Football -- need some pointers

Post by **jdh239** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 6:58 pm

My brother wants me to create a cutout of his son.... and I am working on converting the file. I can do the outline just fine, but what do you choose to accent and what do you choose to skip on the interior stuff? I don't seem to have an eye for it yet and am wondering what you guys pick to accent on the interior of a silhouette, and why?

Post by **jdh239** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 7:01 pm

Here is what I have so far. I think I have to do something with the leg, because it looks funny if I don't. I assume I want to accent the football and arm somehow (this is a poor attempt in this pic), and the helmet. Is my thinking right? What else would you accent? Would you accent with lines? or fills somehow?-- oh, that gives me an idea... I will keep working with it, but pointers would be appreciated. I will post the dxf when done....

tentonjj · Post by **tentonjj** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 8:03 pm

Draw a small line on top and under the left leg to accent the other. Outline the facemask a bit and maybe the number edges our shoulder pads. Just my 2cent

WSS · Post by **WSS** » Fri Dec 16, 2011 9:20 pm

tentonjj, love the avatar!!!

WSS

tentonjj · Post by **tentonjj** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:30 am

Example......not my best by any means lol!!!

tentonjj · Post by **tentonjj** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:30 am

WSS wrote:tentonjj, love the avatar!!!

WSS

lol!!!!! thanks

Post by **jdh239** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:50 am

That gives me some good ideas though. Thank you

plasmabooger · Post by **plasmabooger** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 3:55 pm

Heck, I need pointers too; I busted my tail tracing out a design in Inkscape, saved it as a .png file, printed and scanned it then saved it as a 256 color bitmap, then imported it into plasmacam and the stupid thing was still not cuttable. I really, really need a primer or something, or a good software that will let me draw and save directly as a dxf.

tentonjj · Post by **tentonjj** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:18 pm

plasmabooger wrote:Heck, I need pointers too; I busted my tail tracing out a design in Inkscape, saved it as a .png file, printed and scanned it then saved it as a 256 color bitmap, then imported it into plasmacam and the stupid thing was still not cuttable. I really, really need a primer or something, or a good software that will let me draw and save directly as a dxf.

I use photoshop to draw and the inkscape to export to dxf

plasmabooger · Post by **plasmabooger** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 5:21 pm

Really? I didn't know I could use Inkscape to export to dxf...I thought it would only export to bitmap. Let me look at this thang again....

Post by **jdh239** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:04 pm

Still tweaking it, but here is what I have so far. Any more recommendations beyond this?

tentonjj · Post by **tentonjj** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:29 pm

plasmabooger wrote:Really? I didn't know I could use Inkscape to export to dxf...I thought it would only export to bitmap. Let me look at this thang again....

Need to save as DXF

Post by **jdh239** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:29 pm

OK, I think I am about done... any thoughts?

Post by **jdh239** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:31 pm

I will save it as a DXF and upload once complete

Post by **jdh239** » Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:14 pm

Almost ready. Took off for a Christmas party and my brother asked if I could add a couple of more details. If he likes this I will post the dxf:

SignTorch Vector Art · Sat Dec 17, 2011 11:22 pm

I think it looks great.... here's one I did....

Post by **jdh239** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 6:31 pm

Thanks SignTorch for putting that together. That is a lot of work. I appreciate it.

SignTorch Vector Art · Sun Dec 18, 2011 7:18 pm

no need to thank me, thank you, it's been interesting seeing your's develop, I'm blown away,...

Post by **jdh239** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 5:31 pm

Hope to post the dxf on this tomorrow. I plan on cutting it then.

Post by **jdh239** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:38 am

and finally the dxf:

metalart · Post by **metalart** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:44 am

Excellent work, thanks for sharing. Your nephew should love it!!!! Merry Christmas

rkeytek · Post by **rkeytek** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:30 pm

nice progression! good work jdh239

Post by **jdh239** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 3:10 am

Here it is. Roughly 2'x4'

tentonjj · Post by **tentonjj** » Sat Dec 24, 2011 8:19 pm

Thats awesome!!!!!!!!!

SouthernDove · Post by **SouthernDove** » Mon Feb 20, 2012 12:40 pm

LOVE THIS!!!!
~JL

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