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Originally posted by Commodore:
[QB]I often draw ships, which don't exisit.[QB]

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Have you seen a Doctor about this? (Only Joking! )

I recently purchased a combined Scanner/Ink-Jet Printer. It's wonderful! It takes up minimal desk space, was not too expensive and can be used as a Black & White or Colour Photocopier!

Every once in a blue moon, I get the urge to put my ideas into hard copy. Within five minutes, I stop, having succeeded in reaffirming in my mind that I could not draw for my life, and making my artistic side content for the next few months.

I happen to have had some distant, deceased relatives who were rather famous artists, and made beautiful works. However, I do not think I have inherited that.

You could say that I am into arts, because I am quite proficient, if I may say so myself, in photography. But drawing, no way.

And for those of you who are interested, I am still planning on getting a scanner, sometime or another, maybe next week, month, year...

By the way, if you do want a scanner, they can be had pretty cheap now, maybe $100 or so, from Epson and Canon.

With Epson, if you aren't too serious about image quality, you can get a USB flatbed scanner and a six-color inkjet for about $100 each.

With computers at the rate they now are, you can get a so-so imaging system, complete with scanner, printer, and display, for maybe $800.

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Originally posted by Commodore:
3 I can't draw very well at all.I thought I would start this thread for scetches of the ideal ship, all of which must be made up

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Hi Commodore,

I recall from your previous posts that you are still a teenager. It is not to late to learn to draw.

The neurons in the brain of a teen are very receptive to developing talent. PBS had a special on this.

I learned in High School, then onto college where I got a design degree. Since I draw lights and lighting all day usually I am too tired to sketch ships.

Most of ships today are drawn on 3d CAD. The compound [called boolean sections] curves of a hull are done in milleseconds that would take months by hand with higher math.

The New York State University system has a Maritime College with a Naval Architecture degree.

From New Jersey, New York and Philly have great art schools, Pratt [I went to], Parsons, SVA, Philadelphia University, University of the Arts, and more.

If you love it go for it.

A classmate/neighbor of mine worked as a designer for American Coastal Drydock in Brooklyn, till they went bust. Went on a sea trial for a Navy ship Then got a job at Pan Am doing Aircraft interiors, they went bust

Do Gohaze, Baker, Norman Warren, and NZMike know of other academic programs for those that want to be ship designers or Naval architects?

Not me, I am too far into my career. Maybe if I were 17

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I often design or draw cruise ships and global them with a fake cruise line "Eric Cruises Corp."

http://travel.to/ericcruises

I design the ship on the white paper, then scan it into my computer and use photo shop to make some beauty job to make the ship more "Real"

Thank You for your comments!

This is one of my fleet, 170,000grt Eric NorwayII

25,000grt Eric FairPrincess(ex.Fair Princess)

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Originally posted by Eric Cruises:
Dear Friends

I often design or draw cruise ships and global them with a fake cruise line "Eric Cruises"

http://travel.to/ericcruises

I design the ship on the white paper, then scan it into my computer and use photo shop to make some beauty job to make the ship more "Real"

Thank You for your comments!

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Very nice, I like that design. Combines the modern and traditional!

There are lots of people's own cruise ship designs here, including Eric's.

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Originally posted by Commodore:
Well, most people would think I'm older,
I am very good with facts,etc.I'm not good at much else.Anyway, by the end of the week, I'll have my sketch posted,I hope.This thread is becoming popular...

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I'll be interested to see your sketch... Did you get a scanner?

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Originally posted by Commodore:
No, CruiseNY,
I didn't, but I can use one in my father's office in the next room over.I lost the drawing,which will cause delay.

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Oh. One room over is not much of a trek.

I know some of you have been awaiting, or dreading, this moment, but yesterday I bit the bullet, and got a new printer, and a scanner.

Both of them are extraordinary, in their quality, and in the prices I paid.

I scanned what I considered to be a "keeper" 35mm color print into my $99 scanner, and printed it on my $159 printer, and, with the exception of the fact that I used matte paper for the inkjet print, and glossy for the original, they looked the same!

No little dots of ink, pixels, grain, noise, whatever you want to call it, to be seen - anywhere!

And all this, just plugs into a neat little USB hub I got on my desk (computer doesn't have enough USB ports).

Last scanner I used, was an expensive SCSI model from a few years ago, that needed installation of a board into the computer, and other things...

With the matching HP printer, quality was mediocre.

And it was such a pain to use I abandoned it.

The new ones (by Epson) are soooo much better!

So you will be seeing photos of mine popping up over the next few weeks.

I'm hoping to put up a BIG review of my 2000 Med trip with perhaps hundred or more photos...

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Originally posted by gohaze:
NY...congrats. Now you can go broke keeping ink in the printer.
One of the best and certainly the cheapest in the long run is Canon. Some of their models use seperate tanks for each colour, so you have 4 altogether (there's an expensive one with 6) When you recharge each one when it runs out you realise how much expensive ink you have been throwing away. I get mine in bulk and find that of the colours, blue goes first followed by red and very little yellow.
Must have saved $1000s over the years.
...peter

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Canon makes very good printers in what you might call the "office machines" category. They now have a nice one called the S750 that's about $200 (US) and it is a good four color printer.

For real photo printing, just about everyone uses Epson. Firstly, they just make the best photo printers.

Secondly if you are into digital cameras (I'm not really, yet) all of the big brands (except Canon of course) have their cameras calibrated to print on Epson printers. They record numerous data in the memory card that the printer reads.

Other brands do not read this data, and you have to do a lot of "fiddling."

Epson ink (I don't know if this is also true of Canon, I know it is NOT true of HP) is instantly dry. Actually it takes 1/100th of a second to be completely dry. So if your paper starts stacking in the output tray, no smears, etc.

I could go on and on, but then I risk sounding like an advertisment (if I don't already).

Bottom line, I am very satisfied.

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