Dani Girl
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Here is the first of a set of three miniature spyderco folding knives I am engraving for a young friend of mine who makes incredible knives back in Oz.
I couldn't find any mountains or trees that quite matched what I wanted for the knife so they came from my head and are 'artists impressions' of mountains and trees. I attempted to pull off the appearance of snow sitting in the branches in the foreground. The bears were from a photograph but rearranged slightly to fit the knife.
Between Brian teaching me how to correctly sharpen the tool, helping me with design ideas and helping me transfer the design and Katherine showing me an alternate grip that doesn't make my hand ache as fast I managed to get through this one. Hand pushing the lines in the foreground branches was still more than I could manage with much control, so they have a rather random messy organic look to them. The bears and background are entirely dots except for some of the trees on the distant hills were pushed in with one deep stroke.
This is the middle sized knife in the set of three.
I broke my chisel 3 or 4 time, spent a day finishing the designs and transferring them and over 10 hours with a hand burin getting this design to where it is. I am not calling it done yet because I value and look forward to the input I hope you will provide and I may do some more significant work to it because of that.
Please feel free to pick it apart, critique it as harshly as you please, or just say awwwwe that's so cute. Don't hold back.
I couldn't find any mountains or trees that quite matched what I wanted for the knife so they came from my head and are 'artists impressions' of mountains and trees. I attempted to pull off the appearance of snow sitting in the branches in the foreground. The bears were from a photograph but rearranged slightly to fit the knife.
Between Brian teaching me how to correctly sharpen the tool, helping me with design ideas and helping me transfer the design and Katherine showing me an alternate grip that doesn't make my hand ache as fast I managed to get through this one. Hand pushing the lines in the foreground branches was still more than I could manage with much control, so they have a rather random messy organic look to them. The bears and background are entirely dots except for some of the trees on the distant hills were pushed in with one deep stroke.
This is the middle sized knife in the set of three.
I broke my chisel 3 or 4 time, spent a day finishing the designs and transferring them and over 10 hours with a hand burin getting this design to where it is. I am not calling it done yet because I value and look forward to the input I hope you will provide and I may do some more significant work to it because of that.
Please feel free to pick it apart, critique it as harshly as you please, or just say awwwwe that's so cute. Don't hold back.