I was advised to produce illustrations for my haiku chapbook so I've taken this on as a challenge to re-remember my technical drawing class. I would do drawings of the visions I had while writing the haiku to offset the image that popped into mind.
I worked with an illustrator Angela Powell when I worked at Boeing, and several others. But she produced the illustrations for our local newsletter. She'd often make the drawings on hand, then very carefully recreate them in electronic form using a drawing pad. I picked up the Wacom Bamboo Create which has 8.5 by 5.4 drawing surface and I can use Adobe Photoshop Elements as the software for using the input. At least one of the drawings I make, I'd like to join a drawing with a photograph--that may mean quite a bit of manipulations with the images.
My technical illustration class was very basic--mostly focused on how to build various views of objects and at various angles. I had to pick up a few tools at Staples--a flexible curve (it helps make your curves smooth, a variety of sketch pens (varying in sizes from .1mm to .8mm), sketch pencils (including a white pencil, eraser, and a template with small circles, and tracing paper.
To get the drawing pad to work, I have to connect it to my computer and install the software. Following that, I may need to try out a bunch of the tutorials they have provided. I'm not sure how much I will get done before I leave on vacation.
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