Are you able to start straight away and / or How long will it take?

I aim to be as flexible as my schedule will allow.
Years of working within the Theatre industry has taught me the value of meeting a tight deadline. It’s how the Theatre world survives.
As no two projects are the same, I find that giving out a time frame for average completion of drawings is very dificult. Especially without knowing the size of a show/ how complex it is or how many drawings are required. Aditionally it’s tricky to know how much back and forth comunication and amendments will be required.
As an experienced Draughtsman, I think my most vital skill is finding the correct balance of working within a short time frame, whilst maintaining the high quality of my drawings.

Where do I work from? (or “your based in Derbyshire! How does that work?”)?

Short answer, I’m flexible and willing to travel! Pre Pandemic, it was most common for me to travel & meet with the Designer, working from their studio, as per any other assistants they may use.
Alternatively, I can collect hand drawings or model pieces, take measurements & travel back to my home office to complete the drawings.
It is now also common for me to work remotely, comunicating via Video chat, email and using file trasfer programs. I can work from photo’s and scanned hand drawings, scaled images or if possible, directly from a model and drawings that have been couriered to me.
I email both the finished CAD drawings & scaled PDF prints as my finished product.

What can i draw?

Short answer again, any technical drawing you ask for.

• Re-drawing your hand drawn sketches and drawings into e-mailable CAD files or PDF prints.

• Creating detailed design drawings of part or all of your model, annotated to include all the information not shown in the model, but important to the final finish.

• Compiling detailed Ground plan & sections, highlighting how the show works and fits in it’s space. Be it one plan or multiple to show how it splits up into it’s acts, showing all the different arrangements the set comprises for each new scene.

• Model making drawings can also be created earlier in the design process, alowing you to print to scale and used as stencils or templates to directly build parts of the model from.

• Laser cut CAD files, ready to send to workshps to print onto mountboard or card and used directly as flat pack parts for your model.

• Or taking your model sized artwork and scaling up to produce 1:1 scale CAD files. These can then be passed onto CNC companies to produce the actual fretwork and stencils. Or given directly to workshops to print “full scale”, for Scenic artists to mark out or use as stencils.

All the drawings required to present your design ideas in full.