The phrase "draftsman by" is not a complete grammatical construction and is not typically used in written English.
It is possible that it could be used in a specific context or in a creative way, but it is not a standard or common phrase. Example: "The painting was created by a skilled draftsman."
He was trained as a draftsman by the architect Henry Hobson Richardson while the latter was completing Trinity Church in Boston.
And he now set out on a crash course in self-education as a draftsman by copying pictures from student manuals and drawing the figure from life.
An architectural draftsman by training, Sneden joined the 40th New York Regiment in 1861 and ultimately was assigned the position of mapmaker.
These mostly forgettable works on paper confirm that Ms. Whiteread is not a draftsman by nature; she thinks in terms of volumes, not lines.
Senior Draftsman by trade, NY Hiking Club past president and active leader in the Rossmoor Community where he resided the last 27 years, he epitomized the term Gentleman.
Born into a working-class family, a talented draftsman by the time he was a teenager, Dix volunteered for the German Army during World War I and saw the carnage of the Battle of the Somme.
Influenced by his background as an architectural draftsman and by modernism, Léger was interested in the relationship between color and architecture, perhaps to express the noise, dynamism, speed, and movement of new technology and machinery.
"He was a draftsman inspired by all forms of art.
The skills of the Egyptian draftsman, nurtured by centuries of exercise at large and small scale, remained highly professional.
The next stages of the design may consist of a series of drawings done by professional draftsmen or by the interior designer himself, if he works as an individual.
As lawyers do, those draftsmen began by looking for a suitable precedent: was there a handy document available to justify getting rid of a monarch?
