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technical pen
noun
A specialized instrument used by an engineer, architect, or drafter to make lines of constant width for architectural, engineering, or technical drawings.
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I've been using the same technical pen since high school.
In their drawing for the ICI Trade Pavilion in Stoneleigh, England (1983), Christopher Macdonald and Peter Salter have managed to invoke the labor of the ox, depicted in the drawing's lower left-hand corner, with layers of erasure, collage and scraping – a way to remove technical pen – that have worn the surface of the vellum.
Jeremie Frank's The Macrophone (1981), which forms a possible entry into Drawing Ambience, is one of the exhibition's more straight-faced commitments to fantasy: a large machine, like half an X-wedge engine, rendered in airbrush, collage, graphite and technical pen.
Artist Ira Turek inked the outlines of these photographs onto cels with a Rapidograph, the technical pen preferred by Crumb, giving the film's backgrounds a stylized realism virtually unprecedented in animation.
Turek inked the outlines of these photographs onto cels with a Rapidograph, the technical pen preferred by Crumb, giving the film's backgrounds stylized realism that had never been portrayed in animation before.
The look of Fritz the Cat comics was characterized by the use of the Rapidograph technical pen and a simple drawing style Robert Crumb used to facilitate his story telling.
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In college, I was a part of the last class who drew by hand with the big wooden board and used a ruler and technical pens.
Lower system levels are from the biological and ecological domains (animals and micro-organisms), intermediate levels are predominantly from the technical domain (pen, barn and herd) and higher levels are from the social domain (production chain, livestock production sector).
To create the drawings, Salvat used a 0.13mm Rotring technical drawing pen on paper, but not just any paper: Salvat handcrafted this homemade it using an ancient technique and colored it with tea, giving it a nice brown patina.
The fabrication method using technical drawing pens provides flexibility in the use of in-house formulated inks, short fabrication time, simplicity and low cost.
Rulers, compasses, technical drawing pens, watercolour pans, brushes, scalpels and old copies of the TLS rub shoulders with over-filled ashtrays, clusters of tiny coffee cups, vintage postcards, newspaper cuttings and piles of correspondence.
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