Pattern drawing

[Keoma]

Aaaaaah...I thank you so much Eddy for the compliments I am in all actuality a lousy drawer I learned the 1/2 sketch thing because I could not center facial features evenly, most times on a smaller carving, I ommit the faces all together I love learning new tricks to creating things. The 1/2 sketch is just a super easy way for me to get my mind wrapped around something...I don't know about ya'll...but my carvings rarely resemble my sketches

[Just Carving]

I've been watching this thread since it was started. I've got a hankering to get back to freehand sketching especially since most of the drawing I do now is with AutoCAD and Microstation at work. Drawing on the board is pretty much non-existent any more. I miss those days. Hopefully I'll get back in my groove and start cranking out sketches--especially portrait sketches. And also, another reason for getting back into drawing is I've been plagued with on-again off-again tendonitis in my arm and arthritis in my fingers since we had all this snow.

Bob L

[gtech]

This reminds me that back when I was at school and in my first jobs, the drawings had to be done by hand. There was no computer back then. So that may be a reason why the younger you are, the more you rely on computers to draw.

So in a sense, I am glad to be a bit older... But then, maybe that I would prefer to use have computers right at the beginning... and be younger...

Gilles

[Eddy-Smiles]

Bob... That's my problem. I got spoiled. Ever since being introduced to computers back in the 80's and then giving up my drafting pencils and PMP for AutoCad in the early 90's it's just so much easier and faster to knock out patterns using the mutitude of programs that are out there. You can flip,rotate, enlarge, reduce, stretch...etc..etc.. at the flick of the mouse. I borrowed a friend's copy of Jack Hamm's "How To Draw Animals" in hopes that it woud help me carve bears better! So much for that idea! I think I'll stick to Etch A Sketch !!!