didyoung
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your thoughts are welcome.
I am thinking of doing away with the first two top knotts
I am thinking of doing away with the first two top knotts
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Brian Marshall
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For an engraver, that's a fun puzzle... and I like it for that reason!
But for the average client, it may be a bit confusing? Too many directions going on for the eye to follow?
Brian
But for the average client, it may be a bit confusing? Too many directions going on for the eye to follow?
Brian
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KCSteve
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Hmmm....
I don't usually comment on your sketches, since your art skills are better than mine, but I just don't think you see a whole lot of half hitches in nature. Spirals, yes, but coming back through in a locking knot....
I don't usually comment on your sketches, since your art skills are better than mine, but I just don't think you see a whole lot of half hitches in nature. Spirals, yes, but coming back through in a locking knot....
didyoung
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Kc
if i. see a plant like this while out walking around i would start looking for the aliens that brought it.
the half hitchs are an easy thing to change.
thanks for your comments
if i. see a plant like this while out walking around i would start looking for the aliens that brought it.
the half hitchs are an easy thing to change.
thanks for your comments
Willem Parel
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I like your drawings a lot Shawn, but in this case I am with Brian, its confusing eventhough it's nicely drawn.
Maybe in your search to get better you are overdoing right now in this sketch and should reminding the KISS principal.
I admitt ammediately that my skills of drawing (and so judging) are far beyond the point of giving me a alibi to have comments but as a common spectator it's very confusing and not a pleasant design.
Maybe in your search to get better you are overdoing right now in this sketch and should reminding the KISS principal.
I admitt ammediately that my skills of drawing (and so judging) are far beyond the point of giving me a alibi to have comments but as a common spectator it's very confusing and not a pleasant design.
didyoung
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another version
I still need to add a little something in the center:thinking:
I still need to add a little something in the center
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Donny
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Can I ask if you use Photoshop to cleanup your drawings?
Donny
Donny
didyoung
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I do not use photoshop....just a good old pink eraser
Terrezar
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If you were to introduce some contrast to the drawing it may make it seem a little less "messy." Other than that I musst say I like it, and I don't quite see why designs has to be "realistic."
KCSteve
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I like 'em both!
If you want another variation, I recently cut a simple folded leaf on a money clip and when I showed my ever-indulgent-wife her first response was to ask where the eagle's eye was. In yours I see more of a Griffin (which is usually shown as a modified eagle's head).
If you want another variation, I recently cut a simple folded leaf on a money clip and when I showed my ever-indulgent-wife her first response was to ask where the eagle's eye was. In yours I see more of a Griffin (which is usually shown as a modified eagle's head).
FANCYGUN
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Shawn
I like your drawings very much as the have usually a wonderful flow to them. However with this one i do think you overdid it a bit and it just has a knot effect and gets too tied up upon itself.
I like your drawings very much as the have usually a wonderful flow to them. However with this one i do think you overdid it a bit and it just has a knot effect and gets too tied up upon itself.
didyoung
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Thanks for your comments..
its true the more i look at it the less i like it.
still working on some elements but moving away from this
mess
its true the more i look at it the less i like it.
still working on some elements but moving away from this
mess
FANCYGUN
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Shawn
Oftentimes we in our quest for immortality, we get carried away with outselves and tend to forget things and just plain over do it. Don't ask me how I know. At that point i usually just try and simplify things. usually that works the best. Remeber the eye needs a focal point and a movement to carry outr eyes around the design. Without this we just end up with a stagnant design. It aint easy. Keep plugging at it.
Oftentimes we in our quest for immortality, we get carried away with outselves and tend to forget things and just plain over do it. Don't ask me how I know. At that point i usually just try and simplify things. usually that works the best. Remeber the eye needs a focal point and a movement to carry outr eyes around the design. Without this we just end up with a stagnant design. It aint easy. Keep plugging at it.
davidshe
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Great to see your drawing process. I would bet that the last drawing, even with all the twists and turns, would look fantastic once it was engraved!
Roger Bleile
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Shawn,
I really like the designs you present on this forum and your execution is exceptional. I rarely give any advice about design on this forum however, I'd like to suggest that you work up your designs within some kind of outline or border rather than in free space. You seem to do lots of work on conchos and buckles so I would suggest various knife bolster shapes, a shotgun side plate, or a revolver frame. By working on elongated and irregular shapes you can get some flow going.
Regards,
Roger
I really like the designs you present on this forum and your execution is exceptional. I rarely give any advice about design on this forum however, I'd like to suggest that you work up your designs within some kind of outline or border rather than in free space. You seem to do lots of work on conchos and buckles so I would suggest various knife bolster shapes, a shotgun side plate, or a revolver frame. By working on elongated and irregular shapes you can get some flow going.
Regards,
Roger
Thierry Duguet
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In a way your sketch perfectly illustrate why I never draw any. The size of the final work, the shading and background treatment is going to make or break your engraving. I assume that you already have a picture in your mind, not being mind reader (yet), I do not see what you see I am therefore unable to criticize your sketch.
didyoung
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a less busy sketch.
RDP
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Shawn, I guess this comment to some will give away my inexperience, but in my view I don't see anything wrong with any of them, as soon as you engrave them and shade them the way you do it, they will be outstanding as usual,
Richard
Richard
Julia.J
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Hey Shawn,
I saw these sketches yesterday, but didn't have enough time to comment- it's always a pleasure to see studies like these, keep us posted
Your design looks pretty good, but there's something that bothered me yesterday and I could not quite see what it was, but when taking my time to study these more today I might have figured it out. In a design like this, the mind tries to create a complete circle, but when it's not able to do that, something seems to be off. I'm not too good at explaining what I mean, so hope you don't mind that I drew a quick sketch. I only changed the part that kept poking me in the eye, relocated the "ending" so to speak and gave it a bit more air between the other elements. What do you think?
~Julia
I saw these sketches yesterday, but didn't have enough time to comment- it's always a pleasure to see studies like these, keep us posted
Your design looks pretty good, but there's something that bothered me yesterday and I could not quite see what it was, but when taking my time to study these more today I might have figured it out. In a design like this, the mind tries to create a complete circle, but when it's not able to do that, something seems to be off. I'm not too good at explaining what I mean, so hope you don't mind that I drew a quick sketch. I only changed the part that kept poking me in the eye, relocated the "ending" so to speak and gave it a bit more air between the other elements. What do you think?
~Julia
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