Lionshead with wings bracer finished!

[Desiree]

I love the texture in the lion's face. Is that mostly done with a background tool?

[TomSwede]

Those look great!

Than you very much Tao, sorry for late reply.

Tom ,

These are beautiful. How do you get your eyelets so pristine?

kimber

Thank you Kimber!! Yeah eyelts have been discussed alot. The eyelet setter (the bottom pice) from Tandy is less than average in function. My solution: I have a marble tabletop so I just lay the leater with eyelets down on the table and give it a good whackin (about three blows) with the top part of the setter. I developed a feeling for when the eyelet is setttled okay since the marble is so hard, it lets me know through the hammershaft when it's done. To much force will flatten the eyelet ( I guess, haven't had that happen...yet).

I love the texture in the lion's face. Is that mostly done with a background tool?

Thank you very much Desiree!!!

There is no particlar texturing done in the face. I used a checkered beveler for major contours and modelled the rest with a regular modellingspoon (small). The eyebrows and eyelids is a bit "lifted" meaning I used the sharp edges of the spoon to cut inunder the conturs and raise them even a bit further to make more realistic eyes. The entire nose section is raised just a little bit to make it "pop out" a bit more. I used a larger modellingspoon for that wich was used to push out the leather from the fleshside. It doesn't protrude much but just gives it a little extra pop. Oh another thing..the whole lions face is painted with very diluted black dye (light grey is a more accurate term on the color) so maybe that contributes to what you feel is texture?? No antiques on the face, just handpainted with that grey color.

Tom

[Greybeard]

Nice work Tom!