This looks like fun. I'll be back with mine :-)
soz some of your writing has a tendency to lean backwards. like mine.
lovely and easy to read
C:\Program Files\Microtek\ScanWizard 5\My Images\artwork\my writing002.jpg
Did I do it?
No I didn't :-(
I'll be back
Alright, now I'm stuck. I've got the picture in the gallery, but can't work out how to get it in here. Someone please help!
Walter!!! Thanks!!! (please explain how!)
Paste and copy the URL (with mouse, right-click) into the "IMG" in 'Preview'.
Cool. Cheers Walter. I was a bit confused as the pic window didn't have an address bar to copy from, like I do for a link to an external site.
did anyone else have trouble writing their online name?
this is great fun! great idea, soz.
i'm sure we can figure something out, rjb.
I had a terrible time! It's not something I ever write. Upper or lower case? Whole name or nickname? I do believe it's the first time I've ever put letters on paper in that particular combination (hmm, I think I did in Madison in some context...)
What I'd envisioned when I started this was a weird retro-techie confabulation, where every post was an image of handwriting. So just hand-writing back and forth for a whole thread. But the process is a li'l too daunting for that to work. I had to jump through all sorts of hoops to get mine posted at all, and had to hand off to colorbook for the final hoop (thanks, colorbook!).
Grand Duke's writing is very cool! Very dynamic, lots of character to it.
Thanks, Soz. You have the honour of being the first person EVER to say that I have cool writing. I wish I could get the letters a regular size, but that's probably a symptom of writing quickly all the time.
I have to confess that the scribble above was my 3rd attempt, as I found I was missing letters out and sloping off down the page.
It was quite strange writing "Grand Duke" for the first time. My real name is quite similar though so it was not too bad.
i used to write like this
for my job as a drafter.
i used a straight edge for the vertical lines.
when computer aided drafting (CAD) came along i lost the ability, altho i still print mostly in all caps...
I'm just having to learn that lettering, RP. I'm on a part-time construction & civil eng. course for work, and we do graphical & technical detailing - with a pencil, adjustable triangle and parallel ruler! CAD is a luxury for later in the course! That writing style does look really good when it's done well.
i enjoyed hand drafting bcos it was deliberate and somewhat artistic.
but CAD's a much, much easier, neater and more efficient way of producing drawings.
the best thing about CAD: no more dirty shirt sleeves...
i'd never go back to the board! ever.
GD, you'll probably never have to do manual drawings -- i'm surprised they're still teaching it.
ironically some of the CAD fonts architects like to use look exactly like the hand lettering
I find manual drafting very relaxing. We've only covered the basics like setting out the border & title box & hatching styles, but we move onto orthographic & isometric projection. I think it's only for half a year, then we move onto CAD. The tutor told me that the licences were too expensive for the college and computer suite time is too scarce for us to go straight onto CAD. Shame, but that's the state of the British education system. If I was doing something trendy like a social science the resources are much better... Makes no sense to me, but hey, sh*t happens...!
I did manual drafting for a course in college - Surveying. I liked it, but I am messy. I smudged and smeared myself into tears.
I burned my hair working on a drafting assignment in university.
I got a little too intent on getting the perspective right - didn't notice the light was almost sitting on top of my forehead.
Cool, littlek. I'm doing surveying as well. We've started with basic linear survey with chains (!) and eventually end up with the laser-guided whatsit that does distance & elevations all together. It's a nive change to get out the classroom and wander round a field,but maybe I'll have changed my mind once it gets to winter! Do you work in that area still, construction or engineering I mean?
Did anyone give JohnBoy the help he asked for?
Hi, everybody.
I scanned my real writing (as opposed to my concentratedly semicorrect cursive) at work and now have it in my inbox. I added it to a crop of our business pr card (business envelope size), which is just a picture of a small fountain my business partner did before I ever got to town. Stay tuned.
On cad, I am sort of sorry I haven't picked it up, but both of us like regular drafting especially since we are the bosses of ourselves and can churn out romantic drawings or clean grading plans fairly easily. We use the computer for our specifications and notes only. My business partner got her start doing renderings for landscape architects (not my firm) and finding out that the designs didn't work when she rendered them... and I was a painter before I studied landscape architecture. We like being free with pens and pencils. For single family residential landscape architecture, we surely enjoy pencil or ink drafting.
On the other hand, sometimes we do larger landscape projects. Fairly recently we did the master plan for the six block highway/center of town of a local city, including key grades, medians, bulb outs, and so on, and the engineering firm then pulled in with the cad and the exact grades and details, all under the general aegis of a state agency.
Back in the old days, I used to be a project manager in a bigger landarch firm, and did planting design, irrigation design, and model home foofoo (overhead structures, etc.)
up the kazoo. When I went on my own I stopped with the tracts, as I had various personal antipathies, such as to planting grass in near desert areas, then a requirement. Ah, ne'er mind.
But, we used to die a thousand deaths, when we were well into our plans for, say 116 houses, and the engineers moved the lot lines. THAT IS WHAT CAD IS GOOD FOR.
I remember one weekend, I worked virtually the entire time with little sleep redoing a complete irrigation plan at 20 scale - including sizing pipe - for 96 houses, from essentially scratch. With cad, maybe I could have pushed clicked a key.
