Here’s my first attempt at blogging from Flickr. This is the photo of all of my drawings from the Cube House project. It shows how the three pages related to each other. I chose to draw in pen on double matte mylar, which turned out to be really fun. The drawings have life to them because the lines aren’t ruled exactly straight – if you look closely you’ll see there’s quite a bit of wobble. But, that wobble gives them a nice hand illustrated look. Also, using pens means keeping a steady line weight. Unfortunately it also puts limits on how light and dark you can go. I used six weights of pen, but the one complaint I heard about the drawings was that there was not enough variation in line weight. I would have liked to poche (fill in with shaded or, in this case, solid tone) the structural members in the plans and diagrams, but since I was holding off on that for if I had enough time, I didn’t get to that. I think that would have solved the line weight problem.