Squalus Window

While I wait for my 5 pounds of solder to magically arrive from ebay, I thought I'd put a post up of the window desigining process.

This is for the squalus window, which will be a companion piece to my lupa window:

To start with, I printed out an image of the first window in balck and white on 8.5X11 printer paper, for size comparison and to keep the format very similar.

With a new piece of paper layered over this print out, I sketched out the full design of the window.  Generally I try to keep leading in mind but for the most part I will keep this sketchy and focus on the construction afterwards.

After making a copy of the sketch I go over the desired lead lines with permanent marker and white out the finer detail that will be decorative lead.

The combined image, the structural lead lines will be black, the decorative details are the thinner grey lines.

Now all I need to do is enlarge the cartoon and start cutting glass! The lupa window is currently in a show but luckily I have the original cartoon still kicking around in my basement.