Creating Monk

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F-41 Longsword - First lightbox trace

mwace

on July 30, 2009

With my original sketch getting very messy, I use a lighted plexiglass surface to trace the jet onto a clean page.

The surface is the top of a lightbox, something my father built in his youth to study film negatives. It's about the size of a shoebox and maybe 8" tall with two florescent tubes mounted to the base of the box's white-painted interior. Only one of the tubes is working though