Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The skill or work of a draftsman.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun the creation of artistic drawings.
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- noun the
art orcraft of adraftsman - noun the
skill ofdrawing
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the creation of artistic pictures or diagrams
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Examples
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His high degree of technical skill & draftsmanship is obvious.
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Her draftsmanship is remarkable; she captures architectural interiors with the panache of a set designer.
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Her draftsmanship is remarkable; she captures architectural interiors with the panache of a set designer.
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Caniff drew "Terry & the Pirates" and "Steve Canyon" every day for 54 years, and his draftsmanship was the envy of his peers.
Boing Boing 2007
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On the maps, it's a skull or a corroded face in profile, facing southwest: a small marshy lake for the eye-socket, nose-and-mouth cavity cutting in at the entrance to the Peene, just below the power station ... the draftsmanship is a little like a Wilhelm Busch cartoon face, some old fool for mischievous boys to play tricks on.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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I had the Passat, with the 17-inch wheels, in front of my house for a week and each time I walked out to it I grew more appreciative of the brisk draftsmanship.
Cost-Cutting Done (a Little More) Right Dan Neil 2011
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What more, I appreciated Tatsumi's little details that reveal a good bit about Hiroshi and his milieu, like how his ne'er do-well father immediately tries on his son's new suit jacket, declaring he'll "borrow" it "whenever he needs to look smart," or the sequence where Hiroshi attempts to hire a female model to pose nude for him and his friends in order to improve their draftsmanship.
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The draftsmanship of the time was designed around the limits of the coloring method.
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Powell's florid story and Makinen's elegant draftsmanship create a vision of Dracula more satisfyingly cinematic than many of the movies, and they give both him and Holmes a super-villain and - hero look, which seems appropriate.
3 books about Dracula Post 2010
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Powell's florid story and Makinen's elegant draftsmanship create a vision of Dracula more satisfyingly cinematic than many of the movies, and they give both him and Holmes a super-villain and - hero look, which seems appropriate.
3 books about Dracula Post 2010
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