[blindza] Re: Drawing on braille paper, on a leather place mat

  • From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "BlindZA" <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:44:28 +0200

Makes sense - will try out various things later on...<smile>

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'

----- Original Message ----- From: "Carl de Campos" <carldc@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:25 AM
Subject: [blindza] Re: Drawing on braille paper, on a leather place mat


This sounds interesting.
I suppose you can use various objects on the side of the paper you're drawing to help you negotiate drawing a perfect circle, square, etc. by placing the relevant sized object, such as a cd, coin, ruler, etc. on the paper. Maybe if you can cut a fair shape out of paper and place it ontop of the sheet you drawing on, you can draw around the cut-out shape more easily.
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jacob Kruger" <jacobk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "NAPSA Blind" <blind@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "BlindZA" <blindza@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 19, 2010 7:08 AM
Subject: [blindza] Drawing on braille paper, on a leather place mat


Not really relevant to much, but along the lines of what were talking about the other day, and after we discussed something similar on another mailing list, I yesterday got out a softish leather placemat, and took some standard small braille paper sheets, and tried drawing on them using both the stylus, but it seems to hook on the paper surface a bit, so just ended up using a normal ballpoint pen, and the only thing that would really work better is maybe one with a slightly less fine point, and I suppose another point behind using something like a pen instead of just something hard/sharp is sighties will also be to able to look at the drawings after you're done, even though you're sort of drawing in reverse/from behind from the tactile point of view.

Anyway, initially just tried drawing simple shapes like squares, circles, triangles etc. using my other hand to sort of keep track of where was drawing, but you can sort of feel the drawn lines from both sides during the process, and they came out not too bad - I suppose - and ended up playing around and drawing a sort of smiley face - a circle where I put a bit of a hair fringe on top to cover up a minor problem since think when the circle wrapped around, the lines didn't meet 100% right, and after that drew two little round eyes inside the circle and finished it off with a smiling line for a mouth inside as well.

Will still have to get a sighted person to tell me how it looks, but it feels generally alright from the tactile side, although not 100% symmetrical, but that's not the end of the world, and it's really a sort of first time.

Stay well

Jacob Kruger
Blind Biker
Skype: BlindZA
'...fate had broken his body, but not his spirit...'


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