We had this comic on our fridge for many years. It was getting sadly faded. So, for a gift to my wife, I wanted to rejuvenate it.
With the Glowforge I could add some layering for depth, which really made it stand out, plus a compound frame. (No trompe l’oeil cheating this time; it has real layers!)
I did some preprocessing in an image editor before applying a vectorizer followed by hand editing. Then I printed it on fine art paper, mounted it on plywood, and cut out the shapes.
The stained walnut plywood frame was assembled from straight laser-cut lengths, instead of being simply cut out, so that the grain would be aligned with the direction of the lengths. A personal engraving is at the bottom.
Oh my - I really love this! I hadn’t seen that comic before, but it so fits me and my husband! I didn’t realize until the third pic that you’d done more than just the frame. I bet your wife was absolutely thrilled!
The comic backgrounds and figures were colored in the vector editor and printed on watercolor ink jet paper. The plywood walnut frame was darkened with a “Java” tint water-based wood stain.
