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  1. Dani Girl

    Critique Request Recent “realistic” work

    My eye is drawn to and dislikes the 90 degree intersections in the shading or cross-hatching in the eye cavities. I am not instantly coming up with what would be better. It's great work
  2. Dani Girl

    Printable drawings for practice plates

    SO, what is the rule, if it's more than 100 years old what i'm tracing that would be OK?
  3. Dani Girl

    Printable drawings for practice plates

    I thought I would share some tracings I have been doing for study purposes that I thought might be of use for new engravers starting out. I'm not sure whose work each belongs to, some old some new, some big names in engraving. Would this be OK or would I put noses out of joint putting high...
  4. Dani Girl

    Some recent work

    Those grapes look great and the script is super clean. nice
  5. Dani Girl

    practice

    Just having a go on my phone on my Concepts app at figuring out how I'd engrave this carving design, might be of interest. Hope I'm not high jacking your thread. Just wanted to share what I've been doing to figure out shading more. I thought I knew what I was doing then tried wood carving...
  6. Dani Girl

    practice

    This would engrave beautifully too, you could do inlay inside https://pin.it/57hanJb
  7. Dani Girl

    practice

    I was just thinking it might help to have a look at what sort of things one might be trying to imitate in 2d with some woof carving pictures. Having trouble trying to find the right photos :) https://pin.it/1wDqDir This scrollwork would translate well to engraving and reminds me of Sam...
  8. Dani Girl

    I customized my phone case.

    Now that's cool, awefully well done too. How's it held on?
  9. Dani Girl

    Marius Mellebye - EngraverHand Designs and Artwork

    beautiful engraving sir
  10. Dani Girl

    Keen novice

    welcome
  11. Dani Girl

    Buying and Selling Rules?

    how badly do castings come out without getting a vacuuming shaking tank gizmo?
  12. Dani Girl

    Buying and Selling Rules?

    im super shy, talk hard to understand, don't know how... if you want some tips and then have a go at that idea yourself though, or is anyone else keen?
  13. Dani Girl

    Hoping for Inlay Tips

    Further regarding this knife and my difficulty with the inlay point chipping off or getting virtually no undercut grooves at all. I decided to yank it out of the block which was easier than expected. I found the thermo loc hadn't melted to it at all but was just loosely rattly sitting there...
  14. Dani Girl

    Just finished

    That's beautiful Sam.
  15. Dani Girl

    Buying and Selling Rules?

    maybe I could try listing some engravings for sale here, doubt anyone would buy, but maybe someone would value the work here.
  16. Dani Girl

    Printer

    Here's one of their many videos. I've been having some fun with getting some clothes printed out with my drawings on. Here's some examples.
  17. Dani Girl

    Printer

    Mitch. I took this as rhetorical. I wish to transfer higher quality because A. I like engraving some animals and such and my drawing is not so good, so I get enjoyment from engraving from a good transfer (at 1200dpi you can see where they eyes go and put some good marks down for where his...
  18. Dani Girl

    Printer

    I had a learning curve using it. point one being if you want to work in vector use the far left eraser called SLICE if you use Soft mask which is an eraser with soft edges or hard mask which is an eraser with hard edges then when you export to vector all eraser marks show as white blobs in...
  19. Dani Girl

    Printer

    I've found another print setting under the normal print settings that says use system info, I can double the dpi from 600 to 1200. I don't think I'll get better than that. happy
  20. Dani Girl

    Printer

    the app does some good videos including one about making a floor plan which explains scaling well I've been setting the bed to A4 and stretching and shrinking the engraving design to the size I want. you can select MEASURE and then the size of your strokes displays as you draw them. I draw a...

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