8 x 8 Project

Fletcher’s 8x8 Project Reflection

For this project, I was given the freedom of making any sort of design I wanted

inside of Inkscape. I chose to make a gift for Mr. Ash that would have his name under a

picture of the comedy and tragedy masks. In order to do this easily, I looked online for a

simple clip art photo of the masks, put it into Inkscape, then separated a few of the

layers to have two different vector levels. I then made a rectangle with both the faces

and the text inside it to serve as the background.

My next step was to now laser cut the design. This proved to be the most

challenging part for me as I was not too familiar with using the laser as I had done more

projects that were focused around using the 3D printer. Figuring out which speed or

power to apply to each vector or raster layer was challenging for me but using the

printout examples next to the laser helped me out. Overall this project wasn't to

challenging but was still fun to do