Dan designed this sign featuring an excavator perched on top of a pile of dirt.
He took a picture of the rough sketch and imported the picture into Photoshop to do a more finished rendering.
Using the vector tools in EnRoute, Dan blocked out the excavator’s shapes — Scale isn’t critical at this point and while there are still lots of missing pieces it is starting to look like a convincing excavator already.
Next he edited and adjusted each piece of the rough vector sketch. Since the final sign would feature a cartoonized tractor he exaggerated some pieces to suit. The hydraulic cylinders and hoses will be added when he assembles the routed pieces.
The triangle was constructed by using the jigsaw tool in EnRoute to create a shape inside three intersecting lines. He used the chamfer tool to round the corners of the triangle.
Dan added the text next. He used a copy of the triangle (re-sized) under the 'O' in Co.
Open reflection, Dan decided that the 'TRI-ANGLE' needed to be bold. Once he was happy with the spacing of the lettering he added outlines around the triangle and lettering using the outline tool. A rectangle was drawn around 'CONTRACTING' and the ends stretched out using the vector adjustment tool.
Then Dan pulled the sign face vectors over to the tractor vectors and resized them to suit.
In our next instalment Dan will start creating the reliefs, adding and subtracting to get the shapes he needs.