My first shot at tooling.

This was my first shot at tooling a design. I took tracing paper and taped it to a regular sheet of paper and printed out the design. I placed the design on my scrap piece of leather with a flat metal ruler on top and clamped it all down lightly. This allowed me to flip the tracing paper up and down without it moving. I think just used a ballpoint pen to trace the design and between the pressure and ink it transferred it to the leather. Did my hand at carving, but couldn't really bevel it the way I want since I don't have any beveling tools small enough for the intricate parts. I wanted to bevel down all the white line portions from the print out.

The image was a chapter icon from a book series I started reading in the early 90's, The Wheel of Time.