How can I be able to make this into a pattern?

[oyvindbl]

I work on a oil platform and have been thinking about carving a picture of it, but I am not so good at drawing. How can I do That.

What shall I cut and what shall I just bevel (Inever seem to get a hold of what the main linbes in the picture are.).

I attach the picture so you can have an idea of what it looks like. I also added a picture from a hurricane last year (it is usually 28 meter(91 feet) from the cellardeck to the sealevel)

[Drac]

easiest thing I can think of would be to use something like the program paint.net and turn into a line drawing. that's what I do when I do carving from a photo.

[CitizenKate]

Here is a line drawing of the helicopter I made using Photoshop. To get this, I applied a "find edges" filter to it. I'm sure most photo editing programs have a similar feature.

Kate

[oyvindbl]

Thanks a lot! That's great. Now I just have to get ashore and find me a piece of leather.

And I will try to do what you said and see how it turns out when I do it (I am no good with photoshop, but I guess I will have to start somewhere).

[tashabear]

Push comes to shove, print it out at the size you want, outline the image with a fine-tipped marker, then put it on a lightbox or even tape it to a window and trace the outline. Then cover the outline with packing tape and use it to scribe onto the leather.

Edited November 9, 2008 by tashabear

[CitizenKate]

Push comes to shove, print it out at the size you want, outline the image with a fine-tipped marker, then put it on a lightbox or even tape it to a window and trace the outline. Then cover the outline with packing tape and use it to scribe onto the leather.

I've also used that method when my image editing tools can't give me a clean enough line drawing. Works great, although it's a bit more time consuming. I can usually just lay a piece of tracing film right over the image and be able to see the lines well enough to trace the lines onto it without enhancing the image in any way.

Another method I've found that works well... this takes about the same amount of time to do as hand tracing it, but can be reproduced an infinite number of times (until your hard drive crashes without a backup, that is <nervous grin>). Open the image into a drawing program, such as Corel Draw, Illustrator, or Gimp. Create a second layer, then draw the outlines over the image. Then you can just print the image onto some tracing film.

That should give you a few ideas, in case plan A doesn't work out.

Kate