Thank you for the suggestions! One of my concerns is that I am not a natural artist, so drawing doesn’t come easily to me. I recently took Ray Cover’s intro class, however, and found his breakdown of the make up of scrolls to be very helpful. I’m hopeful that with practice I’ll be able to do as you say and turn out nice scrollwork and borders. Even if I don’t do some of the more elaborate work I see, I would be pleased to be able to add some high quality embellishment to a knife since I do some bladesmithing.
Ha, I appreciate the perspective! I’m going to practice drawing as I practice cutting. If I could learn some basic drawing skills, it would help my other crafting endeavors; I think the time has come to get over the fact that it doesn’t come easily to me and start working on it!
The great thing about practicing drawing is it's something you always find a little time to dedicate to it here & there if you just carry around a pad and some pencils( he'll even a pen ) and you can practice while sitting in your car waiting for someone who ran into a store or even while watching a ball game. Granted the concentration may not be as intense at times like that but your moving a pencil on paper which is the most important part of practice. Good luck.
Thank you, I’ll do that!
Thank you Mike, that’s great! Looks like an “r” got omitted in your link.
