Couple More Practice Pieces

[eagle6977]

Hope all are doing well. Have a couple of practice pieces that I have done. Would like tips on what could be done to make them better.

Thank you all for any advice you care to give.

John

[Wishful]

The only tip I would suggest is smoothing out your beveling. Otherwise, nice. The dragon tail scales look pretty good.

[Jazznow]

Hi

The dragon looks awesome. Love the look f the scale. Did you cut them with swivel knife?

Can't say anything about the floral one, cause I don't know anything about floral carving.

[eagle6977]

Thank you for the tip. As far as the scales goes I used a U859 mule foot and a modeler to put the little dent on the back end of each scale.

[Murf]

What tool did you use on the background around the dragon? i see this done alot, and i cant seem to figure out what tool that is.

[eagle6977]

Murf I used a P 206 a smooth pear shader. Taking hitting it at different angles , spinning it around, and striking it with varying firmness. Hope that helps you out some, happy tooling.

John

[WScott]

Scales are awesome on the dragon

Nice job!

[resqman]

I would say there is almost too much patterned tooling in the rosen piece. A smooth beveler for the roses themselves would have added just enough untextured leather for better contrast with the overall piece.