Better Way To Make A Ramp

david_h

True. . .true. . .. but FLLW was just showing off wasn't he?

thank you very much... i'll try all your ways.. pilou..
so what am I? Chopped liver?

TIG

Pilou ! How did you get to see what was in my desk drawer ???

Those pens were 'a bugger' - getting the line the right width... then they'd 'blob'.........

Chris Fullmer

I"m not even sure which of the shown objects were 'pens'.....

TIG

@chris fullmer said:

I"m not even sure which of the shown objects were 'pens'.....

The things with adjustable ink-ruling pens with a 'bill' nibs - twiddle the wheel and the gap changes to let out more/less ink as you dip it into the inkwell and then try to draw a consistent width line on a sheet of 'animal skin'

pilou

TIG

IF you were flush you got the pair of compasses with ruling-pen nib so you could [try] to draw inked circles...

TIG

Pilou !
How did you get that old picture of me ?
or is it Frank Lloyd Wright ???

pilou

and the behind of the scene

TIG

I could do with the face-lift, not the Guggenheim !

thomthom

@tig said:

@chris fullmer said:

I"m not even sure which of the shown objects were 'pens'.....

The things with adjustable ink-ruling pens with a 'bill' nibs - twiddle the wheel and the gap changes to let out more/less ink as you dip it into the inkwell and then try to draw a consistent width line on a sheet of 'animal skin' [attachment=0:36e57kb5]bead-of-ink.jpg[/attachment:36e57kb5]

I got one of them things. Used it in my first year of modelmaking to paint window frames on an architectural building. Never used them before - but found some in the old storage of the office I work at now. They initially caused a bit of a mystery.

pilou

@unknownuser said:

How did you get that old picture of me ?

By this, and it's not an old but an actual image !

TIG

@unknownuser said:

@unknownuser said:

How did you get that old picture of me ?

By this, and it's not an old but an actual image !

This is the 'actual image' [even that is a few years old, as more recent images are no suitable for publication!] TIG_b+w.jpg What do you look like ?

pilou

My portrait by a very cool guy! (had with him some very funny threads on the ZBC forum in the past)
I believe a compatriot to you (same island)

david_h

I have a few ruling pens. Cantankerous things. Now that we have Photoshop and Render engines. .. they have gone the way of the AirBrush, The Speedball nib and the and the french Curve. Funny. .. drafting stores still charge for them like they were still in demand.

But we digress. . .

david_h

its one of those curvy drawing thingys as shown in the above post. We call them French Curves. . .they come from the same place as French Toast & French Fries - -- America!