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blind contour #12

October 20th, 2005 | Category: BCF, Ballpoint

For this week I drew an old box of thumbtacks that I found buried in a drawer in my Grandparent’s house. The lettering was pretty tough, but fun. Afterwards, I sketched it while looking and I came up with this:

8 Comments so far

  1. Terri October 21st, 2005 4:51 am

    Love the before and afters – well done. I think you did a fine job with the lettering in the BC version. :o)

  2. donna October 21st, 2005 5:47 am

    It’s really interesting to see the two versions. And I agree with Terri, your BC lettering is really great, especially the “noesting”.

  3. Rachael October 21st, 2005 7:58 am

    I really like the BC box- it’s so nice!

  4. niff October 21st, 2005 9:59 am

    WOW! i CAN’T believe you drew it 2ce. very cool getting to see what it really looked like, and how your hand saw it blindly.

  5. Cin October 21st, 2005 3:01 pm

    your bc lettering is so elegant I love the way it turned out!

  6. Laurie October 22nd, 2005 12:39 am

    I love the before AND the after BC drawings!! I am glad you posted both.

    Laurie

  7. Michelle December 21st, 2005 12:11 am

    Why are you saying you started this writing, My family found Noesting company and that was the writing on our boxes, all you did was copy it?

  8. koukla December 21st, 2005 8:33 am

    Michelle, I never claimed to have “started” anything. I was just saying that drawing lettering (any lettering) while not looking at the paper is very tough! I sketched the box again to give people an idea what it looked like for real, that’s all. Most of drawing is just copying anyway, I didn’t mean to say that I designed the graphics or anything.

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