[TheForge] How do you do this?

[H and P Foster]

What I'm asking is what do folks do to bring their little sketches on scraps
of paper up to a point where the size is life size and you have a good
pattern to work by in the shop.

I have up to now redone my sketches onto graph paper and when happy with the
proportions etc, got out the large brown paper, drew many larger squares and
then redrew the smaller drawing onto the larger paper.  This works ok, but
is time consuming to say the least.

Now I have found that I can scan the refined sketch on graph paper, bring
the size up to what you want the finished product to be and save that file.
Then open it in a program like Adobe Illustrator, which gives you the
ability to do tile printing of your file, no matter what the size, and then
one just joins and tapes together all the pages for your working shop
drawing.

I'm sure there are other ways to do this, and with other programs, and that
is what I would like to know.

Harry
Rusty Dog Forge
Pontiac, Quebec,  and not nearly so cold.