Sheridan help

[Lonecreek]

Hey y'all, I've been tooling for a year or so, and lately have been trying to get the Sheridan down. Please let me know what y'all  think. Thank you.

[ConradPark]

I can't see any picture of the tooled leather.

[Thor]

2 hours ago, ConradPark said:

I can't see any picture of the tooled leather.

Cause he's obviously looking for help with the design. 

In general I think it looks okay. There are a few things I believe could be improved. The center flower seems to be smaller than all the others. I think it should be the same size or larger. The vine work usually has no real end along the stems but yours does several times. The right side seems to be more fluent and better designed while the left side doesn't. Especially the background areas are larger on the left than on the right. Fixing the vine work lines a bit should do the trick. Also check the upper right hand corner. It looks like this vine work is coming from out of nowhere, cause 2 lines don't really fit in there.

The best design to me is your bottom right.

There's a great book by Bob Park (Hidepounder) https://www.facebook.com/Bob-Park-Custom-Leather-131291347030087/ this should solve most of your design issues.

[Lonecreek]

16 hours ago, ConradPark said:

I can't see any picture of the tooled leather.

So just drawing a pattern on paper isn't tooling leather? Damn, I've been going about this all wrong.....

[Lonecreek]

13 hours ago, Thor said:

Cause he's obviously looking for help with the design. 

In general I think it looks okay. There are a few things I believe could be improved. The center flower seems to be smaller than all the others. I think it should be the same size or larger. The vine work usually has no real end along the stems but yours does several times. The right side seems to be more fluent and better designed while the left side doesn't. Especially the background areas are larger on the left than on the right. Fixing the vine work lines a bit should do the trick. Also check the upper right hand corner. It looks like this vine work is coming from out of nowhere, cause 2 lines don't really fit in there.

The best design to me is your bottom right.

There's a great book by Bob Park (Hidepounder) https://www.facebook.com/Bob-Park-Custom-Leather-131291347030087/ this should solve most of your design issues.

Thank you, the flowers I'm horrible at. Vines have come a long ways but definitely still need some work . I bought one book by Pete Gorrell " floral pattern drawing for the artistically impaired." It helped quite a bit but I've heard Bob Parks name get brought up quite a bit.