Suddenly my son came to me (6th grader) and asked to help him to prepare a chart with pictures on a topic of
" Malnutrition in India" which he was suppose to submit for his school project the same day.
And the picture is to be hand drawn no computer printout is allowed !
I was caught !
How I am going draw a good looking picture maintaining the picture ratio etc.. ??The DIY Projector was in front of me
, which gave me a Idea (later I searched lumenlab forum of similar useage of the projector, but I failed to find one)Why can't I project the required image (small enough) on to a paper pasted on a wall and then trace it out with pencil to get a basic layout good enough to paint later.
A quick googling got the required picture with information on the topic.Put that jpg on the laptop and connect it to my 10.6"DIY projector.
I pulled the projector to 59inches near to the pasted paper and
I got a good sharp picture of approx. 1 foot.
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Then we quickly traced out the picture with the pencil, voila ! we
got good pencil drawing with exact ratio etc.. (which is impossible to draw otherwise maintaing the ratio etc.. unless you are a good skilled drawing master !).
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Then we quickly painted it also with water color (with what ever painting skills we have) to match the orginal picture.
And the chart was ready in 30 min time !
He (my son) is out to school with that chart.
One side this method looks like cheating the very purpose of
children learning the drawing skills, but otherside it also shows a "smart" (quick and dirty) way to overcome shorter (hasty) schedules nowadays given by schools to the students on such drawing projects !
Anyway I thougth it might help the forum members.
Sorry if it looks dumb (so simple and silly) idea. But it worked !
even I had missed seeing the "irony" 