Question: Dark background without relief engraving ?

SalihKara

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Hi,

is it possible to give dark effect for negative spaces without making background removal.

I tried stippling with a very thin ( needle point ) and sharp engraver, I get a closer result as I wish but it is not still as good as I need.
 

Thierry Duguet

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You actually proceed as you would do with deep relief, of course the tool need to be sharp but you do not want a heavy stippling, it will break the point too fast, a light touch will give you a dark, well texture, background. Actually one of the reason I do not use black filler for my background, relief or not is because I like to see the texture of the background, dark gray texture background will give a good contrast because the texture and the color enhanced each other, dark gray vs white, smooth vs polish.
 
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i like darkened background. a plain, stippled effect is also nice. if the stippling is done properly, it looks just as attractive. if there's a lot of background, i much prefer just stippling.
 

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fred mentioned the star effect. if you stipple with a point that has 3 or 4 facets, your work can really look much better. it's all about how the light reflects back to the eye when viewed. i think sam posted about this some time ago. make a few different stipple points. do the same pattern, but use the different points. you will likely see an improvement from one of them.
 

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SalihKara: Use a single line background, lines placed close to each other, all running in the same direction. Done right it will lower the background.
 

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Lately, I've been paying attention to the ornamental engraving done on the metal (usually silver and nickel silver) mounts of Scottish bagpipes.

A darkened background is achieved at least seven ways: (1) close lining as described above; (2) using a liner tool to effect the same sort of texture as close lining; (3) wriggling in one basic direction; (4) wriggling then cross-wriggling roughly perpendicular to the run of the first pass; (5) punch stippling with a single point tool; (6) matting the background with a textured flat punch; and (7) massed stabbing cuts with a the point of a graver.

In my experiments, the most texture with the least work is achieved by wriggling then cross-wriggling.

I hope this helps some.
 

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