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I usually work in porcelain enamel on steel, but a local motorcycle club asked me to come up with a custom trophy for a fundraiser event. It was a fun project!
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Originally Posted by stycotl
oh, i don't know yet. i've been thinking of sculpting people. i like drawing people, but sometimes the lack of dimension bothers me.
I notice you also mentioned metal and wood. If it makes any difference, I didn't know anything about working with metal 'til a couple years ago and pretty much taught myself by just getting some equipment and trying things out. It was mostly trial and error, and after realizing I was never going be a decent welder with an oxy/acetylene torch, somebody suggested I try MIG welding instead. I picked up a cheap Harbor Freight MIG unit for about $100 on sale, and man, what a difference! With virtually no skill, you can start welding metal together right away with a MIG, and the only difference skill makes is basically just better-looking welds. But that's where a grinder comes in handy!
So with some simple metal cutting tools, like shears and a portable grinder or cutoff wheel, it's basically alot like using a big hot-glue gun, but you're piecing together metal instead of paper. And because steel is so inherently strong, you can mostly concentrate on the appearance and the design, without having to worry so much about strength, as you do with wood or other weaker materials.
If you can afford it, a portable plasma cutter is another nifty tool to eventually have, because you can cut through metal to make intricate shapes, almost as easy as drawing with a felt tip pen! Plasma cutting actually used to be a big and expensive industrial process, but like many other hi-tech gizmos, the size and price has finally come down to within easy range of the home mechanic or artisan.
Now including wood into a metal design, that sounds interesting!
I haven't read all 9 pages on this thread so excuse me it Etsy.com has already been mentioned. Etsy.com is an Art & Craft website and all items for sale must be handmade. This website has been mentioned a couple of times on The Big Idea. Check it out.
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Originally Posted by stycotl
is there a place here to post original artwork? if not, maybe we ought to start doing that here. they have stuff like that in the photography forum, and on many other websites out there. i am curious to see what others are up to artistically.
i'll start with some of mine. i just barely started putting them on the web, so i only have a couple. i will update as i get around to putting more up. yeah, it's facebook--i'm cheap. eventually i might actually post it on a specialty site, or get my own.
i thought you would never ask. all my stuff in on gamers creative corner thread.
feel free to look.
link would be helpful.
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