USFA Stickers

[forethought]

I'm trying to put together a design for my club (we're trying to get warm-ups) and I'm looking for some images of weapon silhouettes, and I was thinking about the stickers the USFA used to send people in the mail with their membership card, but alas I cannot find mine. Does anyone have access to these in digital form, Google has thus far been less than fruitful

[oiuyt]

You might want to look for artwork which you've created, someone has created for you, someone has explicitly given you permission to use, or which is in the public domain.

A web search for "'public domain' images fencing" will yield hits that might have something you can use.

-B

[sabrefencer93]

Actually i just got mine in the mail, i can scan it and send it to you if you would like.

[fdad]

Actually i just got mine in the mail, i can scan it and send it to you if you would like.

I think Brad's point was that the OP should not be using someone else's image without legal permission. You probably shouldn't be helping the OP to do so.

[TodG]

Here's some royalty free images:

http://www.clker.com/clipart-fencing-foil.html

[migopod]

You could also pose weapons in positions you like, photograph them with a digital camera and use Illustrator or some other vector graphics tool to trace the outlines and fill with a solid color. The advantages there are that it's pretty easy to do, you own the images, you get to decide the angles and positions and it's losslessly scalable so you can blow it up as big as you want with no jagged edges.

[forethought]

Here's some royalty free images:

http://www.clker.com/clipart-fencing-foil.html

Heh, I actually found those going off a modified search of what oiuyt posted earlier. I think the thicker handles and guards for the foil and epee will help, considering these will probably be stitched and not printed. Thanks!

[migopod]

I just cooked these up in about 15 minutes using Inkscape (didn't feel like booting the mac). They're intended as an example of the method I described, but if you want to use them as is, I waive any claim to copyright.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/98014/fencing_weapons.png

EPS for use with inkscape, illustrator or similar

Process to recreate with photos you prefer: Import photo and trace contour with pen tool. Edit your bezier curves as desired. Inkscape isn't Illustrator, but for simple curve editing, it does the job acceptably well. It's also GPL and free-as-in-beer and available for Linux, OS X and (god forbid) Windows.

Since they're vector graphics (the eps anyhow), you can scale and position the elements however you want and not get artifacts or other distortions associated with scaling bitmap images.

[forethought]

Thank you, kind sir!