/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.1166296]

Hello.
I want to make the mask from Zelda, Majoras Mask (Pic related) in wood. I don't have much experience with woodwork, but I don't think it will be a problem if I paint on the smaller details with a small brush.

I have a friend who works as a furniture carpenter, and she told me she could cut out the basic shape of the mask from a piece of wood for close to no cost at all. For this, she needs a proper drawing with measures she can use. After attempting something with GIMP, I realised it wouldn't work since my printer only prints A4 paper, and the mask needs at least A3. I settled on drawing it by hand. I got a compass tool and started with some basic shapes, but i can't seem to get the correct curves. Can anyone help me with this? It doesn't have to be exact, I can change the shape a bit by hand, but I need to have a correct basic shape, to get it as symmetrical as possible. Only a small tutorial on how to use the compass tool is necessary.

[Anonymous No.1166306]

print it on multiple pages

[Anonymous No.1166309]

>>1166296
The drawing having measures has nothing to do with being on A3 paper, unless it needs to be 1:1 scale?
Open it with a vector graphics software like inkscape, add a new layer on top and trance over the important lines. If you can't measure it (pretty sure you can in like every vector graphics program ever because that's what they are for essentially) directly you can work out the dimensions from coordinates and angles. Then just scale each measurement by whatever factor to give you the size you want/need

[Anonymous No.1166314]

>>1166306
Tried, but it's a bit wonky and doesn't result in what I prefer.

>>1166309
She told me it had to be 1:1.
Here is what I've drawn by hand.
I've turned up the contrast to make the lines easier to see. Is this completely unproportional? I think I will attack the spikes seperately.

[Anonymous No.1166884]

Nice. I dont have a printer and only 5-6/10 gimp. Sorry OP. And i'm not shilling but if u descide to dumo money into paint i know a guy. He makes a living and doesnt need the work but he is in magazines and shit so he would do a good job.

In any case good luck to u. Looks cool.

[Anonymous No.1167145]

>>1166884
Is that one of his paint jobs? Looks really good anyways. My original plan was to do everything myself, the only part I needed help with was drawing a perfect shape. It's not perfect, but it will do. Thanks for the offer though!

[Anonymous No.1167189]

>>1167145
NP. Look foward to seing how this comes out. Yeah, random fb pull. Looks like he's modding wheelchairs.