Just a bit of showing off really.
This is the charcoal full size cartoon for a full door panel.
Set up on my bench read to start the leading process, and yes my workshop is on a boat.
A detail of the beginning.
The bottom section off the bench and up to the light.
Top in progress.
Nearly there.
Up to the light, late afternoon sun.
And when finally installed.
Now I want to see pictures of the boat as well
I don't have any recent ones, this was it when I bought it 7 years ago. It has changed a lot since then. The workshop is basically from the door on the side to the back. Kitchen between workshop and wheelhouse. Main 'Office' is in the wheelhouse because I can close it off and heat and cool it, I have four monitors in there. The workshop has 3 monitors and a design desk setup.
Upstairs, openable sundeck, which has my treadmill and 3rd workstation, only two monitors up there, I can watch TV and use PC while on the treadmill. All three sets of monitors run off the same PC via hubs so I on the same files wherever I am.
Then double bedroom and full bathroom and finally open back deck.
It is a converted Whitsundays inter island ferry, capable of 40kn+ in its heyday. Still manages mid 30s. Two 400 horse inboard turbo diesels below the waterline.
She's old but so am I and she is home.
I wake up to this.
Nod off to this.
And regularly pull these in with a simple hand line for dinner.
It's a tough life but somebody's got to do it.
Now that Clothworks has been updated for 2024 here is a very simple example.
Just thought I would throw a few recent jobs into this old thread for the few people that might be interested.
@Rich-O-Brien Feel free to try but in my experience they will still be incorrect no matter what you do.
@Rich-O-Brien said in A piece from my real job, not really sketchup related.:
How do you price a job? Per m/sq
Each commission is different, you get to know the client and what sort of thing they are after, you check the site and the lighting and the general feel of the place, then most importantly see what sort of car they drive and use the BMW/MERC/AUDI algorithm to pick a figure out of the air.
Are you passing on the skill to an apprentice?
I've had 11 over the years and many students.
The caustics in the 3rd to last image is glorious.
Yeah I love that shot too. The reason it is often called Painting with Light.
Is the sketch yours too or is it someone elses concept?
In this case it is the work of another artist. I do a lot of my own but also freelance for many others. Quite a few artists don't have the skills to produce their own work or the time for that matter. I'm semi retired now, so I pick and choose what I want to work on, This was a nobrainer, too nice not to work on.
@sarahjaneboothdesign
The rails need to be a 'curve' a single edge won't work.
You can divide the edge and then weld it and it will work.
@Mike-Amos
Todays job if you want.
So your model is incorrect, the original is not a semicircle. 
You could also try Chris Fullmers Shape Bender. Note how tapping the up and down arrow changes the preview, and then Enter to complete. I through the ellipses in to show how it reshapes things.
@Mike-Amos
Yes I understood what he was referring to.
This https://community.sketchucation.com/topic/153494/real-world-wip-glass-sculptures
@Rich-O-Brien said in A piece from my real job, not really sketchup related.:
@Box I remember that vertical stacked piece that had the human form. There was an accident where one of the glass panels shattered.
Maybe it wasn't a human form?
Yes, it was two human figures laser etched within glass blocks, life size. But at first I thought you were referring to one I did back in 89.
The ship it was on has long since been scrapped so who knows where he is now, probably landfill.
@Mike-Amos
Todays job if you want.
I was digging through some boxes of old stuff the other day and found quite a lot of predigital photos of some of my work from the last century.
This one in particular would have been so much simpler to design if sketchup had been available then. This was early 90s, pre computer in today's sense. From memory over 900 individual hand cut pieces of glass, each one angled by a few degrees to create a wave effect. And each had a fibre optic filament leading back in sequence to several light projectors running hand made glass colour wheels to create an undulating colour shifting northern lights effect through the glass.
The only part that was in any way computer generated was the three 20mm thick pieces of glass that made up the central viking prow. I hand drew the shape I wanted on a large piece of paper and sent it off to a company in Scotland that had a fancy new water jet that could cut glass. They scanned my drawing so the computer could cut it. I still had to hand finish them as the water jet wasn’t a clean cut.
And you tell the young people of today this and they don’t believe you.
@Christian_33
You can taper a curved cylinder by using selective edge welding.
Just thought I would throw a few recent jobs into this old thread for the few people that might be interested.
@pipingguy
yes there are ways to trim images, Tig's SKM tools for example.
But the design you show is a simple mirror, radial array of a small number of arcs. Broken down it is very simple to reproduce.
It's a straight line geometric pattern. Far quicker to create the relevant sections and radially array them... than to bother with any image trimming.
@ntxdave
It tells you what to do in the task bar.
It is basically four single click and releases.
A click at the start of the bend a click at the end of the bend then a click passed the bend and then bend it and a final click to complete.
I used the red blocks in my original to give me visual start and stop points for the bend.