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Old 02-25-2009, 02:07 PM
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Default Re: Carl Bleile engraving with new template tool & Lindsay Artisan

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Originally Posted by mckeenh View Post
Your art work is where I envy you. I can cut most anything but the overlay and intertwining of leaves is coming slow. I keep working at it drawing, drawing drawing but it still comes slow. Any ideas to speed the process?

Neil:[1]:
Hi Neil,

One suggestion is to forget about the leaves for a while, and just try to draw interweaving curves without any detail. Once you get a peasing effect that way, you can safely add detail, and make it work. If you worry about the leaves from the start, you may lose the overall sense of the design flow, which is much more important than the details. A good framework makes the details largeely a piece of cake!

HTH,

Tom
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