I'm working on the permit drawing for our small enclosed porch addition. Much of it has been a long tedious and somewhat bereft of creative freedom with the exception of the stairs and bump-out window. In particular the carvings on the front of the stairs has become my most flagrant artistic flair. They're deeply meaningful to me in at least 3 ways: 1 they were carved by hand by a deceased relative, they also represent science subject I teach for work and they also represent carved wood as a potential that could be mass produced more sustainable through 3D printing technology as compared to plastic.
Wood carvings of Hammerhead Shark and Wooly Mammoth.The stairs plan drawing I am also fairly pleased with how it turned out even though I'm sure there will be ample deficiencies highlighted by the city. I have used mostly MS paint to to the drawings, the stairs though I used a second layer to trace the photo and then draw in unseen details. Some of the other drawings I did by hand and then straightened the lines using paint. A recent breakthrough was to draw the pointer lines to the area of interest on the image and then label the text part in a word processor, otherwise trying to edit text is MS paint is a huge pain and trying to adjust lines in docs is also a pain. So paint for the lines and a word processor for the words.
The mostly finished product
