Found January 24, 2012 on Uni Watch:
[Today we have an excellent DIY project by Ryan Connelly. Enjoy! — PL] By Ryan Connelly I had a fun project to work on over the holidays, as a friend commissioned me to paint a Penguins wall logo for him. Here’s how I did it. First, I traced/drew the Penguins logo in AutoCAD. I scaled the logo up to four feet tall. Then I set a grid over the logo, with each rectangle measuring 11″ x 17″ Then I printed out each piece of the grid on 11″ x 17″ paper and set out the pages on the floor to get an idea of the scale: Next, I started taping, cutting, and tracing: I did the gloves mostly freehand. I used “holes” and the overall outline of the glove for reference and just sketched in the rest. Here’s how the project looked after four hours of work, spaced out over two days: At this point I started filling in the black areas (as you can see, there’s still a little work left on the glove and skates): He...
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