cropduster
Elite Cafe Member
Fabulous drawing. Thank you for posting.
Nice drawing Dani. Like Sam says, cross hatching gives depth and texture to the shading. My only criticism is to beware of over shading. It's something that happens a lot nowadays in stuff I see. It's very easy to do when drawing and even easier to do when using a microscope to cut. The engravings look fabulous when photographed and the detail can be amazing BUT most engraving is looked at with the naked eye by the owner of the piece and those lines which look great and well spaced at 15x magnification can end up looking like a black blob at actual size to the naked eye. I've seen it on engraved watches, especially when the scrolls are fairly small. More does not always equate to better. Sometimes, less is more. Something to bear in mind.