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Pencil Drawing of a Cabin

“Cabin Art” or “Cabinart”* began with pencil drawings of cabins. It it a treat to be able to draw cabins when those jobs come in. 

Someone saw a copy of my book The Cabins of Wilsonia and asked if I could draw her parents’ cabin, working from emailed photographs. 

You betcha!

I showed it to you a bit earlier while in progress. I gave it my best effort to work from the customer’s photos and a sketch, and then sent her a scan of the almost finished drawing to her. She asked if I could add something that didn’t really show in the photos, a procedure that is almost always dicey. Since she communicated clearly throughout the project, I was willing to try. 

Got it!

We talked about possibly having cards made in the future, so she paid the fee to do the digitization. Now you get to see what it looks like before and after getting digitally prepared. Something about scanning a drawing picks up every little anything that appears in and on the paper. Can you see the difference?

*It puzzles me that as a Typo-psycho, I never figured out how the name of my business should be spelled.

2 Comments

  1. You didn’t say which is the original, and which is the digitized, but if I had to guess, I would say the top picture is the original. Why? Because it’s sharper and more detailed. Am I correct?

    *How about compromising, and naming your business CabinArt?

    • Sharon, I can’t remember which is which! The photoshopping erases all paper color from the background.
      Interesting compromise – I have probably spelled it this way too sometime in the past 33 years!


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