Trying Something New

[WScott]

I think you are courageous to post and ask for critique, especially on something so hard.

I was trying to make a St Patrick's Day lapel out of leather and totally muffed it up. I won't show it to my dog!

I think the "DB " comment was someone signing their initials

Cheers

[bissetdesign]

Wow thats even smaller than what I had to work with, good luck with it Gabriel, I think its a difficult one for a novice to do as its a very small area to get so much detail into it.

Theres a guy on here, think he's called Arbalat or similar who does amazing fine detail work , really inspirational detailed work too.

....PS I'm not sure Greystone was implying you are a 'douchebag', I think that might be his initials as his post was quite complimentary & he was signing off db, maybe needs clearing up

[aguilerag]

I was thinking intials too (thats why I said I think he called me that) as this community has been awesome and I have learned a lot from the people here. One of my friends blogs for a living (yes, he is a fulltime blogger lol) and told me DB usually means Douchebag if your typing it to someone.

I will have to look for Arbalat to see some of his work. I love looking at everyones stuff here. To me its a goal to shoot for to try to make some things like I see here.

Wscott-thanks lol. I think as long as you don't take what people say personally, having someone tell you what is wrong with something is great. It's easier for someone else to look at something you did or do and see the problems than for us ourselfs to see what is wrong, even if we know there are mistakes they will see more.

[Cyberthrasher]

I'm late to the game here, but since you're still practicing it, I wanted to point you to Paul Burnett's tutorial on victorian work. A careful study of his freebie (and possibly the whole course if you have the money) would really bring this piece along. If you look at the Victorian course, there's an aside at the bottom that has a link to the "leather carving bundle" which includes 5 courses for $50 - Well worth it!!!

Once you get into the free tutorials, it's "Victorian Project #1". Go over the tutorial on modeling tools while you're at it, since you'll need it for such a small piece.

http://paintingcow.com/content/index.php/publications/free_lesson_sign_up/

[aguilerag]

Thanks Cyber. I will do that for sure tonight when I get home. I will purchase the bundle also as that looks like a good deal.

I have been trying to do some Victorian, Boroque style work at home on scrap. I think this style would be awesome to learn but tough to master

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[Cyberthrasher]

I have been trying to do some Victorian, Boroque style work at home on scrap. I think this style would be awesome to learn but tough to master.

I've been wanting to incorporate it into some of my own style, so I got a bunch of the Dover Publications victorian books from Amazon to study and pull designs from. They're all copyright free and they're beautiful work to study. I have a close friend who's one of the top engraver's in the world, so I tend to be inspired by his work quite a bit, a lot of which contains classical "graver scrolls" that you find in these prints.

[aguilerag]

Lucky you to know someone like that. Good source of insperation and advice if you need it.

I have a few of the books as well and that is what I have been using. I also have some of those rennaisance ornament design books that have very nice old fashion style.