draughtsman

Converse of object

• become: Leaving school at 15, he became an apprentice draftsman with a firm of civil engineers.
• employ: The surveyor may have employed a draftsman or calligrapher to assist him.
• include: These may include the draftsman, the surveyor and a whole hierarchy of superior officers.
• accomplish: Sandys was a highly accomplished draftsman, whose precise detail was influenced by Hans Holbein.

Converse of subject

• design: Later ones were fully illustrated and had striking covers designed by well-known draftsmen.

Adjective modifier

• accomplished: This was in fact from George Meikle Kemp, a working joiner who was an accomplished draftsman.
• architectural: After school he trained as an architectural draftsman, but after National Service in the Royal Air Force he joined the police.
• parliamentary: Mr McConnell: We are talking about parliamentary draftsmen.
• chief: He was then employed as chief draftsman in the Central Workshop Division, Amritsar, Punjab, India.
• great: Another early influence was Robert Medley, another great draftsman.
• good: All your own work You may not be a good artist, you may not consider yourself a good draftsman.

Noun used with modifier

• engineering: Harry Beck, an engineering draftsman, designed the familiar tube map in 1932.
• design: We require an experienced design draftsman with a minimum of 10 years experience.
• apprentice: Leaving school at 15, he became an apprentice draftsman with a firm of civil engineers.
• head: He appointed Mr Gustav Wilhelm Wolff as head draftsman, who was the nephew of one of his backers, Mr Schwabe of Liverpool.
• landscape: The early landscape draftsmen all display a marked affinity with the fantastic ruggedness of the Chinese.
• expert: His child-like style, coupled with an expert draftsman 's eye, began a rival tradition of children's book illustration.

Possessives

• table: A drawing board is, of course, an architect's or draftsman's table, used for the preparation of designs or blueprints.

Preposition: of

• century: People think he was just a performer but he was one of the great draftsmen of the twentieth century.

Preposition: for

• year: He worked as a draftsman for many years, and has had a long involvement in trade union activities.