c4ck4 Report post Posted April 4, 2011 Hello, my name is John and I am a new leatherworker. I don't know when I started, I suppose the first thing I made was around August 2009. I've been messing with leather on and off since then. Recently in early March I decided to get more serious about my work and I opened an Etsy store to sell a few of my items. Since I am rather tech savvy I set up a blog, a brand, twitter, facebook fan page, etc to drive traffic to the Etsy store. I had so much fun doing that, that I forgot my work for a bit, but now I've been starting to get back to creating some items and really push my creative boundaries. Flickr doesn't allow direct image linking anymore so I'd need to switch all my content to photobucket to display it here but haven't done that yet, sorry about having the links go offsite. I would love critique of some of my early work, some of it can be found in the following locations: http://www.flickr.com/photos/c4ck4/ http://outlandforge.com http://outlandforge.etsy.com I've been lurking on these forums for probably 2 years or more, but this is my first post, glad to be here Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
c4ck4 Report post Posted April 10, 2011 I transferred all my photos to photobucket for inline linking reasons since I couldn't link to any of them directly in my previous post. Here are some of the types of things I've been working on. Critique, opinions, or advice would be welcome. I'm trying to figure out what kind of leatherwork is my favorite, and what to improve on as I'm just sort of stumbling my way into it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillB Report post Posted April 11, 2011 John, Welcome to the Forum. Interesting collection of items. Leatheroo does masks and you might want to look at some of her work. There are also several folks that do Steam Punk and some of the work look like that style. Glad you joined and I think you will find some kindred spirits here. Thanks for posting the pictures, it really helps in knowing what you are interested in. The free coffee and donuts are down the main hall and at the corner. BillB Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TwinOaks Report post Posted April 11, 2011 Welcome to Leatherworker.net, and stay away from the donuts with sprinkles! Clay's dog has already licked them.... Pull up a chair to the tooling bench and stay a while, we're pretty sure you'll like it here. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
c4ck4 Report post Posted April 15, 2011 Thanks for the suggestions, I'll look up some of that stuff. Inspiration always makes me want to start a new project! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
