Home Made Projection Box

And now for something completely different...

It can be fun to work with large scale projects, but when trying to create something based off a photograph, proportions can become a little wonky and can affect the overall outcome. I ran into this problem during college and living in a small dorm, I didn't have a lot of options as to how I could fix this. At home I would have used my Dad's projector but of course I didn't have anything like that, so I decided I would make my own. All I used was a box, a lamp, a sandwich bag, and black paint. I looked at a few tutorials online but I made most of this up. Basically light goes through one side of the box, and shines against the bag with my drawing on it, then ta da! projection success! 

The projector box, that window is where the drawing was placed

You can see I used a special lamp that went through a much smaller opening

The final projection. Of course not my best work in terms of drawing but I just needed a guide. later I set this up over the large paper I was working on and made a quick sketch. I was sad to take it apart at the end of the semester but it was so easy to make, I know I'll definitely be making one of these again.