How to Set Up a Drafting Table

Video Transcript

"MATT CAIL: Hello. I'm Matt Cail and, on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you today how to organize and set up and tame your own art studio. The next piece of art furniture in our studio is a drafting table. Drafting tables are wonderful for many reasons. First off, I mean, as an artist, you're not feeling constrained on a little desk. You can stretch out here. I mean, you got a lot of room--I mean, room to make wide, sweeping motions with your pencils or your pens. I mean, there's just a lot of space to work with here. Also, in setting up your drafting tables, most people prefer to have a slight upward angle. This is probably around, I would say, fifteen to twenty degrees, though I have seen steeper in some rare artist type circumstances. But this is also allowing you not to be like bent way over, which results in neck cramps, shoulder cramps, and just generally results in bad posture. So it lets that paper come towards you a bit and allows you to very easily draw for hours on end. It also will allow you, basically, to have, like, a number of your supplies right around near you as well and not have to, like, keep running around to other art furniture items in your studio."