Bait Fish & Big Fish Drawings

I have recently been drawing fish for a new design project. These are hand drawn in sharpie and then scanned in in black and white mode and converted to vector outlines in Illustrator.  I then open the vectors in the CAD program Solidworks and create models by extruding the shapes. In this way I can use my own drawings to create and 3D print models that will later be molded into other materials (in this case concrete). My process is a combination of both old school and new school techniques but I enjoy the process of seeing my drawings transition between materials and dimensions.

 

 

 

Big fish (marlin, wahoo, & dolphin) and bait fish (flying fish, pilchard, & cigar minnow).

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3D Scanning a Whale

I have been playing around with a low-endish 3D scanner (Ours is Makerbot Digitizer). It has a fairly constrained scanning area so I have been starting out small with a few of my little clay sculptures. This guy is a simplistic whale with a hole that runs through the center. I digitally smoothed it and then edited the model with a boolean function in Autodesk 123D because the hole did not scan correctly.  The bottom also had to be sliced off so it would sit flat for printing. The tail fused with the body of the whale, but I didn’t think that it was a huge deal.  These were printed with 1.75mm pink PLA plastic.  The prints are scaled at 75% and 50% respectively.

Oscar Eastwood @ Maker Faire Atlanta

I was recently involved with exhibiting at the Maker Faire here in Atlanta.  I participated with a group of friends under the umbrella of Oscar Eastwood. We made and sold simple circuit kits that were custom designed laser-cut critters with a LED, coin cell battery, battery holder, and conductive thread.  It was a great experience and we loved sharing our designs with all of the kids who came by our booth. We are already planning on participating in more local creative events.

You can check out more pictures of our work here http://oscareastwood.com/

Below is my critter – Snapper.

Stump Candle Update

I discovered a neat trick with an older project of mine, once you burn your candle down to the bottom you can use it as a planter. There is even already a hole in the bottom from the wick. I switched to a smaller diameter wick with the 2nd batch of candles I made so the walls stay fairly intact as it burns down. I thought of this idea a while ago, but it took me forever to actually burn a candle down and investigate.

Snappy! II

Finalized (well…maybe..that is an awfully strong word) Snappy. The inverted image is for dying fabrics or stencils where I want the white to be the part that gets colored.

Oscar Eastwood

It has begun.

http://oscareastwood.com/

 

Snappy!

Snappy is a new art project I started this week. If you can’t tell he is a snapping turtle, and if you didn’t know, I love turtles (but doesn’t everyone?). These are a few of the first revisions of my design but it still has a long way to go. The end goal is to have a stencil laser cut that I can use to paint him on wood cutouts. The second image is the only one so far that will work as a stencil since it is the only one with a continuous colored area. Hopefully I can make a bunch and give them away for free around Atlanta in the next few weeks. Just cuz.