The Art of Hand Drafting - Project 2
Introduction
Drafting is one of the most important skills you will need to master as an Interior Designer.  Drafted documents help communicate your ideas to many people who will help you get your designs realized.  Contractors, builders, specifiers and your clients will see the working drawings you produce.  Often your working drawings will act as a contract between you and the other entities involved in the building process.  Therefore, mastering important skills like neat, precise line work and producing accurate and appropriate graphic symbols used in the industry will assure clear communication. The techniques we will learn throughout this project are vital to your ability to create quality drafted documents.
The Art of Hand Drafting
“So, if neatness is so important, won’t the computer do that for me?”  It is important to remember that the computer is only a tool, and it is only as good as the person using it.  In the beginning of this program, we will spend time learning about hand drafting to gain a better understanding of how page layout, a variety of line weights, and proper placement of elements are all used to help us create clear communication in our working drawings.  It also teaches you how to create elegance and how to bring a “human touch” into your CAD drawings when you move to the computer.
Objectives
- To learn graphic symbols utilized in the Interior Design profession
- Begin mastering hand drafting techniques
- Broaden your understanding of page layout
- Continue to develop title block layout
- Begin learning about drawing in different scales
- Continue to hone hand lettering skills
- Learn the difference between plan and elevation drawing
Project Criteria   
Using your drafting equipment, lay out sheets of 11” x 17” vellum to create a beginning-drafting booklet.  Cut the sheets from your 18” x 24” vellum tablets using your measuring tools, metal straightedges and a hobby knife, or you can use the cutter in the Print Center during staffed hours (only).  Situate the pages in a landscape format, and include the information listed below on individual pages:
Title page
a title page with appropriate sheet labeling conventions (discussed in class)
Page 1:
Two paragraphs of handwritten text (see additional hand out for text, and review Chapter 2 in your required textbook) Copy the short paragraph in 3/16” high letters with 1/8” spaces between lines of text.  Copy the long paragraph in 1/8” high letters with 1/16” spaces between lines of text.
Page 2:
Window and door examples. Draw three examples in 1/2” scale, and three in 1/4” scale, evenly spaced on the page with labels below each example. (See Chapter 3 in your text book for examples as well as additional information placed on D2L.)
Page 3:
Examples of material symbols (Chapter 5 in required textbook as well as info uploaded to D2L.) Eight samples in 2” x 2” squares (or circles), evenly spaced on the page with labels below each sample.
Page 4:
Graphic symbols for furniture in plan view. Can also include kitchen and bathroom symbols, rugs and plants. (See Chapter 4 in textbook as well as additional information on D2L.) Create 2 scenarios on one page. Use 1/4” scale for one version, and 1/2” scale for the other..   
Page 5: 
Electrical and lighting symbols (Pages 80-82 in required textbook) Ten of each.
Page 6: 
Two drafted and free hand sketches of a window treatment. Include shading and highlights. Use the examples provided (copy but do not trace), or do your own original drawing of a window treatment in your home or from a picture in a magazine or catalog. The treatment must utilize fabric.  Keep each image within a 5” x 7” parameter.
For additional examples see the provided information included with this assignment on D2L in the “Content” section.
Process
1. Research! You will begin this assignment working with a group to evaluate elements of a built environment and explore ways to communicate those concepts in a flattened, two-dimensional form.  While in the “research” phase, keep moving forward with the project by cutting your vellum, laying out a title block template, creating a title page, and starting your hand lettering.
2. Begin drafting!  As you are just starting out, you may feel more comfortable laying out your work on tracing paper which can be traced through your vellum.  This is fine, but keep in mind that you are doing the drawings twice.  Give yourself ample time to do the work.  Remember, neatness and clarity is your goal, so doing the drawings initially on tracing paper may be how you feel the most confident.  Your aim as you move forward however, should be to get where you can use your non-photo blue pencil and “jump right in” on the layout.
3. The last page of your booklet will allow for some freehand approaches when drawing your window    treatments, but that will only be seen in the shading and any pattern you produce on the fabrics.  The window treatment must be drafted.
4. When your drafting is complete, you will make copies of the pages on a standard copier and bind the copied pages with a black paper binding and staples.

Deliverables   
1. Your work from the group exercise.
2. Your original drawings drafted in pencil on 11” x 17” vellum. The original pages of your “Art of Hand Drafting” book must include:
- A title page, including a table of contents with appropriate sheet labeling conventions.
- 1 page of hand written text
- 1 page with windows and doors
- 1 page of material symbols
- 1 page with furniture symbols
- 1 page of electrical and lighting symbols
- 1 page of window treatment drawings
3. One black line copy of your 7 pages bound on the left hand side of the paper.
Craft   
Craft counts, and you will be graded on it. Before making copies of your work, please take the time to clean up all stray pencil marks, and smudges. Make your lines straight, sharp crisp and clean--in other words, use your drafting tools!  DO NOT LEAVE THIS PROJECT UNTIL THE NIGHT BEFORE IT’S DUE!
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