practice plate

[jacques herbst]

here is a practice plate that i just finished.its for a competition on Steve's site with gravers and a lap up for grabs.

 

[Weldon47]

Very Nice Work! Good luck in the compitetion!!

Weldon

 

[Champs Art]

Amazing, beautiful engraving!
How many hours were you working on this one?
Greetings , Johan the Netherlands

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hi Jacques

The design and execution is superb!!!!!! I really like it. You've done some really interesting things there with your backgrounding.

That is by far your best yet. It wasn't that long ago you were asking questions about fine line shading.

Just beautiful

Cheers
Andrew

 

[Tim Wells]

You got my vote. I like everything about it. Dang good composition and scroll work that'll wake you up. I need to go to the shop now and throw all my stuff in the trash.

 

[jmcutting]

Beautifully done! I love the flower at the bottom!

-justin

 

[jacques herbst]

Greetings Johan it took 3 days to draw and 6 to cut that is in the time i have in the day for engraving not full time.wish i did not have to work and could spend more time on engraving.thank you guys for the kind words.the questions will never stop they might just get stranger

 

[John B.]

Amazing piece of work Jaques.
Just wonderful.
John B.

 

[Dave London]

Excellent what else can I say, Dave

 

[SamW]

Very well done indeed Jacques. Makes me wonder how many great photos I have taken over the years of my fingerprint. Sorry, just couldn't help myself...I have done that many times. S

 

[Andy]

Jacques.....You remind me of Andrew. Every time you post something it shows improvement over your previous posts. You show an extreme level of tool control for such a short period of time. You have obviously been doing a lot of practice. I like the composition as a whole very much. Your artwork is advancing rather well also. Keep up the fantastic work.

 

[cowboy_silversmith]

Thouroughly awesome work!!! I can't help myself....I have to keep staring!!!

Best regards,
Greg Pauline

 

[Sam]

Jacques, that's one heck of a fine piece of engraving. Congratulations!

 

[Tezash]

Hi Jacques,

This is nice practice plate, you are almost there, keep it up. There is a lots of improvement in this one.
Tez.

 

[jlseymour]

Jacques,
Makes me want to spend more time with a graver in my hand...
Fantastic!!!
JL Seymour

 

[Abigail]

Wow! Very nice!
Abigail

 

[Peter E]

By FAR the best work i've seen you post Jacques. As was stated, your work has improved very much.

Congratulations are definitely deserved.

Well done.

Peter

 

[Doc Mark]

Jacque,

SUPER DESIGN AND EXECUTION! I have one question though. Is the "crosshatched' background relieved or did you shade the background to make the scrollwork look as if it's raised? Ok, two questions! If it is relieved first, how did you do the crosshatching so clean in a depessed surface without "nicking" the scroll outlines? However you did it, I'm impressed!

Mark

 

[fegarex]

Very nice!
I wondered how you shaded the background as well. I take it this was done with dots? It does make the scrolls jump out at you.

 

[jacques herbst]

doc the background is not relieved but shaded to look like it is.