Scrollwork design process

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This might help those learning to draw scrollwork. I might add that I don't draw all of the lines in Step 2 per the illustration. I do them one at a time and complete each element as I go. I drew it this way to help you wrap your brain around how the internal elements are built. The end result is what counts so feel free to try it both ways. I don't think it matters if you do it my way or per the illustration.
 

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Sam, are you drawing step one in one continued stroke on each scroll. Or do you sketch it in and then trace over?
Charlie
 

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Your works have always been nice to me. The followings are some of the carpet designs we use them in our engravings. Some of them are so much complicated that we usually pray God before start.
 

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do you actually remove & matte background after shading? i've always shaded last.
 

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Sam, are you drawing step one in one continued stroke on each scroll. Or do you sketch it in and then trace over?
Charlie

I draw by lightly sketching and making corrections as I go. I can often do it in one attempt, but it's better to lightly sketch and then create a dark backbone once you have the spiral done.

In my illustration my top right scroll isn't as perfect as I preach that it should be. I should really go back and fix that.
 

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do you actually remove & matte background after shading? i've always shaded last.

I do it like you do Mitch, so my illustration is a bit misleading. The shading is always the very last thing I do.
 

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Sam in drawing example 2 first leaf line did you taper the lines by increasing pressure on the pin tip? Like wise in shading, light pressure to heavy(?). Kind of like how you would cut the line
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Sam in drawing example 2 first leaf line did you taper the lines by increasing pressure on the pin tip? Like wise in shading, light pressure to heavy(?). Kind of like how you would cut the line
Sandy

Yes, that's exactly what I did, and exactly why the combination of Procreate, the iPad, and the Apple Pencil is so nice. :)
 

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Sam, when you make your corrections, do you erase and redraw or can you adjust the lines is in illustrator?
Also I can be shaky on the tracing of the sketch is there a way to help and get smooth lines?
Thanks,Charlie
 

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Sam, when you make your corrections, do you erase and redraw or can you adjust the lines is in illustrator?
Also I can be shaky on the tracing of the sketch is there a way to help and get smooth lines?
Thanks,Charlie

It's not vector based so there is no adjusting the path of a line after it's drawn. It's quite easy to undo or erase though.
The pens and pencils have what's called streamline which can be adjusted to smooth the lines as you draw. It's good for some things and useless for others. It till take some of the shaky out of a line though, as will grainy pencils which won't show a shaky edge like a hard black line will.
 

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Thank you for the insight into the pressure sensitivity of the pen for thin and thick lines Sandy and Sam.
I think I will print out some of Andrew's, Sam's, Sandy's and Lee's Q&A's in APPLE PEN QUESTIONS and this thread for future reference.
Great tutorial for the computer challenged like me.
Hope that is OK, will save a lot of backtracking with the search feature of the Cafe.
 
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I really admire your willingness to share your insight, knowledge and experience, Sam. Thank you.
 

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That looks like your sketch on the plane, backbones are laid out exactly the same, but your details in either make them seem a world apart. Attention to detail.

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