Yes for the most
point as opposed to just drafting on news print, that's the general concept of drafting on velum beyond the training aspect of doing so.
Really, if a photo copy is good enough and there is no blue
line machine for copies in your production's necessity, some of the best of theories on set building have been presented on napken with Sharpee. All a question of the accuracy necessary and need for others to understand and scale your thoughts to reality. The drafting paper other than velum is way more expensive than it, yet in drafting in ink as long as I did the erasing within say the first hour, was a much better media choice for me. - Very important term this media term, the velum that would allow for erasing one's lines in pencil did not allow for doing this with ink, much less the ink alternative media did not deal well with pencil even in erasing it's
layout lines. All a question of media in some forms being better or not for some purposes. If at least going velum, get the stuff that has a non-blue
line re-producing
grid to it in making it easier to
lay out your drawings. Little lines printed on the velum that make it easier to draft with. Lots of media out there to draft with.
To some extent even if it's a bunch of 8.1/2x11 sheets of paper taped together by way of Auto Cadd printing on a normal printer, or you just taping than drafting, as long as it is sufficient for the necessity of you using it, there is no reason not to. Perhaps for a better thing, one can photo copy what one when they lack real large paper
whip out one day in than presenting a drawing still.
This given the Velum and other form of it media has a dual purpose in that you can
lay it over say a blue
line for the
stage and
trace what is already drawn as opposed to normal paper. Such velum at very least when drafting can be useful in doing other views. Say you need to copy something into another area of the design say in an elevation of the set as the same as a
plan view of a piece of equipment. When drafting on something that's translucient, you can
trace, install it behind your media and
trace it a second time. But than you also get into drafting on
clear media and if not using carbon paper and transfer media. Lots of big budget solutions to experiment with. Need a brick wall, there is stickers out there that you can burnish to the velum and it will than transfer to blue
line copies.
Media is the question here. If say doing a painted or colored story board or sketch for the set, why does one need a white paper, much less if texture is of the intent, why would one use photo copy paper when say a what was it elephant texture paper or skin while more expensive might have been more of use. As with all drafting and art, it is a cost thing in balancing your art and expression of idea with what media is necessary to get the intent shown than as the case reproduced.
Velum will go
thru a large format photo copier, that inking film I used that would also go
thru a blue
line machine on the other
hand really pissed off the Kinko's guy when it melted within the machine. It's a media thing and if you don't have to blue
line, you don't have to velum.