Drafting Materials and Tools

This is used to clean the dirt off the drawing.

• Drawing paper

• Masking tape

• Eraser

• Drawing pencil

This is used for fastening the drawing paper on the

drawing table or drawing board because it does not

damage the board and it will not damage the paper if it is

removed by pulling it off.

• Drawing paper

• Masking tape

• Eraser

• Pencil sharpener

This is one of the most important tools in drawing. It

comes in various grades.

• Masking tape

• Pencil sharpener

• Eraser

• Drawing pencil

This is a tool generally used when reproducing a drawing

in an enlarged or reduced form to some regular proportion.

• Pencil sharpener

• Eraser

• Drawing pencil

• Triangular scale

It is a useful tool to protect the rest of the drawing when clearing up smudges, unnecessary pencil lines and other erasures.

• Masking tape

• Erasing shield

• Pencil sharpener

• Triangular scale

It is a drawing instrument used when making

horizontal lines. It is also used for guiding triangles when

drawing vertical lines.

• T-square

• Triangle

• Compass

• Divider

It is a three-sided ruler, which typically has two

equal sides meeting at a 90 degree angle and to a third

side at 45, 30, including 60 degree angles.

• T-square

• Triangle

• Compass

• Divider

This drawing instrument is used when drawing

arcs and circles.

• T-square

• Triangle

• Compass

• Divider

It is a semi-circular instrument divided into

180 equal parts, each of which is called a degree.

• T-square

• Triangle

• Compass

• Protractor

This is a drawing instrument used when

transferring measurements, dividing lines and arcs into

the desired number of equal parts.

• Triangle

• Compass

• Divider

• Compass