Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label drawing. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 5, 2010

A Case For Design & Drawing

We use drawing app/software most of the time to create some shop drawings, layout, presentation, plans, etc. But sometimes, we still do manual drawing & drafting. During discussions with clients, fabricators, welders, carpenters, craftsmen, we still have to do quickie drawings & sketches, mano y mano. And sometimes, if there are ideas that come up, a quick draw is needed or forget the idea/design forever and ever.

And so I still need a bag to carry and keep the drawing tools.

It’s actually a traveling bag but I find it to be a serviceable drawing bag. As the papers and magazines inside it, got no wrinkle and fold even after throwing the bag all over the place. It has partitions inside, a combination lock (then again, if I am the thief, I’ll get the whole case) and a free clothes hanger! Bought it P1000, on sale.

The inside story:

  • Oh yeah, I still have the/ cheapo triangles from college, the set that gave me 2345 ink blots in 5 years.
  • I got the scale I used back in the day.
  • Also inside the bag is the almost disposable meter that I tend to misplace every now and then. I average 8 meters per month!
  • See the alpha-omega print out? That’s the one I used as pattern for the alpha-omega book holder.
  • I highlighter pen.
  • Headphone set so I can work in peace.
  • Wooden straightegde/ruler (almost disposable too!) that goes missing in action always.
  • Pen and pencils
  • Sketch pad, papers, magazines, etc.
  • And an occasional pandesal and processed water.

Thursday, July 15, 2010

Smoothdraw, Easy Natural Painting and Digital Free-hand Drawing Software

Free stuff!

smoothdraw, smooth painting software

SmoothDraw is an easy natural painting and digital free-hand drawing software that can produce high quality pictures. Support many kinds of brushes (pen, pencil, dry media, airbrush, bristle brush, image hose, etc.), retouch tools, layers, image adjustment, and many effects… Works great with tablets and Tablet PC.

Latest version (3.2.6) features:

  • Tablet pressure enhancer panel, which allows you adjust pressure input.
  • Improved UI usability, especially for drawing with a tablet.
  • Ctrl key to temporarily use eyedropper tool in brush tool mode.
  • Supported the eraser on the other end of stylus.
  • Eyedropper continues picking color while drag.
  • Fixed the strokes’ thin tail issue which happens on some tablets.

It also supports image transform, adjustments and effects; Layers and Layer blend modes; Free canvas rotation. You can draw and paint in super quality, with special sub-pixel level smoothing for thin lines. Work with Windows 2000, XP, Vista and Win 7.

Developed by a small team focusing on graphics, and especially freehand style drawing. The goal is to minimize the artificial effects caused by the nature of computer graphics, so as to produce natural images as in the artists’ mind.

Roughly only 2mb download, it’s a quickie download and even quicker installation. Get the free drawing software here.

I tried it, it 50x better than “PAINT”.

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Planning out versus panning out

This is the second installment of the “drawing vs doing.” Check the first one here (The furniture drawing vs furniture doing). Same as before, below are some units we drew and planned out. We eventually produced the furniture design. See how they panned out. Please click the link for the actual pieces, who knows, you’ll be interested on some our furniture takes ‘n makes.


furniture-custom-design-philippines (2) cliffe-round-wheel-frame-mirror (5)

ZEN LIKE MIRROR


furniture-custom-design-philippines (5) solid-wood console-table (4)

BRIDGETTE SOLID WOOD CONSOLE


furniture-custom-design-philippines (6) trifecta-wide-two-tone-four-seater-dining-table-with-chairs (5)

TRIFECTA 3-PANELED DINING TABLE


philippine-furniture-design (6) keyhole-big-framing-mirror

KEYHOLE LUXURY MIRROR


ladder-free-standing leoque-ladder-shelves-1

LADDER DISPLAY SHELVES