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Music on vinyl records, mobile phones the size of house bricks and pornography printed on paper. What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?

Thanks to boozehound for the suggestion

(, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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have a click
for traditionalism. Both my brothers are draftsmen,and I grew up in a house that had 2 full size AO drawing boards in it and all the paraphernalia associated with that job.Sadly these days they both do all their work on autocad .
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 13:18, 1 reply)
My old man
was a draughtsman. I used to go to his office sometimes to see the awesome hand drawn multi elevation drawings he produced of massive turbines and induction motors.The detail and accuracy was spell binding. I still enjoy getting the kit out now and again for a bit of design work but i will never be a patch on him. Clicks :)
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 13:40, closed)
^ Agreed.
At the agency, we were often sent these huge hard-backed catalogues, containing various portfolios of many different artists - kind of like a commission agency for potential blue-chip clients.

I spent many a lunch break browsing through these, and a lot of the artists featured were draftsmen, technical illustrators, and as you mention, the detail, and accuracy of the work really was amazing.

I like a lot of the photorealism work too, often created in acrylics (just type in 'photorealism' in Deviantart.com) - but the engineered drawings are in a completely different league.

You don't see many illustrations rendered using markers any more either, I was often fascinated by the techniques used to blend the colours, and give the illusion of transparency too, something which I could never get to grips with.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 13:52, closed)
mine was a binman
so going to work with him wasn't as exciting.

He did wear cor blimey trousers though!
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 15:27, closed)
^
*chuckles*
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 16:12, closed)

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