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General Category => Pattern Requests. => Topic started by: mrsn on May 19, 2011, 09:19:23 pm
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One of my highschool students has an interest in doing a fretwork type project once his main woods project is done. He said he wanted to do some type of wizard design. I found one in my stash of patterns, but I think it is a little more complex then this student will want to tackle. Do any of you know where I might find an easy wizard pattern?
Thanks from me and my student.
MrsN
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Google...clipart, cartoons, wizard and see what you find!
~~~GB~~~
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Do a Google search for 'free wizard clip art'. There are lots of clip art sites out there and the clip art varies from the simple to the very complex. I went through this process several years ago when I was searching for a wizard for my own uses. Once you find a suitable one it should be really easy to create the bridges required for scroll work.
As an aside, in one of my other 'personas' in a forum far, far away I am known as 'The Wizard', a name bestowed on me by a former World Champion Kite Flyer after I invented a hand-held electronic device used for starting competitive kite flying events. The name stuck and after that everyone started calling me 'The Wizard'. This led to my search for a suitable image to place on my fighter kite box and I eventually found this one which I reworked (mostly the hands/arms) to include the kite.
(http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af305/Tako_Kichi/Kites/Wiz-1.jpg)
For a long time this image was stuck to an old pizza box as that was what I was using to store my fighter kites in at the time but a very good friend of mine had other ideas! I was asked to teach a fighter kite building class for our local kite club and as a thank-you for teaching the class and as a birthday present to me my friend secretly made arrangements with another club member to build me a custom made wooden kite box. After it was built my friend, who happens to be a woodburner, got my original image from my wife and burned the image onto the lid. I was totally out of the loop on this and had no idea until a big fuss was made of the presentation at the end of the class! Needless to say I was totally gobsmacked!
This is the front of the box....
(http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af305/Tako_Kichi/Kites/Wiz-2.jpg)
...and this is the inside with room to store several reels, a first aid kit (sliced fingers are part of fighter kite flying!) and literally dozens of fighter kites.
(http://i1018.photobucket.com/albums/af305/Tako_Kichi/Kites/Wiz-3.jpg)
Needless to say I am now hooked on wizards and have quite a collection of wizard based artwork, the full set of Harry Potter books (read many, many times) and a full set of HP DVDs (also watched many, many times).
NOTE: Right-click on the images above and select 'view image' to see them full size.
EDIT: Whoops! GB beat me to it while I was uploading pics and writing my spiel.....lol. ;D
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This site has a lot of good patterns free.
http://pumpkinglow.com/Patterns.htm
Here is an easy Wizard Pattern from there.
http://pumpkinglow.com/images/PDFpatterns/wizard2.pdf
Here is a much nicer one but a little more advanced.
http://pumpkinglow.com/images/PDFpatterns/Wizard.pdf
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Hey, The second one looks like our member from New Zealand "Merlin"!
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I had told my student to look for some clip art that we could work from. He has seen some of the patterns that I have used so he knew sort of what to look for. I'll find out tomorrow if he did his homework.
thanks for the reminder about the pumpkin site, I always forget it. I have cut a few of their patterns.
thanks guys!
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I also love the kite box, very cool design!
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Mrsn That 3rd one on Gary's list is quite easy to do, I have done that one, probably the 3rd pattern that I cut when I first started.
***Merlin***
http://pumpkinglow.com/images/PDFpatterns/Wizard.pdf
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Hey, The second one looks like our member from New Zealand "Merlin"!
Merlin makes a better wizard than that, even in his outback hat. ;D
I think you're "cool" Merlin we need a photo of you with a cape and a staff!
Gabby
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Thanks Gabby, I'll have to sea what I can come up with.
***Merlin***
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Katie...there is one on Free4All....by Messman...
Here's the link if you want to try it.
http://free4allscrollsawpatterns.com/index.php?action=mgallery;sa=item;id=7074 (http://free4allscrollsawpatterns.com/index.php?action=mgallery;sa=item;id=7074)
You may have to 'join up' but I think Rick is taking folks...
~~~GB~~~
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Thanks GB, I did find that site.