He was trained as a draftsman by the architect Henry Hobson Richardson while the latter was completing Trinity Church in Boston.
Asked why he has always tended to use "found" images, rather than imagining them himself, he replied, without embarrassment, "I was never well trained as a draftsman.
His first instincts were to follow his parents into a musical career but on leaving school in 1898 he decided to train as a draftsman and artist in Munich.
This gap needs to be filled, as spatial skills are key in many vocationally trained professions (brick layers, metalworker, furniture maker, draftsman, etc).
He grew up on subsistence farms in Vermont and Rhode Island, became an apprentice first as a machinist, then as a draftsman, before training as a mechanical engineer.
Algardi, the son of a silk merchant from Bologna, was trained under Lodovico Carracci at the Accademia degli Incamminati, where he acquired the skills of a first-rate draftsman.
Asked why he has always tended to use "found" images, rather than imagining them himself, he replied, without embarrassment, "I was never well trained as a draftsman..
Jean de Brunhoff was trained as a painter, and what strikes one first about his preliminary drawings for "Babar" is how much more conventionally masterly — the work of an obviously accomplished draftsman — they look than the final drawings do.
Jean de Brunhoff was trained as a painter, and what strikes one first about his preliminary drawings for "Babar" is how much more conventionally masterly the work of an obviously accomplished draftsman they look than the final drawings do.
The evidence narrows the list of suspects to Lex Cusack, since only he had direct access to his father's papers before 1993, as well as having formal training as a draftsman and artist.
