Hand machine drawing.

[frank rabbets]

I thought members, especially young ones, may like to imagine how one could draw by hand. The picture below is from my Dads drawing textbooks dated 1911. The begining of the books teaches you how to draw plain numbers and letters. By the end of the book you should be able to draw and colour the following by hand.

 

[StarCruiser]

I have a whole bookcase of mainly electrical and engineering textbooks up to the 1930s with many such drawings in them. They are a joy and a window on another world where they weren't afraid to explain in great detail why and how things worked and were made.

 

[stumog]

I have recently had to put something together for illustrations in a manual which is done by hand. I thought these days would have been done by computer

 

[mettisse]

I thought members, especially young ones, may like to imagine how one could draw by hand. The picture below is from my Dads drawing textbooks dated 1911. The begining of the books teaches you how to draw plain numbers and letters. By the end of the book you should be able to draw and colour the following by hand.View attachment 133154

Love this type of illustrations, I could quite happily have it framed as a decorative item and have it on the wall, I know my wife thinks I'm a Fred Dibna wannabe, (complete with cap and dungarees) but these pictures are works of art, thanks for the reminder , Bill Westley

 

[nick_the_fish]

When I did my engineering degree we did engineering drawing as well as CAD. Its was cool to do it and to keep the skills alive, although I may be bias as I love to draw anyway. Not sure if they still teach it, but I hope so. Theres nothing like spending hours on a technical drawing only to realise you've made a mistake and need to start all over again.

Of course, I didn't manage anything like that......

 

[Ben Stratford]

My first job was in a drawing office Frank. I spent the first week just writing the alphabet hundreds of times!!

 

[stumog]

I would love some of the drawings we have on the wall.

Shame we can't take copies

 

[clivehorridge]

My only experience of doing technical drawings was in school, at GCE A level. I passed grade B, but we never did anything as artistic as that Frank.

We did sections and all elevations, but they were only flat projections, with no relief.

That's a beautiful drawing and saved to my photo library, have you any objection to me trying to print it?

Love it. Thanks for posting...

 

[Bob]

The work of a master draftsman is something to behold. I spent a time making maps for a living and while most of it was computerised, I did have the odd chance to hand draw some for displays. Still love old hand drawn maps, and those engineering drawings are beautiful.

 

[chapel gate]

Fantastic, and equally sad, as a reminder of what we were once capable of..

 

[Towpack]

I've no idea how long it took someone to produce a drawing of such detail and quality but I'm guessing it was measured in days, not to mention the years of training and practise that went beforehand. Such detail and quality is still available of course but now it's done by a machine in minutes or even seconds maybe, brought about by man's insatiable lust for speed, be it speed of production, process, travel etc..etc. The age where we can build a machine to do many a man's job and do it better and faster has been around for a while. It's just progress. IMO, artwork like that is worth far more than some abstract oil painting that looks like it's been done by a toddler in nursery school but is valued by the 'experts' in £millions.

 

[frank rabbets]

No objection Clive to anyone copying.

 

[clivehorridge]

No objection Clive to anyone copying.

Cheers Frank, wouldn't want to go upsetting anyone...