go back to the drawing board

Examples from literature

As a youngster I had planned to study architecture, as I had developed some talent at the drawing board. 
Each of the two inventors had his own drawing board, designed to swing out from the wall at the press of a button. 
His drawing board was littered with sketches and diagrams when the phone rang, breaking in on his thoughts. 
Most architects still hold to the old-fashioned drawing boards supported upon trestles, and mostly from the simple inertia of custom. 
There was a desk supporting a drawing board, with a chair set before it. 

Examples of drawing board

drawing board
They were projected onto a drawingboard and the cell was drawn.
At the drawingboard the struggle is to find that difficult synthesis that, when discovered, seems self-evidently correct.
Then, most critically of all, he raises the third item on his agenda which he admits is hardly off the drawingboard.
The endocardial contour of an end-systolic and an end-diastolic frame was digitized with a light pen on an electronic drawingboard.
If the predictions are completely wrong, then it is back to the drawingboard.
We see the configuration of marks on the drawingboard or computer screen as triangles, squares, circles, diamonds.
On the table are a digital drawingboard and an electronic pen.
A limitation has to be admitted: the interviewed architects were all educated within the drawingboard and sketchbook tradition.
In 1930, lawmakers returned to the drawingboard, and attempted to define nationality with greater precision.
Serial-fluorescence micrographs were taken at different focal planes, projected onto a drawingboard and the cell was drawn.
Strokes can be made with the electronic pen and are then projected on the drawingboard immediately; as a consequence, it feels like working with a normal workbook.
If one is an engineer, then one will have an electronic drawingboard with its light pencil.
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