Hello from Southern Illinois

[Blurble]

Greetings all!

I first found this forum maybe a year ago, then lost it, and was very happy to stumble upon it again just recently. I'm into tooling and figure carving, particularly tooling hardened leather armor which is what got me into leather work in the first place.

I haven't finished a lot yet, a combination of perfectionism and being easily distracted makes for very slow progress, but here are a few pictures of my latest finished piece, a bracer with a knotty hydra, waterformed and hardened with water and rabbit hide glue.

I haven't yet had the chance to learn leatherwork in person, so I'm looking forward to being able to tap the collective knowledge of this forum to solve some puzzles and make some technique breakthroughs.

Thanks!

-=ErikB

[UKRay]

Welcome to the forum ErikB. There are a lot of great folks here that will go out of their way to help you and answer your questions.

Now I have a question for you: You did a really nice job on the bracer - what background tool did you use?

Best wishes,

Ray

[King's X]

Welcome to the forum. Nice work!

[ArtS]

Welcome Erik. That really looks cool. Almost like a tattoo!

Art

[Blurble]

Thanks, all!

UKRay: It's A104 and family. That stamp is pretty much singlehandedly responsible for my getting into leathercrafting - I saw some armor with a large area backgrounded with it and it was the first time I'd really seen anyone do anything texturally interesting with armor.

Art: Thanks! The first one I did I made the background black, but I left it natural on this one and I really like the contrast it gives a lot more.

[Corvus]

Hi! Nice work, I like the colouring especially.

[Greybeard]

Very Cool! Nice artwork.