I’m really looking forward to running the new ‘Intro to Hand Drafting’ course at LFS next week (13-18 September)! No matter how much digital technology encroaches on our world, the fundamental ability to communicate through drawing will always be essential. Eye/brain/pencil coordination is the best way to work out a set or scenery detail and the skills can still be transferred to a digital medium.
We’ll be going back to basics with the emphasis on line weights, annotations, working out elevations and refreshing geometric rules. Building up the techniques and getting comfortable with the equipment is the best way to move forward. Once confident with the process, the focus will be on how to approach a set design and understanding the information required to be communicated at each stage of the process.
The course will be pre-dominantly practical with participants spending most of their time drawing…. obviously!! All equipment is provided and we will work in both metric and imperial scales. There’ll be examples of drawings from major film projects plus plenty of reference material to dip into. It’s going to be fun!