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Thanks Cyber. I will do that for sure tonight when I get home. I will purchase the bundle also as that looks like a good deal. I have been trying to do some Victorian, Boroque style work at home on scrap. I think this style would be awesome to learn but tough to master .

Welcome to the community.

I was thinking intials too (thats why I said I think he called me that) as this community has been awesome and I have learned a lot from the people here. One of my friends blogs for a living (yes, he is a fulltime blogger lol) and told me DB usually means Douchebag if your typing it to someone. I will have to look for Arbalat to see some of his work. I love looking at everyones stuff here. To me its a goal to shoot for to try to make some things like I see here. Wscott-thanks lol. I think as long as you don't take what people say personally, having someone tell you what is wrong with something is great. It's easier for someone else to look at something you did or do and see the problems than for us ourselfs to see what is wrong, even if we know there are mistakes they will see more.

That came out looking great. I might have to try that too. It is pretty flat I agree because I didn't have any idea of how I was going to pull this off or how to try to do it. I am going to try this again. The area I have to work for is approx 4" long X 3" wide. I told him to get all the little detail may be difficult and he said to do what I can. He came by to check out what was done and loved it lol. He knows I am new to the whole leather thing so it was kind of cool that he said he liked it. I told him im going to start over and try to make it better. I practice all the time and want to improve. I take what people tell me and try to practice it. I figure the more I learn (everyone does things differently) the more well rounded I will become.

RavenAus, I was going to put his name minus the scroll underneath. I am going to probably re-do it and try again. I went out and bought some good acrylic paints and some good paint brushes yesterday and I will tool with the design and get it to grayscale as was suggested. The decorative cuts on the feather plumes are a good idea and I will practice that on a scrap peice a few times to see if I can altar the way it looks. I'm not to worried about people being nasty like the guy who I think called me a DB=DoucheBag. Typing tough guys I pay no mind too. I also knew that by posting this picture up I would probably get ripped (I knew there were a lot of mistakes) but like I said, critique it to death, be nasty if you want to but please put up some ways I could improve lol. I have a notepad that I write tips down in and then I try said tips to help me improve. Thank you for your words of encouragement and help

Thanks Lesking. I am running up to Michaels in about 15 minutes to get some good acrylic paint and some brushes. I also think I will look into the magnifying glass with the light, that's a great idea. Thanks again.

RavenAus, like was mentioned before I didnt think this out to well and I agree with that. I didnt even think of cutting a border (I probably should know to do that). Is it still possible to cut a border now or should I just try to make a card cutout like you suggested to make a uniform background on both sides and top? This is the image. I was having problems tracing it on scrap leather so I free hand cut everything but the shield.

Benlilly, thanks for the advice. I think I may try that instead.

When the design shrunk down to that size I pointed out the same thing and he said go with it lol. The whole time I'm doing it I was thinking the same thing!

I appreciate every critique I get. This is not a finished product just something I'm working on. Considering I have only been doing this for a month I know I need a lot of work on every aspect. As for the painting, how would you make the painting of something like this better? Critique is fine but improvement tips along with it would help! Thanks Gabriel By finished art I meant finished all the cutting I am doing to it.

Thanks. Db? What does that mean?

I have a friend who wanted his coat of arms on a wallet! I told him a book cover or tablet cover would be better due to the detail. He insisted on a wallet. Here is the finished art. I used acrylics I bought from tandys. I was going to use my airbrush but still hesitant about doing that. As usual, please critique and any tips, hints etc are welcome! Thanks Gabriel

Here are the patterns.

Phil, I put the pattern for this wallet up on one of my other posts. If you want it I can put. It up again.

That is amazing work.

Very nice!

That looks great. Very nice work.

Mike, that looks great. What type of color do you use and can you explain to me (<----- newb) the steps in coloring something like that?

Welcome to the best leather community site around. I too have served our country 10.5 years till I got medical discharged from an injury I obtained in Kandahar. Thanks for your service and stay sharp over there. I wish I would have learned how to work on leather while over there too. Good looking work, keep up the good job.

Exactly. If you don't try to do something you want to even though there is a risk you will never know if you could have ever done it.

That is great that at such a young age you took that plunge. We always said "Those who risk, win! Those who don't, complain"! I looked at your site and you do some very nice work. I may send some of my friends your way until I learn how to make holsters lol!!!

Billy, I would consider what you do a real job. You have a business and a shop. That to me is a real job and actually a lot harder than working for someone. I was a partner in a business out here that is still going strong but I got bought out when I went back overseas for the Military. Owning and running a business is in itself a real job, making all the things you do is a job in itself.

Groovy. I have a Stupid phone (iphone 4) and I found three different time trackers I will try to use to see which I like. One is called OfficeTime. It keeps track of time & expense and the other is called Time tracker pro and the other is HoursTracker.