Quote Originally Posted by norsecarnut View Post
Great thread of ideas. Many remind me of my early days airbrushing surfboards and then later in design school inllustrating a car or other object with markers and gouache. Both of these methods required steady but fluid movements and neither could really be re-done very well if you screwed up.

There are other similarities in sculpture processes with stone and wood where you have to be braced but loose for torso movements.
I pretty sure there's some aspect of "Tai Chi" type movements involved. Slow fluid movements where your shifting your weight and torso bracing around. I can see where similar principles apply to a whole lot of other crafts. I watched a guy do some pin stripping on a nice hot rod one time and remember thinking that a lot of his technique would lend it's self to certain welding situations.