sketch now. cut later.

[ARTINHAND]

reading through ron smith scroll books. some issues are obvious, critiques welcome.

 

[Brian Marshall]

I predict that you will do well... you have shown that you have both patience and talent so far.

I've not the time at the moment to offer you more than this - there are six students arriving in a few minutes - but I am sure others will.


Brian Marshall
SJAS
Stockton, CA USA 95209
209-477-0550
instructor@jewelryartschool.com

 

[FANCYGUN]

Try taking the two designs you like the best and carefully combine them into one. Good exercise and the results might surprise you

 

[eastslope]

I like the stretched out one on the bottom of the picture on the right. Those elongated scrolls would look cool cut out.

 

[Andrew Biggs]

Hi Artinhand

Welcome to the forum.

I agree with Brian. You've obviousley been working very hard with Rons book and have grasped the concepts very well.

Just keep at it

Cheers
Andrew

 

[ARTINHAND]

i ran into an issue with the attempt at equidistant boarders and the tiny english scrolls. i just lost sight of how to make it look good. so i just quit on it for now. ill come back to that another time. any tips or suggestions on how to aproach this shape?

 

[ARTINHAND]

I like the stretched out one on the bottom of the picture on the right. Those elongated scrolls would look cool cut out.

i intend to cut practice plates of all 4 of these. my personal favorite so far is the top one on the left. i first tried to elongate the layout of the one you picked even more, but felt this had a brtter balance of scroll to background/long leaves to fillin what would have been background.