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Boat Signwriting – my work.
did this about a month ago the guy rebuilt this boat amazing job hes done
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A leftie sign-writer…That was the first question I was asked at the job interview back in 1984…"are you left handed"…if the answer had been yes I wouldn’t have been employed…never did understand the logic that you’d drag your hand through the paint…surely that’s why we used a maulstick?
Looks great by the way…
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Another lefty here as well… 😀 I had some hair back then as well. 😉
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yeh craig and i suppose if im honest i have dragged the maul stick over it 😀
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nice one mike 😀
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quote Mike Grant:Another lefty here as well… 😀 I had some hair back then as well. 😉Never mind the hair………Can you still get down that low for so long? :shake:
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Interesting Brian
Notice your shadows are to the left of the letters
Always done mine on the right
So I wonder if being a leftie makes the differenceNice boat sign by the way
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quote John Singh:Interesting Brian
Notice your shadows are to the left of the letters
Always done mine on the right
So I wonder if being a leftie makes the differenceNice boat sign by the way
Surely which side you paint the shadow depends on the time of day :lol1: :lol1:
Nice looking Job Brian, unfortunately traditional sign writing is something I will never be able to do 😳
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Im a lefty Nice work Shame theres not more of it about
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quote John Singh:Never mind the hair………Can you still get down that low for so long? :shake:
John, to be honest if I could get down there even for 5 seconds chances are that I wouldn’t get back up.
I have even bought a table lift for my motorbike as I can no longer get low enough to polish it anymore. 😥
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quote Craig Brown:“are you left handed”…if the answer had been yes I wouldn’t have been employed…
Now today I’m sure that would be discrimination of the first degree and it just proves how wrong that decision was today and yesterday. (chat.) (:) (hot)
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Just an afterthought, did your employers ever think it was to a lefty’s advantage when signwriting in reverse on a window! No, I didn’t think so! 😀
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quote Mike Grant:Just an afterthought, did your employers ever think it was to a lefty’s advantage when signwriting in reverse on a window! No, I didn’t think so! 😀
Still wrote left to right on the inside of the window (paper template on the outside)…never really thought about it as that was the way I was taught…and at that stage I doubt I was brave enough to question my boss 😉
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Nice work Brian. Makes me want to go and get the brushes out again. I’m right handed but always did my shadows to the left just like yours.
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quote Mike Grant:Another lefty here as well… 😀 I had some hair back then as well. 😉
Wrecked my back working hours bent double like that.
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great
do lefties always drop shadow to the left?
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quote Steve Maple:great
do lefties always drop shadow to the left?
or does the sun rise in the east where the lefties live…….Don’t know the answer to that
One thing for sure with all brushies is that the shadow goes underneath and not at the topI’m correct am I?…………..am I? 😕
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Nice work brain, i have given it a go and know it is anything but easy. i did better at gold leaf work. :lol1:
quote Tim Cowlishaw:Im a lefty Nice work Shame theres not more of it about
the dropped shadow is a interesting pointThere i thought, when reading this, being a lefty was not popular… 3 in this thread alone! :lol1:
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quote John Singh:quote Steve Maple:great
do lefties always drop shadow to the left?
or does the sun rise in the east where the lefties live…….Don’t know the answer to that
One thing for sure with all brushies is that the shadow goes underneath and not at the topI’m correct am I?…………..am I? 😕
John – For me it’s always been to the left and underneath. Even when I was young in School I loved to look at lettering work and used to draw on my jotters (not to be advised!!!) and it just seemed natural to me to have the light from top-right. For me, having the shadow at the top seems to resemble a 3D letter being viewed from above the horizon, even although it may not have been the intention. If you use a chistle writer, it’s natural to have it rotated ~45 deg to the left (for me anyhow) which aids the form of the stroke going down and underneath in (often) a single sweep depending on the letter size – similar to one stroke or caligraphy. I’ve always thought it more logical and readable to have the shade that way as when the eye tracks left to right along a word or sentence the shadow is left behind and doesn’t have the effect of creating an obstruction for the eye to flow on to the next letter. Getting a bit deep there, I realise!! But it’s amazing what your brain finds to think about when your stand there twiddling the brush! 😀
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thankyou guys ….John.. you know ive never gave it a thought ive always done the shading from the left it just seems to come natural
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Robert you should give it another go…good set of good quality brushes…pure sable chisle writers is my choice . Script lettering as any sign-writer will tell you is the easiest to do light touch for the thin strokes then more pressure on the brush for the thicker…easier to do than to describe if you get my meaning v
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quote NeilRoss:quote John Singh:quote Steve Maple:great
do lefties always drop shadow to the left?
or does the sun rise in the east where the lefties live…….Don’t know the answer to that
One thing for sure with all brushies is that the shadow goes underneath and not at the topI’m correct am I?…………..am I? 😕
John – For me it’s always been to the left and underneath. Even when I was young in School I loved to look at lettering work and used to draw on my jotters (not to be advised!!!) and it just seemed natural to me to have the light from top-right. For me, having the shadow at the top seems to resemble a 3D letter being viewed from above the horizon, even although it may not have been the intention. If you use a chistle writer, it’s natural to have it rotated ~45 deg to the left (for me anyhow) which aids the form of the stroke going down and underneath in (often) a single sweep depending on the letter size – similar to one stroke or caligraphy. I’ve always thought it more logical and readable to have the shade that way as when the eye tracks left to right along a word or sentence the shadow is left behind and doesn’t have the effect of creating an obstruction for the eye to flow on to the next letter. Getting a bit deep there, I realise!! But it’s amazing what your brain finds to think about when your stand there twiddling the brush! 😀
oh neil your far to sharp for me im only paid from the waist down…i just strike to lines scribble roughly where its gona go and move accordingly 😀 😀 😀
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quote Brian Little:quote NeilRoss:quote John Singh:quote Steve Maple:great
do lefties always drop shadow to the left?
or does the sun rise in the east where the lefties live…….Don’t know the answer to that
One thing for sure with all brushies is that the shadow goes underneath and not at the topI’m correct am I?…………..am I? 😕
John – For me it’s always been to the left and underneath. Even when I was young in School I loved to look at lettering work and used to draw on my jotters (not to be advised!!!) and it just seemed natural to me to have the light from top-right. For me, having the shadow at the top seems to resemble a 3D letter being viewed from above the horizon, even although it may not have been the intention. If you use a chistle writer, it’s natural to have it rotated ~45 deg to the left (for me anyhow) which aids the form of the stroke going down and underneath in (often) a single sweep depending on the letter size – similar to one stroke or caligraphy. I’ve always thought it more logical and readable to have the shade that way as when the eye tracks left to right along a word or sentence the shadow is left behind and doesn’t have the effect of creating an obstruction for the eye to flow on to the next letter. Getting a bit deep there, I realise!! But it’s amazing what your brain finds to think about when your stand there twiddling the brush! 😀
oh neil your far to sharp for me im only paid from the waist down…i just strike to lines scribble roughly where its gona go and move accordingly 😀 😀 😀
Ha ha – just waffling Brian… 😀 😀
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nice one neil ill use that to confuse customers 😀 😀 😀 😀
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Hi Guys, I,m a Lefty to ! took a lot of practice to get it right when i was an apprentice, my father who trained me always insisted you shaded to the left because it’s more efficient,(fewer brush strokes) the only exception to that in his shop was some formal script lettering.
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