Karmindixie

Thank you for your feedback Bob, it is greatly appreciated!

Thank you both for your replies and advice. Bob, what you are saying definitely makes sense, and I will try to apply it in my next drawing. I have included a picture on this post of my latest drawing, which I did before reading your comment. I think the flow is better in this one, although I can see where you are right that it would look better if the vines were more uniform. Thank you for taking the time to explain to me. Tim, I will have a look at hidepounders work, thank you for posting pictures of your work, it is lovely. I definitely have a long way to go before I am near as skilled as anyone on this forum. I hope I can gain as much from leatherworker.net as you have, I have been doing a lot of reading on the site already and am finding it very informative. I only have a basic Tandy tool set right now as I don't want to invest too much money into tools until I am sure I am going to continue with leather working, but I do eventually plan to upgrade to better tools. Thanks again!

My apologies for the double post, it let me edit my first post last night but I can no longer find the edit option.. Not too good at this forum thing. Here is another pattern I drew this morning, similar to my first with some improvments. Any input would be greatly appreciated, thanks!

Sorry, it didn't attatch when I posted it, it's up now but it uploaded sideways for some reason and I'm not sure how to fix it..

Hi all, been lurking on the forum for some time dreaming of learning to carve leather and finally joined. Bought a basic tool set and am just waiting on some leather to start tooling! While I am waiting I decided to start drawing some Sheridan stuff, I absolutely love it and it is a large part of the reason I want to start tooling leather, so I really want to learn the mechanics of it. This is my very first attempt at it, I know it's pretty rough but I'm fairly happy with how it turned out. I can pick out a few things I'm not totally happy with but I would love some input from some more experienced eyes! Thanks