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    Free Hand Drawing and Designing
    Free Hand Drawing and Designing
    Free Hand Drawing and Designing
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    Free Hand Drawing and Designing

    By Max Kushlan

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    This is a fantastic guide to freehand drawing and drafting written by Max Kushlan. Profusely illustrated and highly accessible, "Free Hand Drawing and Designing" will be of considerable utility to modern readers with an interest in technical drawing and illustration, and it would make for a worthy addition to collections of related literature. Contents include: "Straight Lines", "Curved Lines", "Geometrical Bodies", "Perspective Drawing", "Technical Illustrations", "Technical Sketching", and "Engineering Drawing". Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on technical drawing and drafting.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWhite Press
    Release dateSep 21, 2017
    ISBN9781473341678
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      Free Hand Drawing and Designing - Max Kushlan

      CHAPTER I.

      One of the greatest requirements of the modern engineer is to be able to make rapid neat sketches freehand, i. e. without the use of any drafting instruments, but simply by employing a well sharpened soft pencil and an eraser. There are many cases in the daily practice of every engineer from the lowest to the highest ranks, when they are called upon to make a free-hand sketch of a job, and in some cases this rough sketch remains later the only available record of the condition of the job before any changes took place. It is therefore important to have such sketches done as neatly and accurately as possible so that they would convey the correct idea to the draftsman or to the man who is to carry out the particular work represented by such sketches.

      There are two principal kinds of sketches employed in describing engineering work: the actual picture of the job, as it appears to the eye; and the orthographic projection of the object in the three principal planes, but drawn roughly without the aid of instruments and not to correct scale. We will endeavor in the following chapters to cover the principles of both types of sketching, beginning with the simplest objects first and then leading up to the free-hand drawing of more or less complicated parts of machinery. The text will be amply illustrated by suitable figures which are the actual reproduction of a complete course in free-hand drawing given in one of the leading technical schools in this country, and the readers are advised to follow up the exercises in the order suggested in this course, so as to get the full benefit of the work. Each figure must be thoroughly mastered before the next one is attempted as they gradually lead from one to the other.

      PLATE 1.

      Fig. 1

      Fig. 2

      Fig. 3

      Fig. 4 - Equal Division of Line

      Fig. 5 - Proportional Division of Line

      The first thing to learn about free-hand drawing is the correct method of looking at things. The eye must be trained to observe the size, shape and position of an object and its relation to the other objects around it. We must also be able to estimate distances and angles, not necessarily their correct values, but as they appear to our eye, which is usually out of proportion with the actual dimensions of the object. Before we learn to use the pencil we must therefore first learn to use our eyes and get the general habit of observation. It is a good plan to exercise in estimating sizes and distances of various simple objects such as tables, windows, books, wheels, etc. and then check these estimates with the correct dimensions as found by the foot-rule. It is surprising how such simple exercises help to train the eye until the student can tell the size and distance of an object within a small fraction of the actual

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