Abstract: A device for aiding a user in drawing an image of an object includes a clear plate and a frame fitting over the shoulders of the user and holding the plate at a location where the object can be drawn on a clear drawing medium attached to the plate while it is viewed through the clear plate and through the clear drawing medium.

Abstract: An apparatus for a dynamic foreshortening visual aid. A manikin having articulated limbs and a poseable torso and neck is located in space in fixed dynamic natural and unnatural positions for viewing by a comic book artist. Variable orientation connectors are applied between the manikin and a flexible rod and/or between the flexible rod and a base plate or clamp. The manikin is removeably connected to the flexible rod such that various figures are used with a single flexible rod and base plate. A visual aid having multiple manikins that are viewed interacting with each other is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method and system for creating perspective drawings on a preferably curved drawing surface. An easel and a drawing surface are provided. The artist securely positions his head at a central point relative to the drawing surface and looks past an edge of the drawing surface at an object to be drawn, thereby creating an illusion of a transparent margin of the drawing surface overlapping the object. The object is then traced onto the transparent margin of the drawing surface. The traced-upon margin is cut off and removed from the drawing surface, thereby creating a new transparent margin. These steps are repeated on the new transparent margin until all of the drawing surface is used. The cut-up pieces of the drawing surface are reassembled to form a complete image. The easel includes structure that allows the artist to position an eye at the center point of the drawing surface.

Abstract: A method and system for creating perspective drawings on a preferably curved drawing surface. An easel and a drawing surface are provided. The artist securely positions his head at a central point relative to the drawing surface and looks past an edge of the drawing surface at an object to be drawn, thereby creating an illusion of a transparent margin of the drawing surface overlapping the object. The object is then traced onto the transparent margin of the drawing surface. The traced-upon margin is cut off and removed from the drawing surface, thereby creating a new transparent margin. These steps are repeated on the new transparent margin until all of the drawing surface is used. The cut-up pieces of the drawing surface are reassembled to form a complete image. The easel includes structure that allows the artist to position an eye at the center point of the drawing surface.

Abstract: A perspective painting aid assembly includes a plate that has hemispherical shape and a concave inner surface. A vertical support is attached to the plate. A rigid canvas has generally a same size and shape as the inner surface is positionable against and covers the inner surface. A perimeter cover is removably placed adjacent to a perimeter edge of the plate and extends over and along the perimeter edge. The perimeter cover releasably retains the canvas in abutment with the plate. The perimeter cover has an opening therein aligned with the canvas. Art indicia are positioned on the canvas.

Abstract: The present invention is a handheld artist's aid designed to allow a freehand artist to establish horizontal fidelity, proportionality, subject scale, subject placement and angular relationships of a three-dimensional subject that is to become a two-dimensional work. It incorporates a visual leveling device in addition to a series of reference grids imposed there on. It is not designed as a copying or reproduction tool, but rather as an artist's aid that allows the artist freedom of expression yet frames the work within the physical reality of the structure. It is designed with multiple sized grids such that its use, can be enabled within the arms length of any artist.

Abstract: The invention relates to freehand drawing tools and, specifically, to an improved device for training and guiding aspirant and accomplished artists to produce accurate freehand drawings. The device facilitates using the technique of correlating a visual image to a reference grid and drawing a representation of the image on a drawing surface with a proportionally identical grid. The device comprises a series of sighting grid plates through which a subject to be drawn is viewed, a series of grid transfer stencils used to set a similar grid on a drawing surface, a means for supporting the sighting grid plates in position to be looked through by an artist viewing a subject, and a means for applying a color contrasting substance to the drawing surface through the holes in the grid transfer stencils.

Abstract: The present invention features a method and an article of manufacture for directly attaching silicon chips to circuit carriers. Both the method and the article of manufacture feature a dissolvable, thin wafer that is soldered first to the chip and then to the circuit board, completing the connection. The wafer article consists of embedded, spaced-apart, flexible wires that fit the connection footprints of both the chip and the carrier board. The wafer is fashioned from a matrix block having a heat-resistant, dissolvable substance which encapsulates the wires. The matrix is cut into thin slices that are wafer-thin. Each slice or wafer of the matrix carrier is then attached to a chip, using solder with an appropriate melting temperature that is thermally compatible with the chip. The solder attaches one end of the embedded wires to the chip.

Abstract: An educational and entertaining anaglyphic drawing device for producing complementary colored anaglyphic drawings on a copy sheet that will appear three dimensional when viewed through 3-D glasses having a first lens approximately red in color and a second lens approximately blue in color. The device comprises a stencil sheet with component stencil designs which when taken together form a composite stencil design of the first eye view and the second eye view of a stereogram. Associated with the stencil sheet is a register so the stencil designs can be successively aligned in register on the copy sheet and the designs transferred by penciling around the stencil design with drawing instruments. The first eye view of the stereogram is transferred in a green-blue color; and the second eye view is transferred in a red-orange color. A coordinated register allows different stereograms stencil designs to be combined so that different three dimensional objects appear to intersect with each other.

Abstract: The instant device is a drawing aid consisting of a transparent window plate receivable by a detachable handle that folds upon itself, which transparent window plate has a small hole in it through which flexible wire to which a clip is attached is threaded and further which transparent window plate is hingeably attached at one side to one end of a straightedged rod hingeably attached at its other end to a second straightedged rod.

Abstract: An artist's drawing aid comprises a screen through which a three dimensional object can be observed. The screen is transparent allowing the object to be traced onto the screen using an eye piece to hold the eye position stationary. When traced, the object can be transferred to a translucent sheet of paper by placing the paper over the screen and by illuminating the screen through one edge so as to illuminate the traced lines. The screen is mounted on a easel construction with a shield above the screen. Edge illumination can be effected by a light bulb or by a cylindrical lens mounted on the edge of the screen and movable transversely of the edge to properly direct ambient light into the screen.

Abstract: A kit for creating perspective drawings, teaching the creation of perspective drawings and method for making the same. The kit provides a pair of perpendicular supports, with the upright support having a transparent portion formed therethrough. A number of geometric objects are placed onto the flat support and are illuminated by a light source. The perspectives of the objects cast are captured by an appropriately-positioned screen. A sighting device is provided to focus the perspectives of the objects cast. A means for recording a copy of the perspective viewed onto the transparent window is further provided.

Abstract: A drawing aid for use in making drawings in perspective, having at least one transparent chart unit with proper angle, distance and height scales needed for making drawings in perspective. A drawback of known drawing aids of this kind is that they have been provided with scales which are exceedingly difficult to read and that, in the course of drawing, auxiliary lines are invariably produced which clutter up the drawing. The chart unit of the invention has a first chart corresponding to the horizontal plane and marked with radial angles and arcs corresponding to distance, a second chart corresponding to the vertical plane and marked with radial angles and vertical lines corresponding to distance, and an image plane chart corresponding to the image plane, the latter usually serving as a drawing substrate with coordinates consistent with the angle scales of the first and second charts.

Abstract: A cosmetic and observer line of sight mirror which includes a mirror having two sets of orthogonal lines with one set substantially horizontal and disposed over the face of the mirror or about the edge thereof to facilitate application of cosmetics to produce a balanced effect and enable movement of the mirror through selected angles about a horizontal axis to afford the user an image corresponding to the user's appearance observed by another at a selected distance and elevation. The mirror may also be provided with supporting means for leveling the mirror and include a scale calibrated in terms of elevation and distance of an observer.

Abstract: A transparent perspective hand-held tracing board is shown for use with a sheet of transparent drawing material. This board is formed of a rigid plastic or glass panel. A measured pattern is imprinted on the panel to assist in judging distance and relative angles. A supporting handle is mounted from one side edge of the panel for use by one hand in holding the panel in space so that an object being drawn at a distance may be sighted both through the drawing material and the board, and the angle and distance of the board may be adjusted to fit on the said measured patterns so the object may be traced on the drawing material.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for simulation of projected image comprising a support member, a frame and an eye member attached respectively to the opposite ends of the support member. The relation between the size of the frame and the distance from the frame to the eye hole in the eye member is similar to the relation between the size of the projected image and the distance from the surface of the projected image to the viewer's seats. When the user looks through the eye hole at a given original and finds the contents of the image discernible, he is assured that a projection film to be produced by photographing the image enclosed with the frame, on being projected on a screen, will reproduce an image amply discernible by the viewers.