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I loved the idea of engraving stone. My sculptor's instinct of mine went crazy hearing that it was possible for this project, so I used one of my old drawings from my beginner's art classes and imported it into curves. Like many of my other projects in the past, I like to incorporate the human and animal aesthetic, so I designed Bubbah, my gorilla-human character from my scanned object post.
My initial plan was to recreate an old 80s family portrait idea. Where there is one person, and their face is superimposed and faded behind, off to the back somewhere in the photo. But it became too muddled. Too many lines and it didn't quite look how I wanted it.
Ghosted Frame
I wanted to create a waffle frame for this project as well, so the engraved stone wasn't laying flat. I used an A-Frame design to create the frame.
Detail
The border is designed with this style.
Modeling Technique:
Adobe Illustrator, raster and image trace
Rhino
Photoshop
This cost me a lot. I have 13,678 curves and 5548 hatches.
I used TWEENCURVES, and that's about it. I got help from Professor Scott for making curves very quickly, and I used that about 80% of the process. The other was hatch, copy, paste, move, interpolate curve. I used picture frame and measured a rough size for my 12x12 tile and just started drawing over the reference plane. I went into Adobe Illustrator several times to try to import curves, but it looked like garbage. Just think about how children draw before they know how to, it was just scribbles. Apart from the nose and eyes nothing else was recognizable. So I had to create the entire design from scratch. I stayed up till about 4 am for about 5 nights in a row starting my work about 5 pm. There were a lot of tedious, repetitive moves.
Frame Laser Cut Sheet with Lamp
I used the same technique as my lamp design for my frame. I even used some of the same curves. Such as the "A-Frame" curve. I wanted to incorporate an A-Frame design, which I provided a link earlier of what one looks like. So I used a triangle with a sliced top to make the initial shape. I sliced the curve a tiny bit more, so the angle the tile sat was similar to a picture frame, where it isn't completely 90degrees. The frame should slide into the cuts I created; unfortunately, it did not. Even though I measured 13/32", I should have made the cuts a tiny bit bigger. I used the pipe and orient commands to create the cuts in the planar surfaces. I used section to create the verticle planes and contour to create the horizontal planes.
Materials:
12" x 12" x 13/32" black granite tile.
2 - 24" x 48" x .1875" sheet of MDF (didn't end up being .1875 for all of them)
Home depot advertises, Medium Density Fiberboard (Common: 1/4 in. x 2 ft. x 4 ft.; Actual: 0.216 in. x 23.75 in. x 47.75 in.) and even that is still wrong.
Gorilla Glue
Locktight Super Glue
Masking Tape
Black Spraypaint
Building Process
The frame is in the back, and it didn't work out, the materials I bought were too varied in thickness. I had bought a sheet of MDF 1/4 in size measured it to be .1875 instead. I went back the next week and got the same material from the same stack on the shelf, and it was a different thickness. I didn't know this till I was putting the pieces together. It was also too fibrous and broke with the littlest of pressure. I couldn't get it to fit the tile right either. I'll need to recreate the design again, and it was my own project within a project, so it wasn't worth the fuss. My father helped me redesign a new frame from the broken pieces that survived the accident I had. Its not the prettiest fix but it is very nice in terms of funcionality. I only wanted something to hold my tile for better viewing pleasure so the image below is to show the alternative for my frame.
Uncolored Frame
Colored Frame
Based off the cut sheet image, I can see where I went wrong. I put the horizontal cuts on a different sheet than the verticle cuts. Because the place I bought the sheets from did not cut all of their sheets exactly the same, I ran into a project destroying issue. My horizontal sheets could not fit the verticle sheets, and I ended up breaking a bunch of my MDF cuts. I had to create an entirely new design from my broken pieces.
Engraving
The small details that I shared above did not fully render. I chose too small of curves together and should have made my curves further apart. A lot of my detail was wasted to the grain of the stone. I learned my lesson and will know for my process next time.
Engraving with Frame
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