Tech Drawing as Art

One Hundred Seventy Ninth Post: Tech Drawing as Art

Here is a question to consider. Is a tech drawing a piece of art. After all it starts with a simple sketch from the imagination. It can be on a scrap paper, edge of a notebook, or scribbled on a napkin. But just because it is a drawing does that make it art? It can be drawn with the same techniques of a artistic drawing, but it lacks symbolism and a deeper interpretation of what the work stands for and the emotions is inspires. Or it could be that it doesn’t lack anything.

A technical drawing represents a product and shows how that product works or is assembled. It has to convey a complex meaning that can be easily understood by anyone who sees the drawing. It has symbols that represent different components such as the electrical components. It’s deeper, profound, symbolic meaning is the inventive thoughts of its creator that came together to show an organized drawing and maybe even create something new and different.

So maybe it is art. A friend of mine how showed me how to do 3D in AutoCad, said that the technical drawings are so complex and what they represent is art to him. I am being to understand that he was right. But your opinion may vary, but whatever it is... May the Creative Force and Holiday Spirit be with You