D2G Report post Posted September 24, 2018 Hi every... Can someone explain to me how the drawing of the leaves is made, what technique can it be? Image ... http://s8.sinaimg.cn/mw690/001z4gKYgy6IE6ZKrxd17&690 More ... http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_557e05900101jt8v.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
battlemunky Report post Posted September 24, 2018 Holy cow, that is super cool and I have no idea how they did it! You are correct, that IS incredible. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted September 24, 2018 Simple airbrush work, OR these days, you could likely PRINT that directly onto the leather. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheilajeanne Report post Posted September 24, 2018 (edited) She does boots and shoes, too! http://blog.sina.com.cn/kayired Regardless of how it's done, she obviously has talent! Some closeup views of her work: look at those lovely smooth edges, and even stitching! Do you think they are hand-stitched or machine stitched? http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_557e05900101jt8v.html Second edit: I can see tooling marks around the border of some of the figures on the key wallets. Not the leaves, though. I am thinking those must be printed/silk screened directly on the leather. Third edit: as you get near the bottom of that page, you can see how she has taken traditional Sheridan design elements (scrolls, leaves, seeds) and added her own touches to them! I am VERY impressed with her work! When I opened the page, it asked if I wanted to translate it from Chinese, so I hit the 'translate' button. That means I can now read the comment section at the very bottom where she says she uses French veg tanned leather. She also says the leaves are printed on the leather. (The translation is pretty poor, but you can get the gist of most of it.) On exploring her site some more, I find out (no surprise!) she is an artist, and she has ONLY been doing leather carving for about 8 months!! She also carves wood (see the pea pods, balls, squirrel figure and acorns) and makes decorative wooden boxes. What a talent! Think I'll just slink back into my Neanderthal cave... Edited September 24, 2018 by Sheilajeanne Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
battlemunky Report post Posted September 24, 2018 Yeah, with talents like we see on here and out in the other reaches of the interwebs it is hard to even THINK of being good enough to even post something. I do it for the fun and the utility or else I'd have to sell all my tools and take up drinking. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheilajeanne Report post Posted September 24, 2018 Agreed, battlemunky! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cradom Report post Posted September 24, 2018 I love the pea pod zipper pulls/key fobs. Fantastic work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ScoobyNewbie Report post Posted September 25, 2018 No no Sheilajeanne, the Neanderthals need to stick it out. It’s us habilus that should hide, but I ain’t got da skill. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
D2G Report post Posted September 25, 2018 Find this page several months ago and browsing through it I will find the blog of the workshop where I take classes to make these leather works. I also think that it is with an airbrush or printer, the truth that after translating from Chinese to Spanish does not come to find out how it did, maybe it is the best kept secret after the formula of coca cola ha ha ha. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kiwican Report post Posted September 25, 2018 Good be digital printing. It's amazing to see what can be done now. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted September 26, 2018 Airbrush works, but doesn't have the speed of printing direct. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
battlemunky Report post Posted September 26, 2018 That's pretty cool stuff too @JLSleather Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheilajeanne Report post Posted September 26, 2018 kiwican, DG2, she says in her blog that the leaves are printed on the leather. Her other work is traditional leather carving - you can see some tool marks here and there if you look at it closely. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted September 26, 2018 12 hours ago, battlemunky said: That's pretty cool stuff too @JLSleather Takes a bit longer than printing Better pic ... you might recognize this as an OLD (1950's?) Al Stohlman carving design, only it's not carved, on a Tandy "free spirit" handbag style (cricket 1970-ish) .. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sheilajeanne Report post Posted September 26, 2018 Wow, nice work! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
battlemunky Report post Posted September 26, 2018 8 minutes ago, Sheilajeanne said: Wow, nice work! This. Thanks for the close up JLS! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted September 26, 2018 Preciatecha, but ABHANDMADE'S portrait makes these look .. well ... less Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
battlemunky Report post Posted September 26, 2018 His stuff is whole nuther level fuh sho. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LetterT Report post Posted September 27, 2018 (edited) This reminds me when I was young and a bit more idealistic, I used to write poetry. I even got published by the city. Then one of my school classmates wrote a poet that to me sounded and felt so much better then anything I wrote, I could never wrote another poem that made me satisfied with it, always felt it was subpar to what others write. Soon afterwards I stopped writing at all. Edited September 27, 2018 by LetterT Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
D2G Report post Posted October 8, 2018 Printing? That's no art, ha ha ha Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
