In The Eye Of A Horse

[DoubleC]

from a picture of my horse. I apologize for my picture, I know it's blurry, as all mine are unless taken from a distance. I don't have my scanner hooked to this yet but will get another picture when I ever do. Anyway I went for it all, LOL, everything I've heard people talking about on here, like undercutting. I want you're honest opinion; you don't even have to be nice, LOL

[Ferg]

You are going to need to do a lot better with your photo than what you have. Impossible to see anything much.

The photo is pixelated.

ferg

from a picture of my horse. I apologize for my picture, I know it's blurry, as all mine are unless taken from a distance. I don't have my scanner hooked to this yet but will get another picture when I ever do. Anyway I went for it all, LOL, everything I've heard people talking about on here, like undercutting. I want you're honest opinion; you don't even have to be nice, LOL

[SheWolfSilver]

You can't tell anything from the picture. I was very excited to see it too.

[DoubleC]

You are going to need to do a lot better with your photo than what you have. Impossible to see anything much.

The photo is pixelated.

ferg

I know Ferg. I'm transferring my all-in-one right now, but couldn't find the installation disc so having to download everything from Epson. I I'll and have a better photo up tomorrow. Thanks for looking. Cheryl

[DoubleC]

You can't tell anything from the picture. I was very excited to see it too.

I'm really sorry She....better one tomorrow after I get my scanner set up. Cheryl

[DoubleC]

Ok, the scanner hooked up and a new pic straight off the press......Thanks, Cheryl

[Sylvia]

Ok, the scanner hooked up and a new pic straight off the press......Thanks, Cheryl

"Sometimes I feel like.... somebody's watching meeeeee...."

Sorry... it made me think of that song.

[DoubleC]

"Sometimes I feel like.... somebody's watching meeeeee...."

Sorry... it made me think of that song.

You crack me up woman!

[Tree Reaper]

That's the thing with working on leather carvings for the first time and not getting the proper instruction to help you advance.

I'm just as new to carving and my experience is the same, don't expect to get it right the first time.

That eye has a lot of surface area and appears flat because the leather is flat.

One thing you can try is to raise the eye from the back side with a rounded tool large enough so that is doesn't leave small marks in the leather or maybe a modeling spoon.

Keep thinking and trying different methods on scrap until you get what you want or a result that you are happy with.

I have your picture so I can experiment on it a bit, not that I know what I'm doing but it's hopefully better than no help at all.

Kevin

At 1 I think you need to bevel the eyeball to get rid of that sharp edge and at 2 I think that needs to be cut and beveled in the same manner.

It's not that far out when looking at it when made smaller and a little tweaking is all it needs but do it on scrap first, that's what I learned on the dog carving.

Edited January 14, 2012 by Tree Reaper

[DoubleC]

That's the thing with working on leather carvings for the first time and not getting the proper instruction to help you advance.

I'm just as new to carving and my experience is the same, don't expect to get it right the first time.

That eye has a lot of surface area and appears flat because the leather is flat.

One thing you can try is to raise the eye from the back side with a rounded tool large enough so that is doesn't leave small marks in the leather or maybe a modeling spoon.

Keep thinking and trying different methods on scrap until you get what you want or a result that you are happy with.

I have your picture so I can experiment on it a bit, not that I know what I'm doing but it's hopefully better than no help at all.

Kevin

At 1 I think you need to bevel the eyeball to get rid of that sharp edge and at 2 I think that needs to be cut and beveled in the same manner.

It's not that far out when looking at it when made smaller and a little tweaking is all it needs but do it on scrap first, that's what I learned on the dog carving.

Oh for heaven's sake, I had to come back and edit because I downloaded your pic of the eye and was going to copy and paste what you said and I missed all of the first part. Thank you Kevin, it is hard when you are trying to figure out by trial and error and any help you can give will be greatly appreciated. I'm going to let you see the picture I went from, that might help.

All of these are pretty much scrap conchos. I started out making blinged up leather concho sets that no one wanted so now I have tons left over.

You're quite right about the two places, and it really looks like an eye on the 2" concho, LOL or if not turned right, pop art done badly. I drew it all first, and then tried to use my beveler but it was going to mash my other things. so I ended up using a utility knife and pushed the edge back with a nail. Actually I made the whole thing with a stylus, utility knife, small round metal concho and nail. I guess I'm saving all my tools for something else :-) The same thing happened with the eyelashes like I told you, didn't pre plan so ended up having to carve and paint them 4 times and and not so well by number 4. I learned a lot about carving as far as PLANNING on this. On the pic I was looking at it was 2 dimensional, and I didn't realize that to carve this, I needed to do it in layers, or stages or something.

Kevin what do you do your cutting with before you bevel it? I had just heard about 'undercutting' on here and wanted to try it on here. I learned it's not with a utility knife and nail :-) Thank you so much for the help. Cheryl

Edited January 14, 2012 by DoubleC