Drawing Transparently
One of the best ways to make use of this advantage is to draw transparently. Drawing a subject using a sort of X-ray vision allows you and the viewer to have a better understanding of the form of the object. You can literally see through the object to the parts that are not normally visible.
The disadvantage of transparency is that the information can become visually confusing. One way to avoid this confusion is to utilize line weight and a hierarchy of lines to establish which parts of the drawing are closer, and are normally visible. The use of construction lines to establish location and proportion is very important to drawing transparently. In the example below, each part of the tubes and cylinders, and other basic geometries that make up the object has been constructed. Line weight is then increased on the more visible parts of the object. The viewer can now see almost the entire form of the object in one view.
image © Ann-Elise Stidham
present the drawing so that the point of view (POV) conveys the most information about the subject. In the first example below, the view doesn't tell us much about the stairs since the side with the most information is turned away from the viewer, and the POV is one that is not normally associated with stairs. The second example has a much better POV.
