Comments on: The Drawing Board http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/the-drawing-board?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-drawing-board landscape design, gardens, plants, creativity Sat, 18 May 2013 09:46:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: compostinmyshoe http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/the-drawing-board/comment-page-1#comment-1140 compostinmyshoe Fri, 02 Apr 2010 11:53:32 +0000 http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/?p=2959#comment-1140 I have never done anything but pencil drawing and can’t imagine using the computer for this kind of work. Love the napkin designing the best!

If you approach a CAD program as if it’s a digital pencil it makes sense…it’s just so clicky though.

]]> By: Alice Joyce http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/the-drawing-board/comment-page-1#comment-1134 Alice Joyce Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:55:09 +0000 http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/?p=2959#comment-1134 What taste you have! Love the image you’ve chosen to illustrate this musing on drawing.
You never let me down when I find time to stop by here;-)
Alice

What comforting words, Alice. Thank you. Love kudos from a tastemaker like you! Wish you were here for Spring!

]]> By: Dave http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/the-drawing-board/comment-page-1#comment-1132 Dave Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:21:54 +0000 http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/?p=2959#comment-1132 I love the hand-drawn part of the process. Even though everything ends up in CAD, I still start most jobs on trace at the board. Mostly, it’s because I get massive tunnel vision if I start in CAD, but there’s a ritual component for me too. Smooth out the trace, grab the blue lead and lay out by boundary lines, then start sketching… After a lousy day like yesterday, I need the mental cleansing that comes from the holy trinity of graphite, coffee, and Willie Nelson :)

Love your blog, btw. How have I never been here before??

Welcome Dave! I too, as you can probably tell love to draw. I often draw elevations on site to remind me of my thought process at the time – a photo doesn’t cut it. I understand completely about the tunnel vision….

]]> By: Helen at Toronto Gardens http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/the-drawing-board/comment-page-1#comment-1131 Helen at Toronto Gardens Wed, 31 Mar 2010 11:22:33 +0000 http://www.susancohangardens.com/blog/?p=2959#comment-1131 As someone who is just learning the ropes of landscape design and drafting, I can sympathize in a way that I couldn’t have six months ago. Hand drafting can be painstakingly time consuming. But I know that with something I do every day, writing, there’s often a time when I have to shun the keyboard and put a pencil or pen on paper. There’s something about that mind-body connection that frees up the log jam.

I could never give up my pencil or sharpie! It’s just that the creation and preparation of landscape plans like most other things in this 21st century world have speeded up–and lost something in the process.

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