For my engraving project, I drew a mask composed of different plants.
I drew it out on physical paper because I’ve never done line drawings on a
computer before and I knew it’d look better hand drawn. I scanned my drawing
onto the computer and used image trace in Illustrator. This made it so that
when I imported the file into Rhino, the program would be able to recognize the
curves that would then be cut out.
I found a tree trunk slice in Michaels that was slightly
smaller than 8x10 that would fit perfectly with my design in theme. I scaled it
down and centered it the best I could. I messed up while making the reference
for the placement so it is slightly off but it still came out way better than I
could have hoped. I plan on varnishing it later on so the image is protected
and the wood doesn’t rot or fall apart.
