Post #468933 by TheBigT on Tue, Jul 14, 2009 10:55 AM

I only recently started doing the scale drawings. A couple years ago, I would take photos of a log with visible marks every 12" up it and print it on my computer. Then I would draw a tiki on the picture and transfer it on to the log. I could get it close based on the corresponding 12" marks on the log/photo. On the Frankie's chairs, I did a rougher version to make sure design elements wouldn't end up in stress points on the chair. It ws like the graph paper way, without the graph. The graph paper way I do it now gets it real real close to where I need it to be. It saves a lot of calculating and erasing time on the log. you just have to account for the bend of the log on the sides of the design. I think the two big Maori guys I did a few months ago were the first ones I ever did a scale drawing down to the 1/2 inch of before working on the log. I did it like that on those two because the logs were too heavy to lift up to see that everything looked right after drawing it on. I figured as long as the drawing in exact scale looked good, then the carving drawn on the log the same size would look right when carved. I've only done the scale drawings for one other drum, because like this drum, it had to be as close to a source picture that I was provided as possible.

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Thanks! I did a lot of erasing on the one I'm currently working on...

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