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A draughtsman (British spelling) or draftsman (American spelling) may refer to:

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Drawing</span> Visual artwork on two-dimensional surface

Drawing is a visual art that uses an instrument to mark paper or another two-dimensional surface. The instrument might be pencils, crayons, pens with inks, brushes with paints, or combinations of these, and in more modern times, computer styluses with graphics tablets.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Computer-aided design</span> Constructing a product by means of computer

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Technical drawing</span> Creation of standards and the technical drawings

Technical drawing, drafting or drawing, is the act and discipline of composing drawings that visually communicate how something functions or is constructed.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Thomas Sandby</span> English painter

Thomas Sandby was an English draughtsman, watercolour artist, architect and teacher. In 1743 he was appointed private secretary to the Duke of Cumberland, who later appointed him Deputy Ranger of Windsor Great Park, where he was responsible for considerable landscaping work.

Drafting or draughting may refer to:

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Augustus Charles Pugin</span> Anglo-French artist, architectural draughtsman, and writer on medieval architecture

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In English law, a law costs draftsman is a specialist lawyer who settles the legal costs of a court case. The role of the law costs draftsman centres on a procedure known as the detailed assessment of costs, which is controlled by statute in England and Wales. They are concerned with costs relating to all areas of the law and deal with every conceivable type of legal matter that touches upon the subject of costs. An experienced and competent law costs professional may command a salary on a par with that of a solicitor or legal executive.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">William Walcot</span> British painter

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August Gottlieb Schoenborn was a German American architect who helped design the United States Capitol dome.

Deane Galloway Keller was an American artist, academic and author. Keller was a draftsman, painter, sculptor, and teacher who instructed students in the visual arts for forty years, most notably in figure drawing and the artistic application of human anatomy. He is credited with explaining that "drawing offers a unique record of an encounter with a culture, of experience transformed from fleeting moment to lasting resonance."

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Drafter</span> Person who makes technical drawings

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and typical guide to drawing and drawings:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Visual arts</span> Art forms that create works that are primarily visual in nature

The visual arts are art forms such as painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, photography, video, filmmaking, design, crafts, and architecture. Many artistic disciplines, such as performing arts, conceptual art, and textile arts, also involve aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other types. Also included within the visual arts are the applied arts, such as industrial design, graphic design, fashion design, interior design, and decorative art.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Joachim GiƦver</span> American architect

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gillis Neyts</span>

Gillis Neyts or Aegidius Neyts was a Flemish painter, draughtsman and engraver. He was a landscape artist who is now mainly known for his italianising and topographical drawings of sites throughout the Southern Netherlands. He was a less prolific painter of landscapes and also produced a number of landscape prints. He further left a great number of figure studies.