haHA! You thought I had fallen off the wagon and started ignoring my Daily Tool responsibilities when I was, in fact, just busy playing Bayonetta and Assassins’s Creed 2 and slowly drawing this beast:

The halogen work lamp I drew a few tools back was from the same cordless tool set as this drill, which means they share an 18V battery pack.  So, in an attempt to be clever I copied the battery pack from the older drawing and used it as a base for this one. Unfortunately, because the work lamp drawing was horribly disproportionate, using it as my scaling base left me with some sort of floppy clown drill – a tool that totally sucks.

Out came the ruler and 30 minutes later I had a proportional grid from which to draw. Much better. To give you an idea of just how wrong the work lamp battery was, here it is side-by side with the proportionate battery:

In addition to corrected proportions, some serious shading upgrades were made between the first drawing and now. I shaded the drill by laying down a solid color with no depth, then selecting a slightly darker color and adding concentric bands of darklights. This ended up being pretty “patchy”, so I used the blur filter and a low-opacity eraser to clean it up. I’ll probably use this technique for the rest of the drawings.I’m proud to say that you can see increases in line quality and shading quality between these two pieces, as well as a general decline in jank.

Here are some bonus images in the form of the drill’s flesh and bones. “Bones” would be the outline and “Flesh” would be the shading with no outline at all. The flesh image looks like an impressionist piece of some sort, which is neat.

Tool #30 is definitely going to be the DeWilt Reciprocating Saw, so I’ll probably go back to some simpler tools this week.

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And now for something completely different… my wife has asked me to build her a light box for photography stuff and I have agreed to do it with LEDs and then use it to take pictures of my Legos and other assorted games and toys. This project is wife-sanctioned and involves LEDs and construction. I am excited about this. I will try to spend less than $100.00.

tags: tool of the day