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Sandy Kossin, American Illustrator


Gregory Manchess

Sanford “Sandy” Kossin is one of the best. You may not remember him as he stopped working professionally some years back, preferring instead to draw from the live model to keep his formidable drawing skills sharp. Selfishly, I never agreed with that. I wanted more and more from him. I wanted to keep running into his work on paperback covers or Boy’s Life, like I had as a kid. Sandy hit his stride through the…

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Easy And Precise Projection Alignment


David Palumbo

June 19, 2024 - I’m going to share a brief tip today on aligning a projected image with your surface when transferring a sketch or image.  The traditional tool for this is called “keystoning” where you adjust the vertical or horizontal perspective distortion of the projector to roughly match your surface.  However, I find this method often imprecise and fiddly and so I use a more custom approach. I’ve made a short video on the topic which you can watch here, or read on and I’ll describe the workflow. https://youtu.be/JKQcxUePYcM?si=W_VU0Dm7sVsEzZO3/oembed First step, this method requires that you have your projector connected to a computer or laptop.  Open your image in your preferred photo editing program and set the view of the image to fill your screen so that it is big but you can still see all edges. Make…

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