Excel As A Drawing Tool?

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This is not so much an oddity, but an AMAZING feat.

One day I received a package from someone named Debbie Gewand. In the package, was a floppy disk that contained an Excel workbook. For some reason, I decided to open the file, and I was astounded by what I saw.

It turns out that Debbie is an artist, and she uses Excel as her primary drawing software (now that's odd!). The figure below shows an example. The image on the left was scanned from a catalog. The image on the right was created by Debbie, using Excel's drawing tools. The drawing consists of hundreds of individual shapes, combined together.

According to Debbie, "Most of my drawings do not take longer than two hours or four hours max to get the outlines done and the fill colors put in. I often use photographs that I've scanned and inserted into Excel, then I use the drawing tools to change the photographs into drawings. As you have already noticed I've become quite proficient at drawing on Excel, so it doesn't take me as much time as it did when I first started, now that I've figured out all the tricks.

More examples

Click the links below to see some more examples of Debbie's work.

• Example #2
• Example #3
• Example #4