First Intarsia Pattern

[f250]

I am making my first pattern. I'm told to do something I love so yeah, my car. I'm real afraid of trying to do people at least so far.

This is the pattern so far...

Tom

[JohnB]

G'day Tom.
I'm looking forward to seeing the finished product. I love the look of intarsia but I'll leave it up to others to do. I don't think I've seen a vehicle done in it before.

Anxiously awaiting completed project.

[bigEd_H]

That should be nice once you get the pattern done and cut out. One little suggestion, though, you need to widen the tires a bit. Other than that, you're doing great.

[f250]

Ed,

You mean smaller rims? I was just trying to get the low profile tires done, but you may be onto something there...

Tom

[ubgoofy2003]

Looks like you have a great start & will do well with the rest of it. I got a trial of Corel Paint Shop & I can't for the life of me, figure it out. I get so far & then don't know where to go. I even looked for instructions but, don't have any. I guess it is for the advanced photographer. Hope you like it & will look forward to seeing it when you finish. Good Luck

[workin for wood]

It's not looking too bad to me. The tires are all wrong though. I definitely think you are working way too hard. Now that I have the picture on my computer screen, with just a piece of tracing paper and a pencil, I could draw that into a pattern within 5 minutes or less with nice clean smooth lines. Just tape the paper on the screen and trace out the car ( easiest to trace in the dark for better visibility). The tires should be drawn so you have the tread line and the outer wall line. You will have a straight line across the bottom of the tire where the tire meets the road. Check around at other patterns of cars, perhaps research how to draw a 3d wheel. There's just no need to involve high tech technology into a simple process like this, in my opinion. It's like buying a helicopter to get to the neighbors house...by the time you get the chopper fired up, you could have walked the 200 ft several times over.

[Tor]

A decent beginning, but I have to agree with Jeff on tracing rather than using a computer. Get yourself a .5mm mechanical pencil, and either print the picture and use a light table or put it on clear acrylic or glass and put drafting vellum over it with a light behind. I don't like the idea of tracing on my monitor (I have an LCD monitor though.) Trace your lines and shortly you will have a very nice pattern. I know of no better way to get a pattern for intarsia or marquetry. I have yet to find a program to turn line art into a single vector line, but retracing patterns is not hard.

Tor

[oops99]

Hey Tom,

As the others say, maybe a graphic program might give you a better start, these are with about 30 seconds worth of playing with it on Photoshop, just an idea








Kepp us posted on how you are doing.

oops99

[f250]

Ok, so you all see how rough and crappy the lines look. I agree with you all. If I trace the picture, I can always scan it back in and then make it bigger. The original picture is about 36" wide and that I won't be able to print. I was wondering if I was going to have to trace it to get decent lines, now I know the answer.

Thanks all

Tom

[workin for wood]

You going to make your intarsia that big? I just go to kinko's and use the copier to enlarge or shrink a pattern. If the original picture is 36" wide, you can still trace off that. Kinko's has paper that big in the super duty copier machine, so what I do is I just pull a piece off the roll and cut it and buy that piece, then set that piece over the original. Trace onto that paper and then use the super copier to shrink it down. It helps to use a light over the paper to see the picture underneath. Won't take long to do for this particular picture.