Critique request and couple of questions

[Dirtdigger]

Thank you Andrew!
Allready from the very beginning on this design i had in my mind this contrast with dark grey and bright aluminum from cut parts and was thinking this looks better than it would with removed background and exposed a lot more of that bright aluminum. Shading part i did a couple of lines, but it´s really difficult to make thin lines through this anodizing. At first i have to push really hard to get the point through and when it starts to cut it´s way deep allready and because of that shading lines will be really thick like you can see from those couple ones that i did make.
I know, excuses, excuses...

Edit: Want to add that i did another practice piece before and from that i stippled and blackened the background and made more shading lines, so learning from them has done in the prosess.

 

[Mike Fennell]

You will enjoy that knife. I still have concerns about the origin of the first scroll. Perhaps on your next project you could consider something like this rough sketch of an alternative angle of attack.

 

[McAhron]

I think you are talented at drawing. Many engravers struggle more with the design and drawing than with cutting. My opinion is you should spend a lot more time cutting to drawing,as your drawing skills surpass your cutting.JMHO

 

[Dirtdigger]

Thank you very much for this sketch Mike! That first scroll looks so much better the way you draw it, i´m sure to remember it when i´m doing my next design.

Thank you McAhron for encouragement! I have been drawing and airbrushing a bit when i was younger, i think it´s slowly coming back to me while i have been doing these scroll drawings.

 

[McAhron]

Your welcome. I was afraid after I posted that I may have come across offensively. Peace