hate the darn thing and how drawing a smooth straight line with it was not happening – it’s probably clogged somewhere, or the tip is toast, cause the lines are a mess. I was also bored. I feel like Illustrator was invented because someone like me was failing at manually drawing gears 🙂 It would be so easy now to go and vectorize the gun drawing to be accurate and sharp.

I did find cross sections particularly interesting, and enjoyed seeing how things were shaded and crosshatched to represent different surfaces. I ended up quickly reviewing “Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught” a very comprehensive guide at Project Gutenberg, a nice resource for online books.

So after this week I don’t think I’ll be spending much time on themes I do not like.