Drawing Pen

Drawing play pen
Early drawing pens were made similar to forceps, with a screw to adjust the distance of the two legs which held the indian ink. I remember the sentence when the two legs even had to be smooth with a honing stone to undo the waering from the very harsh paper. For my affair drawing I excessively had a double pen (for streets) and a free wheeling pen for altitude curves (isohypses).
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The pen at this drawing fountain pen could easily be exchanged for writing with types for narrow and abundant lines.
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This was my set of pens for a number of years...
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[pic]Drawing gameboard
The most common drawing board for engineers and also for illustrators used a checkograms to keep the rulers parallel to itself. The detail get a line shows the head of the machine: The rulers could be exchanged according to the desired outstrip; they could also be rotated in 15 item steps or fixed at an arbitrary angle.
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For wide drawing boards (especially used in the ship industy) the parallelogram mechanism was replaced by a horizontal rail on top with a t- substantial on roller barings holding the drawing head.




[pic]Square and T-square
Amateurs and students most time are confined to simple forms of a drawing board with a t-square to draw horizontal lines (the board was not square enough to allow for verticals also). Angles in steps of 15 degrees claim 2 squares with 90-45-45 degrees and 90-60-30 degrees.
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For the desktop A2 and A3 sized drawing tablets became available with a combination of t-square and protractor. I still have an A3 sized in use.
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[pic]Ruler
For working on the desk a ruler is still a handy tool. Most time it is combined with a 1:1 scale with tic marks at every mm. For typographic purpose also rulers with pica, points etc. are still in use.
Convenient tools on the desk are parallel moving rulers. champion type has (rubber coated) rollers to guide the movement. Another type connects two parallel half-rulers with two legs forming a...If you want to get a full essay, commit it on our website: Orderessay



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