I know what the projection is, but the name for it has dropped out of my brain, and I can't find it. There are people who just go ahead and draw the items, especially when they are not furniture, but plants or something. You can usually tell someone who does it in 3d: their work is less realistic, full of weird bent tubes and strange doubled surfaces and glass where nobody would put glass and wood on shapes that would be silly to do in wood.
A lot of people do work from photographs and design drawings. Particularly since there are those people who put together sets of historically or otherwise thematically interesting items: Craftsman, or Renaissance, or Mexican, or Japanese (there's an especially attractive set of Japanese Art Nouveau pieces done by a very skilled and talented artist), or specific designers.
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A lot of people do work from photographs and design drawings. Particularly since there are those people who put together sets of historically or otherwise thematically interesting items: Craftsman, or Renaissance, or Mexican, or Japanese (there's an especially attractive set of Japanese Art Nouveau pieces done by a very skilled and talented artist), or specific designers.