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Our painting crew always enjoys painting a more feminine name plaque. These days our workshops have more ladies in attendance and so I happily oblige. For Laura I picked a font called curlicues. I modified the letters to fit in with an elongated ‘L’. A suitable border for the plaque was designed in EnRoute.
There are certain tools I love to use in EnRoute to get the results we need. One is the outline or offset tool. On pretty much every name plaque I create (and there have been hundreds) I like to have a border around the lettering. I do it on most of our signs as well
Kenna’s name plaque was next up. I decided on a simple oval with a casual, brush style lettering. Once the vectors were done I created a flat oval relief to start with. The flat oval relief was then modified by dooming up the centre portion. To add texture with a batman I imported the bitmap which sized automatically to the bounding box
We often get comments about how hard it must be to do the detailed painting of our pieces. The truth is the process is actually very simple and quick. The key is to design it so it works that way. Painting the pieces in the correct order also minimizes the cutting we need to do.
A little more than four years ago I built some fun displays for a local company called Cap-it. The stands were used too hold their catalogues near the entrance to their stores. The step by step is posted here… Cap-it trucks posts Now they are launching a new advertising campaign featuring a British bulldog mascot. And so I got the call for a new display
As always it started with a quick rough sketch. I decided that some rivets in the corners would be cool. To make the type look old I used the transform tool to add jitter to the lettering. Then I added a border
Bob’s name plaque was the first out of the gate. I started with a quick hand drawing to work out the basics. The first task in EnRoute was to work out the vectors. I started with a flat relief
With the next Sculpture Magic Workshop now less than two and a half months away it is time to begin preparations. We start with the name plaques as they make great filler projects. I began tonight, scribbling ideas in my sketchbook while I watched the superman movie. I managed to nail down eleven concepts. Not all are complete but once I get this far the rest comes easy