Drawn as ink on paper, scanned, raster edited in Gimp, imported to Inkscape. Traced, then node edited. This should be a very clean vector file to cut vinyl with, make pen drawings, web graphics, or prints. The lower vector has all the pieces, so that you can color them as you please. The upper one has the pieces removed by path > difference. roland plotter vinyl cutter sign making machine Plotter for plotter
Drawn in ink on vinyl paint mask, as an attempted substitute for Yupo brand paper. Barely tolerable results there. Hand oils made ink bead up. Then scanned, raster edited in Gimp, imported into Inkscape, path > trace bitmap, then a little node editing, but not much. There are still a 'bujillion' nodes here, so it might slow your plotter down some. Also, there is -zero- research evidence that a gate looking like this ever existed, I just made it up. old wooden gate gate for pen plotter gate for vinyl cutter Gate for plotter
A different method than my usual approach. I didn't use the trace feature this time. I hand drew some of the words, scanned them, raster edited with Gimp. At this time, I used the levels setting to make the black ink drawing very light gray. Then I imported into Inkscape. Next I made a second layer, and bezier drew the scroll. I used lettering that was similar to what I had drawn, positioned it over the light gray drawing, and node edited till it looked like the hand drawn letters. I used the gold coins I submitted before; for info, find "gold coins for plotter". Those coins were made for this project. wisdom proverbs 16:16 better than gold Wisdom Proverbs 16 for plotters
Hand drawn profile of man. I took a nice digital picture of a coin from the Cayman Islands, with Q.E. on it, but copyright for coins is different than for other things you take a picture of. So, to be safe, I drew this guy, he is no one I know or have ever seen. He is fictional. It would be most appropriate if he resembled an Austrian School guy, but oh well. The drawing was then scanned, raster edited in Gimp, imported into Inkscape, then traced. This time though, I didn't go over the vector and clean it up, and remove nodes. So you'll need to look this file over before cutting it out of vinyl. There is a circular line near the edge of the coin, and a solid dark gold oval behind a couple of these coins; so watch for those things. gold coin gold standard coin for plotter Gold_coin_for_plotter