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Step 10Draw round photographs if you need to
To draw out the bottle cap beetle project, I didn't need to draw round any photos because most of the shapes were very simple. So here is another random step from a future instructable (how to make a fossilised dinosaur egg) to show you how this is done.
Actually, I find it hard to draw people and hands. I can do it, but I need to do a few sketches first and that takes time. Then one day, along came the digital camera and solved all my problems. now I can take bags of instant images of exactly what I need to draw, and use those to draw round. Cheat or what!
Using the image from a future project that I am doing at the moment:
The picture shown is the step where I am putting tile grout into the egg (half a deodorant bottle top) round a model of the dinosaur embryo, with the wrong end of a spoon... (if you must know).
There is a knack to drawing round photos to make them look cool, and it is based on the same principle as any graphic drawing, and that is...
SIMPLICITY
again chose a medium thick line weight and a medium grey and don't over colour the images, simpler is better. With hands and faces don't colour them in at all and don't trace over too many of the lines, it just makes the person / hand look about 100 years old.
1: Bring the digital image in to your drawing package (IMPORT)
2: Draw round the outline of each element you want to show
3: Hide the image to see what it looks like, zoom in and correct and wobbly curves that don't look like they are going where they should.
Actually, I find it hard to draw people and hands. I can do it, but I need to do a few sketches first and that takes time. Then one day, along came the digital camera and solved all my problems. now I can take bags of instant images of exactly what I need to draw, and use those to draw round. Cheat or what!
Using the image from a future project that I am doing at the moment:
The picture shown is the step where I am putting tile grout into the egg (half a deodorant bottle top) round a model of the dinosaur embryo, with the wrong end of a spoon... (if you must know).
There is a knack to drawing round photos to make them look cool, and it is based on the same principle as any graphic drawing, and that is...
SIMPLICITY
again chose a medium thick line weight and a medium grey and don't over colour the images, simpler is better. With hands and faces don't colour them in at all and don't trace over too many of the lines, it just makes the person / hand look about 100 years old.
1: Bring the digital image in to your drawing package (IMPORT)
2: Draw round the outline of each element you want to show
3: Hide the image to see what it looks like, zoom in and correct and wobbly curves that don't look like they are going where they should.
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"A decent idea fir an Instructable."
Also excellent 'ible.
You are actually the first person to react nicely my pointing out a typo. Others call me a troll.