Talk:Technical illustration

message: Is Technical Illustration dead?
I've been a Technical Illustrator for almost 30 years now and every year there seems to be less and less work. Hardly anyone has the budget these days for an Illustration that can take months of work.
Raymond Ore, http://www.raymation.co.uk. - 24 April 2007. 00:45 (UTC)
:I agree. As an illustrator for over 20 years, it seems like it is not valued as much as it used to be or the quality is not as important. 
:By the way, why does the definition of this continue to change by people who seem to have no idea what technical illustration is all about? "...to complete the operation of a procedure". Not necessarily.
:I would go ahead and change it again but it keeps getting changed back OR is get grouped into technical writing.
:http://www.billfehr.com - 1 June 2007, 00:00 (UTC)
::: Popular science magazines are still full of them, but most of it is digital or digitally enhanced. If you are an old-school Rotring artist, more power to you, but yes, that is going out of fashion, for cost reasons, as you state.80.47.199.50 (talk) 06:11, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  The practice 

message: * T.A. Thomas (1978) in Technical illustration (Gregg Division, McGraw-Hill) includes in his book:
: What is technical illustration -- Freehand technical sketching -- Isometric drawing -- Ellipse and hexagon templates -- Basic techniques intersections and sections -- Measuring with sphere and protractors -- Ellipse as a measuring device -- Fastners and springs -- Layout and construction methods -- Perspective drawing -- Shading techniques photo retouching and airbrush -- Oblique drawing -- Inking methods and equipment 
:See also here
* Clive Holmes (1982) in Beginner's Guide to Technical Illustration (Newnes Technical Books) includes: 
:Isometric projection, technical pens, dimetric projection, circlip, knurl, french curves, right angle bracket, Oblique projection, split pin, minor axis, stipple, City and Guilds, mechanical pencil, Roller chain, major axis, centre point, millimetres, spur gears, Third Angle Projection, milling cutter
Books entitled "Technical Illustration", chronologically:
* Higgins Ink Company Brooklyn (1953). Technical Illustration‎. Higgins Ink Company. 62 pp.
* A D Pyeatt (1960). Technical Illustration.‎ Higgins Ink Co. 113 pp. 
* Robert Lloyd Batho (1968). A Practical Approach to Technical Illustration‎ 72 pp.
* Joseph Clifford Gibby (1970). Technical Illustration: Procedure and Practice‎. American Technical Society. 352 pp.
* T.A. Thomas (1972). Problems in Technical Illustration‎. McGraw-Hill 166 pp. 
* James H. Earle (1978). Technical Illustration‎ Creative Pub. Co., 1978 . 70 pp.
* T.A. Thomas (1978). Technical illustration. Gregg Division, McGraw-Hill.
* John A. Nelson (1979). Technical Illustration, Van Nostrand Reinhold. 
* John A. Nelson (1979). Drafting for Trades & Industry--technical Illustration: Technical Illustration‎. Delmar Publishers, 1979. 
* Clive Holmes (1982) Beginner's Guide to Technical Illustration. Newnes Technical Books, 1982. . 166 pp.
* George C. Beakley, Donald D. Autore, David W. Hudgins (1983). Introduction to Technical Illustration‎ Bobbs-Merrill Educational Pub., 1983. 
* James D. Bethune (1983). Technical Illustration‎. Prentice Hall, 1983. 
* Jon M. Duff (1983). Industrial Technical Illustration‎. Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1983. 
* Jan Mracek (1983). Technical Illustration and Graphics‎ Prentice-Hall, 1983.  
* Judy Martin (1989). Technical Illustration: Materials, Methods and Techniques‎ Child & Associates, 1989 
* Kazuo Abe, Fumihiko Nishioka (1993). Diagram Graphics: The Best in Graphs, Charts, Maps and Technical Illustration‎. Nippan, 1993. 
* Jon M. Duff, Jon M Dudd (1993). Technical Illustration with Computer Applications‎. Prentice-Hall, 1993. .
* P.I.E.Books Staff (1998). Diagram Collection: The Best in Graphs, Charts, Maps, and Technical Illustration. P.I.E. Books. Nippon Shuppan Hanbai (Deutschland) GmbH, 1998. 
* John A. Dennison, Charles D. Johnson (2003). Technical Illustration: Techniques and Applications‎. Goodheart-Willcox, 2003. 
Now these are 19 books entitled "Technical Illustration" I could find so far. 
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:35, 15 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  In books 

message: Due to possible violation of copyright, see WP:Copyvio, I have removed one or more section of this article for now. 
I apologize for all inconvenience I have caused here, see also here. If you would like to assist in improving this article, please let me know. I can use all the help I can get. Thank you.
-- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 23:29, 13 October 2009 (UTC)
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message: I believe there is a distinct subset of Technical illustration, known as scientific illustration. This style is characterized by simple pen and ink lines and stipples, to convey flora and fauna, cells, and other natural history images with more precision than a photo, and a minimum of artistic interpretation. i believe there are strict rules about what technique is used for any given surface to be portrayed. i added a link  to a sample image in this style, and a sentence stating briefly what i have said here. I think the subject needs further expansion.Mercurywoodrose (talk) 02:26, 7 April 2012 (UTC)
replies: text:  I know what you are trying to say with "a minimum of artistic interpretation" but this kind of misses the point by stating what it isn't instead of what it is, A good scientific illustrator brings his or her knowledge of the subject into the rendering. That is both an artful and an interpretative act! What you mean rather is that flight of fancy and dramatic flourishes are banned (and even there there is a tiny bit of room for debate),80.47.199.50 (talk) 06:09, 12 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Scientific illustration