Tue Nov 01, 2005 7:06 am
#1574
Hello everyone,
This is my second year at ZP but my first foray into the forums. Last year I carved a couple of stencils from the site and was really impressed with the quality of the final result. I waited all year for Hallowe'en to come around again so I could take it one stage further and make my own stencil to enter in the competition.
Well I guess it's my fault for not reading the rules beforehand and instead making them up in my own head. I didn't realise that the comp was only for stencils from the ZP site. Maybe there should be two separate competitions next year. What do you think?
Anyway, I'm not a good artist, I really cannot draw to save my life so I would like to offer this tip which I used to cheat my way to my own unique stencil.
I fiddled with the settings on my digital camera and set it to take monochrome pictures. Then by repeatedly adjusting the ASA and the shutter speed I was able to take a pretty decent drawing-like picture of my dog. I then imported this into Photoshop and cleaned up the edges. I had to remove details which would be impossible to carve like spots on her nose (brown on white) but the overall result was a good likeness.
This is my second year at ZP but my first foray into the forums. Last year I carved a couple of stencils from the site and was really impressed with the quality of the final result. I waited all year for Hallowe'en to come around again so I could take it one stage further and make my own stencil to enter in the competition.
Well I guess it's my fault for not reading the rules beforehand and instead making them up in my own head. I didn't realise that the comp was only for stencils from the ZP site. Maybe there should be two separate competitions next year. What do you think?
Anyway, I'm not a good artist, I really cannot draw to save my life so I would like to offer this tip which I used to cheat my way to my own unique stencil.
I fiddled with the settings on my digital camera and set it to take monochrome pictures. Then by repeatedly adjusting the ASA and the shutter speed I was able to take a pretty decent drawing-like picture of my dog. I then imported this into Photoshop and cleaned up the edges. I had to remove details which would be impossible to carve like spots on her nose (brown on white) but the overall result was a good likeness.