Pencil with coarse cross stripes / rings
The pencil with colored rings addresses the imprecision of free-hand drawing by providing a built-in scale for accurate scaling and proportion transfer, enabling flexible size adjustments.
Patent Information
- Application Number
- DE202024002431
- Authority / Receiving Office
- DE · DE
- Patent Type
- Utility models
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Filing Date
- 2024-12-20
- Publication Date
- 2025-04-30
- Estimated Expiration
- 2034-12-31
AI Technical Summary
Free-hand drawing techniques for capturing accurate proportions and scaling of objects are imprecise and require multiple measurements, limiting the ability to draw objects in sizes other than the measured size without losing proportions.
A pencil with 10-14 colored rings or cross stripes that serve as a scale to facilitate accurate scaling and proportion transfer directly onto a drawing sheet.
Enables precise and efficient scaling of drawn objects without additional aids, allowing for enlargement or reduction of sizes while maintaining proportional accuracy.
Abstract
Description
[0001] Artists, architects, and art and architecture students in particular are familiar with the difficulty that arises when drawing freehand: namely, sketching buildings or objects in the correct proportions. Freehand drawing serves to quickly visualize ideas, communicate designs, and quickly grasp proportions and perspectives.
[0002] To do this, a pencil is usually held at arm's length in front of one eye. The other eye remains closed. Using the thumb, the length of the object to be drawn is measured on the pencil and transferred to the drawing paper.
[0003] Typical problems arise when using this technique, such as inaccurate tracing. If you slip your thumb slightly while tracing the proportions, the building on the paper will suddenly look different than the original. This may require measuring certain lengths multiple times until the proportions look correct. In addition, this technique only allows for one size of representation. You can only draw at the size you traced with the pencil. Enlarging or reducing the tracing size is not possible, as the proportions would be lost without aids.
[0004] My solution to this problem is the pencil with 10-14 coarse, colored rings (horizontal stripes), which help to capture the proportions of objects and to scale them on the drawing paper.
[0005] The colored rings form a kind of scale, making it much easier and quicker to determine the size. This special pencil also allows you to scale the drawing using the rings, meaning you can draw larger or smaller than the actual size on the pencil. No additional tools are needed. If someone is inspired by a building, all they need to do is take out a pencil and a sheet of paper or a sketchbook from their bag.
Claims
[1] Pencil, characterized by that it was painted with 10-14 coarse rings (horizontal stripes).