A New Life for an Old Sketch... - We have a Winner! -

[Ross Macintosh]

The attached illustration started its life as a small pencil sketch in a sketch book. I scanned it in and was looking at in Xara wondering what I could do with it. I decided to try to alter it to look like a blueprint (diazo contact print). I found it was very easy to do so. Without converting the imported bitmap to an editable shape I gave the bitmap a blue fill and a white line colour. The blue didn't look right so I used the colour editor to adjust the colour of the fill until I liked it. I saved that colour as a named colour. Next I put a rectangle behind and gave it the new named colour as its fill. Simply adding some text and I was done.

It has taken me longer to one-finger type this message than it took to develop the image. I've a big inkjet plotter at work so I think I'll try plotting it out poster size to see how it looks.

Regards, Ross

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[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on January 30, 2001 at 04:33 AM.]

[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on February 04, 2001 at 11:59 AM.]

[Ross Macintosh]

The attached illustration started its life as a small pencil sketch in a sketch book. I scanned it in and was looking at in Xara wondering what I could do with it. I decided to try to alter it to look like a blueprint (diazo contact print). I found it was very easy to do so. Without converting the imported bitmap to an editable shape I gave the bitmap a blue fill and a white line colour. The blue didn't look right so I used the colour editor to adjust the colour of the fill until I liked it. I saved that colour as a named colour. Next I put a rectangle behind and gave it the new named colour as its fill. Simply adding some text and I was done.

It has taken me longer to one-finger type this message than it took to develop the image. I've a big inkjet plotter at work so I think I'll try plotting it out poster size to see how it looks.

Regards, Ross

<a href=http://www.designstop.com/>DesignStop.Com</a>

[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on January 30, 2001 at 04:33 AM.]

[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on February 04, 2001 at 11:59 AM.]

[Ross Macintosh]

A prize goes to the first person who can correctly identify the train station that is illustrated above.

The prize will not be valuable but it will be "exclusive"! I'll send a nice Nova Scotia postcard to the winner!

Regards, Ross

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[joroho]

Nice job, Ross, it looks great. I haven't visited many of these train stations, but it looks similar to the one in Frankfurt, Germany.

joroho

[Soquili]

Ross, I've no idea which train station you've sketched. It does remind me of several stations in Europe, as Joroho mentioned Frankfurt, or possibly the main station in Basel Switzerland.

I like the blueprint effect. Please let us know how the plotter rendering works.

Great Job!

Soquili [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

[amoore]

The white on blue works really well for this picture.

The station looks like something across the pond. The only non-US train station name I can think of is Victoria Station, so I'll have to guess that. [img]/infopop/emoticons/icon_smile.gif[/img]

Allison

[ivan louette]

There is a nice station which resembles that in Antwerpen, Belgium.

Regards,

ivan

[Lobo]

Hmmm, I bet it's in Canada. But, it does look like Hamburg Station to me?

[qmr]

A nice drawing, Ross

I get the feeling that person on the right standing just above the 'n' has just remembered he left his lights on in the carpark..

Q.

http://www.Qdesign.co.nz

[Ross Macintosh]

Keep guessing on the train station! Getting close!

I was happy with the blueprint effect so I tried to make a sepiaprint. It has given new life to an old blackline pen & ink sketch I did years ago. By the way, Xaran David King's family, if I'm not mistaken, own the cinema/theatre across the street from this building. It is a small world and Annapolis Royal is an even smaller town. Come to Nova Scotia for a visit!

Regards, Ross

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[This message was edited by Ross Macintosh on January 30, 2001 at 04:31 AM.]