You know you are getting it right when the replies to posts slow down. That, or you've got it so wrong that no one cares to comment. I'm pretty sure it's the former in your case!
Layne
Wish I still had all the old paper napkins I drew stuff on - at 3am sitting at a Denny's restaurant drinking MORE coffee with Vic Vasquez or Skip Arnew...
I have a habit of always drawing my scrolls to the right hand direction.
so for this scroll I went to the left....just takes practice. I added another leaf so it would be easier to shade the loop section of the scroll.
if I was to add this engraving onto the back of a pend. I would only have to remove the background on the inside of the scroll work.
here is another sketch I did. its not finished as you can tell, but I did fall back to drawing the scroll in the direction of my right hand.