Freehand Sketching

ES 121 Engineering Drawing and Plans

Freehand Sketching
Free Hand Sketching is used to transfer the idea of an engineer’s abstract
world to the real world in 2D and 3D.
It is used for daily communication in the engineering world as drawing is
the international language of engineering.
Freehand
Sketching
• Free hand drawing is also used to quickly present an idea in
a graphical form to non-technical peoples.
• It improves the communication between all the members of
a team and also between the customer.
• Free Hand Sketching is such a drawing which is drawn
without measuring instruments.
• This drawing is drawn with the help of pencil and eraser
only.
• Such drawing is drawn before every type of actual drawing
because it takes less time.
Sketching of lines in
Freehand drawing
 Straight line
1. Hold the pencil naturally.
2. Spot the beginning and end
points.
3. Swing the pencil back and forth
between the points, barely
touching the paper until the
direction is clearly established.
4. Draw the line firmly with a free
and easy wrist-and-arm motion.
Straight line
 Small circle
Method 1 : Starting with a square
1. Lightly sketching the square and marking the mid-points.
2. Draw light diagonals and mark the estimated radius.
3. Draw the circle through the eight points.
 Small circle
Method 2 : Starting with center line
1. Lightly draw a center line.
2. Add light radial lines and mark the estimated radius.
3. Sketch the full circle.
 Arc
Method 1 : Starting with a square

Method 2 : Starting with a center line

Basic strokes
BASIC FREEHAND
STROKES
EXERCISES AND PLATE NO. 1
ES 121 ENGINEERING DRAWING AND PLANS
Paper: 2cm
• 8.5x11”
• 80 gsm

Pencil:
• 2H for borderlines and
graphs
• HB for lettering & basic
strokes

2cm 2cm

3cm

= 0.5 cm 2cm 9cm 5cm 5cm 2.5 2.5

cm cm
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