I hope to be posting a lot of pictures here in the next couple hours. So you may not want to post until I get everything up. I'll put up 7 posts for placeholders, and then post the pix. I thought it was an interesting process, so I hope you all will enjoy it.
This first set of pictures shows some of my design process. It's mostly a series of sketches I did, trying to generate ideas for a design, and finally some full size sketches of the panel. As you'll see in the next post, that idea was nixed by our designer.
The first picture is an elevation made in Cabinet Vision Solid Ultimate. One has to draw up the room and have cabinet designs before one can place a carving on them. I'm only responsible for the carving on this project though, so that's mostly what you'll see here. Someone else drew up the room. But they did have me in mind when they drew this up. Hence the note to "see Jim". My copy of this elevation is a little worse for wear. It rode back and forth to work for reasons you'll see in the next picture.
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Now you can see a series of sketches drawn over a period of weeks trying to generate ideas and get the general layout of the mantel carving. Many were drawn at random times, like when I should have been listening to a sermon.Scribbly and rough, I know...
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This series of sketches were drawn quickly on rectangles representing the panel at scale.
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Below, you see my desk where I slaved over a full size drawing for most of a Saturday. The drawing was made on 1/8" MDF. I borrowed a crepe abrasive cleaner for use as an erasor. It's used for cleaning our edgesander at work. I also borrowed a bench brush from the final assembly department to brush away the eraser crumbs. I used up several #2 pencils in the process. Here I've chosen one of the sketches upon which to base the carving. Try to guess which sketch this was based on.
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If you look at these photos closely, you'll see that I bought several books on carving during this process. I bought a total of four, and had a couple more in my possession. I perused these things for weeks... You'll also see a carving from another glass door project I completed earlier in the year.
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And finally I have the full size drawing completed. Now to screw up my courage and present it to the designer for approval.
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