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A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby DaveL » 25 Oct 2015, 18:37

Very nice little chairs Dave, I made some for my grandchildren from 12*1 pine.
I made the first one for Bronwyn when she was 3, it was meant as a Christmas present that was going to live at our house, but she would not allow it to be left behind and space had to be made in the car.
When Nathaniel was 2, Bronwyn asked me to make him one, as he kept sitting in her chair!
They are both well worn, stored in the loft as their mum does not want to part with them.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 25 Oct 2015, 19:38

Dave, that's a great story to have and share. Good for you.

Here's another one I drew today for a blog post.
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This revolving bookcase is based on one made over on your side of the pond around 1900 or so. I guess that makes it Edwardian.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 01 Nov 2015, 15:24

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 07 Nov 2015, 18:59

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Danish chest of drawers c.1935.

I made this for a tutorial on working in SketchUp from a photo.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Pinch » 08 Nov 2015, 10:45

Wow, Dave, very impressive indeed - astonishing! Do these take you a long time to prepare?
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Phil » 08 Nov 2015, 11:31

Have'nt been here for awhile. :oops:

There are some extremely good sketches here which look so real that they could be photos!

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I am fairly computer literate, but still resort to my small Faber-Castell drawing board, pencils and paper.

Keep up the good work Dave!

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 08 Nov 2015, 11:41

Thank you, gentlemen.

Pinch wrote:Do these take you a long time to prepare?


Paul, it depends. The modeling usually takes most of the time but generally not all that long. It depends on the amount of detail, of course. The renderings go pretty fast because I've developed a sort of formula so I can get through them in a hurry.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 09 Nov 2015, 13:05

Test your skills at creating tight fitting bevels all around.
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This is a side table I drew based loosely on a stool I came across while perusing the web. I tried to find the site again so I could give attribution to the designer but I haven't found it again.

It would be a good test of your table saw set up.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 20 Nov 2015, 15:31

A few more.

A food safe to hang on the wall in the pantry.
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Boot jack benches from the eastern US c. 1850.
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A small foot stool based on one dated to 1785.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby TrimTheKing » 20 Nov 2015, 20:53

Cheers Dave

I like that last one, very neat and classic.

What exactly is a food safe...?

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 20 Nov 2015, 21:07

Mark, as I understand it, a food safe would be used to keep something like butter or meat and keep the flies away from it. A friend of mine in northeastern England wrote the following after seeing my drawing.

My grandmother had one of them in her pantry.
It was called a 'meat-safe'.
It was used for meat, butter, cream etc.
That was when there were no fridges [==no electricity!] but proper pantries were small 'walk-in' rooms, made with solid insulated walls, marble shelves for coolness and a mesh-covered small open window on the north wall to ventilate/cool them and stop the sun.
It hangs up on the wall to be less accessible to pesky critters.
Its elevated position and mesh-screens on three sides allow a flow of cooling air over the contents without admitting blow-files.
Ours also had a middle wire-grid shelf for 'double-decker' storage
It'd also have a milk-cooler in it, overlaid with a damp cloth that would kept the milk cold by evaporation.
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A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby TrimTheKing » 20 Nov 2015, 21:22

Every day's a school day! Thanks Dave

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 20 Nov 2015, 21:24

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby 9fingers » 20 Nov 2015, 22:26

TrimTheKing wrote:What exactly is a food safe...?

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Blooming youngsters! :text-lol:
You would have found a few differnet "safes" in the pantry for things needing to be kept cool and yet separate such as dairy safe and a meat safe etc Possibly raw meat and cooked meat kept separately although I don't remember that segregation.
Not necessarily as ornate as Dave has drawn but a ventilated box with panels of perforated zinc sheet with holes about 1/16" (1.6mm) from memory.

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby TrimTheKing » 20 Nov 2015, 22:27

Thanks Grandad



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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Rod » 21 Nov 2015, 00:52

I remember them well too - don't think fridges became common until the 60's?

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 21 Nov 2015, 16:29

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This is a newer piece than many I've been doodling lately. This is from 1989. It is called Teatrini Cabinet and was designed by Ugo La Pietra in Italy. An image of it just popped up while I was searching for something else this morning so I gave it a quick sketch.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 22 Nov 2015, 15:07

Something for the little ones.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby chippy1970 » 22 Nov 2015, 18:09

Amazing work Dave. I've been working on those bookcases. Went back to square one and made everything components rather than grouping.

It all gets quicker the more you learn. How do you get those black and white sort of pencil sketch effects ?

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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 22 Nov 2015, 18:26

Chippy1970,

Thank you. I'm glad you're finding it goes faster with practice.

As for the pencil sketch effects, the edges are from various line styles I've made but there are some included with SketchUp. As for the shading, I go through a couple of fairly easy steps in programs outside of SketchUp. The first is a simple rendering in Kerkythea which creates soft shadows. Then I run the image from Kerkythea through a tool called Fotosketcher that creates the pencil shading effect. That gets combined with a lines drawing exported from SketchUp. It sounds complicated but it really isn't.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby RogerS » 22 Nov 2015, 18:30

Dave R wrote:.... It sounds complicated but it really isn't.


Like open heart surgery ? :lol:

Your wonderful drawings make it look so, so easy, Dave.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 22 Nov 2015, 18:31

RogerS wrote:
Dave R wrote:.... It sounds complicated but it really isn't.


Like open heart surgery ? :lol:

Your wonderful drawings make it look so, so easy, Dave.


It's really just lipstick on a pig.

Thank you, Roger.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby DaveL » 22 Nov 2015, 22:30

Rod wrote:I remember them well too - don't think fridges became common until the 60's?

Rod

That's my recollection, my nan had safe with the perforated zinc panels and I remember mum getting her first fridge while I was still in the infants at school.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby Dave R » 29 Nov 2015, 14:38

How about sample stools?
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And a Danish table from about 1960.
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Re: A Few Recent SketchUp Scribbles

Postby TrimTheKing » 30 Nov 2015, 11:16

I like the table. Not so keen on your stool samples...!

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