Drafting

Much of This Drafting is Before Computers with Pen and Ink

In 1963 We Did it with Pelican “T” ink and expensive blue tracing paper. The lettering was usually done with Leroy Lettering equipment, but this was by hand. I am glad those days are over with. Today you just move a line if it is not quite right; then you often had to start over.
This was part of a restoration project for an old LLOYD’S HYGRODEIK instrument.
The Old Fashioned Way; No computer here.
More the Old Way; Some Vertebrate Heart
The Top of the Tree of Life; All Ink and Leroy Lettering
The Trunk of the Tree of Life
The Way We Were, Roots of the Tree of Life; All Ink and Leroy
Rendering Using Ink and Wax Pencils
Rendering Using Ink and Wax Pencils
Rendering Using Ink and Wax Pencils
Cross Section of K-2 Urban; Ink and Leroy Lettering with an Articulated Paper Mannequin Overlay
Ink and Leroy
Ink and Leroy
Ink and Leroy with Press-On Film
Ink and Leroy with Press-On Film

From here on down the drawings are all done with a computer of some sort. I am very happy that the old drafting technology has gone to the museum. My productivity went way up and the level of anxiety went decidedly down when I first started using the computer. Drawing on the computer is fun for the small and the large jobs. I hope computer programs will soon be available for oil painting and watercolor.