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General Category => Brag Forum => Topic started by: ShadowB6 on April 07, 2013, 05:57:40 pm
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Completed this one the other day of my youngest granddaughter. Very rewarding to see it from taking the picture, making the pattern, and then cutting it. Its not too often that I really like my own work, but I do like the way this one came out.
Mike
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Nice work all around Mike.
Don R
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Outstanding job Mike! Thanks for sharing.
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fantastic job, both on the pattern and the cutting.
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Nice work from idea to completion - thanks for sharing with us.
Al
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Nice work!
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nice work Mike
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Looks good Mike. You did a great job on the whole project. Thanks for sharing this with us.
DW
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Nice job on the pattern and portrait, you've done a nice job of capturing her smile.
Pete
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Excellent. Can I ask how you managed the flow of hair? It seems like the Gimp/Inkscape process always results in a confused mess of shapes for hair. Did you re-do that part by hand, or is there a Gimp or Inkscape trick that helped? I recall you had a similar good result with your older granddaughter.
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EIEIO, it is the GIMP/Inkscape process that I am using. I keep in mind what DonR & Mahendra taught me in that keep it simple and sometimes less is better. With the hair I eliminated approximately 20% to 25% of what the process gave me. The 20% that I eliminated would be classed as junk markings. In determining what is junk and what's not, I try to determine what the person who is looking at it, visualizes without it being there. Though the pattern may not depict certain things, the human mind visualizes it even though it's not there. That's because we know it should be there. Two other things that I'm starting to realize is always use spiral blades when doing a portrait. It seems to help to keep a smooth flow instead of being choppy. And when used to them, they're a dream to use. Secondly, use a Bamboo Tablet when creating the pattern. Soooooo much easier than using a mouse. Though I've now only done 5 portraits and still consider myself a rookie greenhorn, these are the things that I've experienced so far. I hope I've answered your question.
Mike - BTW, thank you for your comments.
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well mike, great job, great pattern, she will love it!
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I think you did an amazing job on the pattern and the cutting, well done.
Marg
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Very nice job, looks great ald well done, thanks for sharing
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EIEIO, it is the GIMP/Inkscape process that I am using. I keep in mind what DonR & Mahendra taught me in that keep it simple and sometimes less is better. With the hair I eliminated approximately 20% to 25% of what the process gave me. The 20% that I eliminated would be classed as junk markings. In determining what is junk and what's not, I try to determine what the person who is looking at it, visualizes without it being there. Though the pattern may not depict certain things, the human mind visualizes it even though it's not there. That's because we know it should be there. Two other things that I'm starting to realize is always use spiral blades when doing a portrait. It seems to help to keep a smooth flow instead of being choppy. And when used to them, they're a dream to use. Secondly, use a Bamboo Tablet when creating the pattern. Soooooo much easier than using a mouse. Though I've now only done 5 portraits and still consider myself a rookie greenhorn, these are the things that I've experienced so far. I hope I've answered your question.
Mike - BTW, thank you for your comments.
Mike - In January you posted that you'd bought the Bamboo Capture and had some discussion with Old Crow about it. OC said the Bamboo doesn't work with Inkscape and Gimp and he used Autocad Sketch to mark up his portraits. Has that been your experience as well, or are you able to use the Capture to edit in Inkscape and Gimp?
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EIEIO said - "OC said the Bamboo doesn't work with Inkscape and Gimp and he used Autocad Sketch to mark up his portraits. Has that been your experience as well".
Nope, my Bamboo works just fine in both GIMP and Inkscape. After struggling through the setup, I've had no issues. It does exactly what I needed it for.
Mike
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Looks awesome, great job! :)
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EIEIO said - "OC said the Bamboo doesn't work with Inkscape and Gimp and he used Autocad Sketch to mark up his portraits. Has that been your experience as well".
Nope, my Bamboo works just fine in both GIMP and Inkscape. After struggling through the setup, I've had no issues. It does exactly what I needed it for.
Mike
That's Autodesk Sketchbook. It comes with the Bamboo tablet. I still can't get it to work correctly with GIMP and Inkscape, perhaps I will play with it today and see if I can make it work
DonR
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I re-installed the driver, now it works perfectly with Gimp and Inkscape.
Don R
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Thanks both of you. OC - Good to hear yours is working as expected.
I ordered the Bamboo Create and will post something when it arrives.
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Glad to hear Don that you got the Bamboo tablet working with both GIMP and Inkscape. Now that I got the heck of it, I'd be lost without it. Well may be not lost, but I'd have to invest a lot more time than what it takes me now. And even then I'm still not very fast at it.
Mike