Etch-A-Sketch art

[Big_al]

This guy creates art on a Etch-A-Sketch

http://dawdles-per-day.blogspot.com/2007/06/etch-sketch-art.html

Talk about a lot of time required.

[Dutch Devil]

Impressive this guy sure got alot of skills and alot of time, looks very nice I never knew that Etch-A-Sketch was capable of making such detailed sketches.

[FATAL]

How does this etch-a-sketch even work? does one of the dials represent X axis and the other one Y axis, and then there's some mechanism to determine whether it draws or not?

[ace]

does one of the dials represent X axis and the other one Y axis, and then there's some mechanism to determine whether it draws or not?

Right about the X and Y axis, except that there's no mechanism to determine whether it draws or not--instead, you have to go back over what you had if you want to draw something connected to it elsewhere. Makes drawing with the infernal thing all the more difficult.

Very awesome stuff. Looks just a tad bit tedious, though. :p

[Kristian]

Always nice to see artistic expressions in not-often-used mediums (applies to e.g. sandcastle/ice sculpturing as well).

[blood imp]

Dang, he's good. A lot of time on his hands. If he could figure out a way of not letting the Etch-a-Sketch shake, then he could sell them. The best I've ever done was a proffesional looking maze, but that's relatively simple with a XY axis tool.

[FATAL]

Right about the X and Y axis, except that there's no mechanism to determine whether it draws or not--instead, you have to go back over what you had if you want to draw something connected to it elsewhere. Makes drawing with the infernal thing all the more difficult.
HERE IN FINLAND

We had much more usable tools. you actually had some "special pen" that you could use to draw on that one and you just had to pull one lever to clear it, not shake it like a loony.

[sLydE]

nice, I could barely even make a diagonal line that wasn't all retarded.

[Doom_Dude]

Now that is pretty cool. I remember another guy doing the same kind of thing on an Etch-A-Sketch which was shown on the TV a long time ago.

[Aliotroph?]

HERE IN FINLAND

We had much more usable tools. you actually had some "special pen" that you could use to draw on that one and you just had to pull one lever to clear it, not shake it like a loony.

We have those too. You're thinking of a Magna Doodle or whatever they call it over there. Etch-a-Sketch is different. The stylus just scrapes aluminum powder off the inside of the screen. You flip it and shake it to redistribute the powder back on -- it's got little beads to help with that. Those art guys drill holes in the back and take out the remaining powder so they don't lose their picture. :D

[Raptor Jesus]

I've always wondered how those things worked. xP

Too bad there aren't any pictures so I can't see :(

[ace]

Too bad there aren't any pictures so I can't see :(

Dial-up. HAHA! :p

Here's a shot of the finished work (after seeing so many videos of people making art in fast-forward, this is all I watched it for anyway ;)):

http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/8205/noname2bo3.png