How to draw other things than sheridan?

[Northman]

Hi, I am wondering how you actually draw other things than sheridan?
There must be differences in how a drawing intended to be stamped on leather of for example people or landscape looks differently than a drawing that you put a frame on and hang on the wall?
Please show pictures of your drawings so that i can understand what I should be drawing.
I understand that you can take a painting as it is and stamp it on to leather, but i onestly dont want to waste so much time in making a perfect picture when there is no need for it.
/Daniel

[TonyRV2]

Do a google search for line art or line drawings for inspiration.

 

[Northman]

Thanks, that was very helpful.

[Colt W Knight]

I trace photos

[Willie0]

I like to save copies of symbols or line drawings to Word in order to resize them.

[cowboycolonel]

Gte one of F. O. Baird's books, or Al Stohlman's. Check out Pete Gorrell's Floral Pattern Drawing for Dummkies. Don't feel constrained.  Do what feels good to you. 

[Beret]

I draw all my own patterns. I create my full-color design digital mockups in AI, then convert the vector design to linework to make my pattern and adjust accordingly for cut lines, other lines, etc. 

 

 

[billybopp]

It may sound silly, but a good source of drawings for leather is ... Coloring books!  I've used a number of "adult" coloring books for patterns and inspiration in tooling leather.  Particularly useful has been a Celtic book with a number of knots, animal designs and other.  They can be reduced in size (or increased if need be) on a copier or scanned and reduced.   Works great!  I'd draw my patterns myself, but somehow leather stick figures just won't work so well.

Bill

[Grey Drakkon]

@Beret you Goblin King'd, that is awesome.

[bikermutt07]

Just a heads up.....

Raysouth has a set of tooling books for sale in the ads section.