Needing some help with a pattern

[Lilly]

My friend bought a sign while on vacation out West. (Didn't like the sign its self but loved the idea.) Thought I would try to make something similar... but I need to make a carveable pattern. I want to be able to personalize these. I used the Harley Davidson Motor Clothes Design and changed it up a bit (hope I don't get in trouble for that).

Now don't hurt yourself laughing but I am attaching a photo of Bill's sign and a sketch of what I want to do but have no clue on how to go about making a pattern. Is it possible to make a pattern from my sketch LOL

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Lilly♥

[jaroot]

Well here is as little help as you will probably ever get. Real quick simple import to design. On on left was straight in and carved inverted one on right was imported inverted and carved normal. Someone with skills could probably clean up the art and give you something really nice.

[gsdsj]

how about this with a 60 degree bit.





b&whd.mpc

[bjbethke]

My friend bought a sign while on vacation out West. (Didn't like the sign its self but loved the idea.) Thought I would try to make something similar... but I need to make a carveable pattern. I want to be able to personalize these. I used the Harley Davidson Motor Clothes Design and changed it up a bit (hope I don't get in trouble for that).

Now don't hurt yourself laughing but I am attaching a photo of Bill's sign and a sketch of what I want to do but have no clue on how to go about making a pattern. Is it possible to make a pattern from my sketch LOL

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.

Lilly♥

Great Drawing, I modified it a little - I feel if you make the drawings straight from your mind it is yours. I like coloring books, they make great patterns. A true line drawing works the best (No Fill in) I use the Grayscale in Photoshop to tell my CW unit to show her where here Z Truck should be placed.

[Lilly]

Thanks for the help and ideas.

jaroot...Such a simple fix...was this done in designer? I have been thinking of purchasing it. Wish I had taken more time in preparing my artwork. Maybe someone will have pity on me
and help me clean it up.

gsdsj...What a great idea using the 60 degree bit.. I love the look too. I need to put more time in learning how to use my machine. Thanks for all the time you put into helping me.

Thanks again,
Lilly♥

[Lilly]

Great Drawing, I modified it a little - I feel if you make the drawings straight from your mind it is yours. I like coloring books, they make great patterns. A true line drawing works the best (No Fill in) I use the Grayscale in Photoshop to tell my CW unit to show her where here Z Truck should be placed.

Thank you for your help and advice.. I definately need to brush up on my computer drawing skills. I have more ideas than I know how to produce..lol

Lilly♥

[dltccf]

Great Drawing, I modified it a little - I feel if you make the drawings straight from your mind it is yours. I like coloring books, they make great patterns. A true line drawing works the best (No Fill in) I use the Grayscale in Photoshop to tell my CW unit to show her where here Z Truck should be placed.

I decided to take this picture as an opportunity to practice to learn some of the techniques that make pictures looks good in carvings. I tried to duplicate the effects as I guessed that you might have done it. I copied the eagle into paint.net and used the technique described in the tutorial created by AskBud where you create additional layers and use the Gaussian blur then combine them back for the rounded effect. I know you said you used photoshop, but I am guessing you did something similar. I inverted the colors then did the blur and found that it was working, but not well enough. Then I cut out the nameplate and did a separate layer for it and then the head and did a separate layer for it. I was able to achieve something similar to what you had for those parts, (although the eyes and beak need more work) but for the wings I tried doing the same thing, but no matter what I did I couldn't get anything even close to what you got. I assume it has to do with the size of the items? Is there a specific trick to getting things of the shape and size of the wings to appear rounded?

It still looked like something else was missing until I saw that you also outlined and raised the whole thing. Did you do that in Photoshop or once it was in designer? What is the best tool to select and outline an irregular many part object line like this one? When I tried to outline in designer or in Paint.net it tried to outline all the individual feathers and such rather than the whole thing.

I love the suggestion of looking in coloring books for source material. Those ideas that you don't think of until someone says it and then you think "of course it seems so obvious" are the ones that are real genius.

[Kenm810]

Couldn't help myself, While watching everyone else having fun --- thought I'd give it a try too.
I also played and modified it a little, with CW Designer and Paint.Net

[rcdages]

Nice job on the MPC Ken.

[Kenm810]

Thank's Robert,

Just tryin and learnin --- like everyone else