Gary and mrthe thanks for the encouragement but this one did not pop for me.
My first attempt I crowded finer lines in this scale. But my fines line effort while it made the leaf dark did not achieve any visual depth/graduation.
So very finer lines very closely spaced were not working for me. Perhaps the answer is the finer lines but with exagerated white space between sections?
Anyway my prior fine line attempt was FLAT to my eye (even w reading glasses which are mandatory for me). So I filed them off and recut images shown that use fewer lines but mix several deep and fine lines trying to get something viewable naked eye but which not appear FLAT.
Overall I just struglled to juggle available space on individual leaf elements.
As I was cutting this i was thinking something this small, to be delicate in appearance, should perhaps be done in a bulino dot/pick techinique so by varying the very small dots you can more easily achieve graduation of color?
My first attempt I crowded finer lines in this scale. But my fines line effort while it made the leaf dark did not achieve any visual depth/graduation.
So very finer lines very closely spaced were not working for me. Perhaps the answer is the finer lines but with exagerated white space between sections?
Anyway my prior fine line attempt was FLAT to my eye (even w reading glasses which are mandatory for me). So I filed them off and recut images shown that use fewer lines but mix several deep and fine lines trying to get something viewable naked eye but which not appear FLAT.
Overall I just struglled to juggle available space on individual leaf elements.
As I was cutting this i was thinking something this small, to be delicate in appearance, should perhaps be done in a bulino dot/pick techinique so by varying the very small dots you can more easily achieve graduation of color?