soyuki

To distract myself while my card mat is drying, wanted to share some of my latest works. They're nothing too fancy, just stuff I'm hoping to sell! Ignore my hairy roommate.

I appreciate you guys trying to help. I will have to scrounge up some money to stop in at lowe's for Oxalic acid as it may be my only hope.

So I was working on this mat, and my initial dye was beautiful - However, in my zeal to make a good card playing mat that is supple and flexable, I applied some EVOO and it got far... far too dark - (Sorry for the crummy photo, the phone hates that it's dark.) I've had luck in the past drawing out dye with water making some nice effects but I can't get this one to lighten up, I'm assuming because of the oil. I don't want to lose the suppleness but the linework is invisible with it being this dark. Any help would be very appreciated. I'd rather not paint this, since I burned in the lines.

Thank you very much! I'll have to snag one of those as it would make things 100% easier for me :3

I was looking up patterns for making deck boxes and stumbled across this video: And was wondering, at 1:22, what tool he is using. At first I thought it was a tattoo gun but it's almost like an automatic tooling machine. I would love to know what it is as it would allow me to more easily put my artwork onto leather and it just looks cool. Also if anyone has a pattern like his that they wouldn't mind sharing. I am good at drawing but terrible managing 3-d spaces >_<