Another Floral Design

[King's X]

Here is my second floral pattern that I designed for a thermos water bottle for my niece. I will be designing one for my sister's matching bottle. Any critiques are welcome!

[pete]

Extremely nice!! I'm STILL working on design and haven't done a thing yet that I want to show anyone to critique!!!

pete

[JLSleather]

That'll be sweet, I think. Maybe need to figger a way to tool the flower centers. Too many times I see folks tooling flowers all "laid back" like this, then they bash a big seeder that was intended to be viewed straight down, throws the whole carving out, makes an otherwise perfectly good carving look unnatural.

[King's X]

I have pretty much put the carving aside with the exception of my swivel knife practice to learn how to draw my own designs. I have collected a lot of flowers, leaves, junctures and vine drawings for my book that I work off. It seems to be going well so far for my basic designs. I hope to incorporate more multi flowers, leave and junctures soon. For now, I am keeping it basic for now.

Good luck.

[bex DK]

Basic is good! I like basic. Finding your drawings very inspirational and encouraging for doing more work of my own.

[RWB]

Looks good, King. Keep drawing and go ahead and start cutting it and trying to stamp it. No better time than the present to learn.

One thing that I see that I would suggest you change, is that all of your circles are independent of one another. They need to be connected. Take a look at Bob Park's or any other accomplished stampers work, and you will see that it is all one continuous line of stem work that flows through the entire piece. Sure directions change, but you should never have a flower and stem work that is not joined somehow to the rest of it. That's one of the tough parts of flower stamping, because if it is all one unit, like it's suppose to be, then that means space becomes much harder to fill. The reason is because you can't just move one independent circle over. If you do, with it being all one continuous flow, it will distort the entire design. Hope that helps. Keep drawing and practiceing it will come, and look at others work. Studying others is key.

Ross Brunk

www.nrcowboygear.com

[Storm]

Sam,

No critiuqe is needed here. Drawing your own patterns is a subjective experience. These patterns of yours are looking very good!!!!!   Keep it up bud.

Storm

P.S. Your niece is going to love it!

[King's X]

Thanks for the comments. That connecting 'thing' is complicating me, but I will work it out.