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is a drawing board diffrent than a desk?

Is a drawing board any diffrent than a regular desk?

I understand that its tilted, Does that help you draw?:confused:

There are drawing boards and there are drawing/drafting tables. I have an adjustable table and a portable board I used when doing landscape designs.

For animation your table seems to require a hole and a light so you can see through multiple sheets.

My portable drawing board was made out of soft wood so I could tack notes and paper into accurate postion. My drafting table doesn't have a hole either, because it was used mostly drafting not animating. But the tilt angle is adjustable so that you can work at a comfortable angle.

I know some of the animators here also have used portable light boxes.

I am sure Ape and some of the others will fill you in. We used have a tutorial on how to make your own animation desk. Not sure if it survived the crash of the board though.

Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.

To answer one of your questions simply. Yes drawing at an angle is easier if you doing a lot of work for long periods. It's easier on your hand and arm and your eyes. Probably your back too, although I never thought about that, that much.

Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.

Here's one example of a drawing board. http://www.jrbourne.com/images/791_std%20+%20deg%20.jpg

And here is just one example of an animation desk.
http://www.flipandroll.com/articles/images/desk.jpg

Having the desk or drawing board up high and tilted saves your neck and back in the long run. You really don't want to be hunched over for hours on end drawing with your sketchbook sitting in your lap. Personally, I like mine at a high angle, like the one pictured in the photo.

Aloha,
the Ape

...we must all face a choice, between what is right... and what is easy."

ok stupid question:

i have an adjustable drawing table with a slight tilt, and but now i want to take all the crap i have sitting on it off and tilt it like that picture.

how do you guys keep your papers and stuff from sliding off? tape? push pins?

http://ben-reynolds.com
Animation and Design

My drafting/drawing table has a lip at the bottom that keeps stuff from falling off.

I love the look of Ape's desk though. Mine's no where that fancy.

And sometimes yeah I'll put my drawing board up on it and pin stuff, or masking tape works too. But it depends on the size of the paper. My board is just a really soft pine type board no additional stuff. Just use a t square and the regular drafting tools with it.

My drawing table is made out of pretty hard wood so tacks don't work. I buy tablets that let me just put them on the table and work.

Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.

ok stupid question:

i have an adjustable drawing table with a slight tilt, and but now i want to take all the crap i have sitting on it off and tilt it like that picture.

how do you guys keep your papers and stuff from sliding off? tape? push pins?

How do we keep it on?

By the force of our MIGHTY will!

"We all grow older, we do not have to grow up"--Archie Goodwin ( 1937-1998)

Originally Posted by acetate assassin
[I]ok stupid question:

i have an adjustable drawing table with a slight tilt, and but now i want to take all the crap i have sitting on it off and tilt it like that picture.

how do you guys keep your papers and stuff from sliding off? tape? push pins? [/I]

How 'bout static electricity? :D

ok stupid question:

i have an adjustable drawing table with a slight tilt, and but now i want to take all the crap i have sitting on it off and tilt it like that picture.

how do you guys keep your papers and stuff from sliding off? tape? push pins?

If you use it long enough, the spilled sodas and jelly donut drippings will create a sticky surface that's great for holding x-sheets in place.:D

Seriously, I use drafting tape to stick paper to the desk.

If you use it long enough, the spilled sodas and jelly donut drippings will create a sticky surface that's great for holding x-sheets in place.:D

Seriously, I use drafting tape to stick paper to the desk.

Macaroni and cheese is also great for sticking x-sheets on your light box. Eventually it will fall off and rest on your (correction-MY!) fat tummy and you can easily pick it up and stick it back on.:D

-Paul

i have a bunch of sticky rings on my table from sitting cups and mugs on my table.

sadly, my drawing table doubles as a make shift coffee table.

but yeah, tape sounds logical.

http://ben-reynolds.com
Animation and Design

If you go with tape invest in some of that painters tape house painters use, not standard masking tape, it sometimes takes the corners of your paper with it.

Pat Hacker, Visit Scooter's World.

Here's one example of a drawing board. http://www.jrbourne.com/images/791_std%20+%20deg%20.jpg

And here is just one example of an animation desk.
http://www.flipandroll.com/articles/images/desk.jpg

Having the desk or drawing board up high and tilted saves your neck and back in the long run. You really don't want to be hunched over for hours on end drawing with your sketchbook sitting in your lap. Personally, I like mine at a high angle, like the one pictured in the photo.

Aloha,
the Ape

Hi Ape,

Is that you Disney desk?

I remember back in the days when we were on Roger Rabbit, There were some of those old Disney desks around (and some new ones). At the end of the production, the studio decided to sell some of the equipments and furniture to the employees. They wouldn't sell the old ones though! I was thinking to myself- wouldn't it be nice to own one of those old animation desks that were used by the legends at Disney?

I ended up buying the new desk and the chair I was using in the studio.

That was 1987 and the desk has been with me ever since. Its resume has not improved much but I can always say that it was used on "Who framed Roger Rabbit?"

-Paul