I really like to carve
Drawing my own designs, not so much...but carving -- YES!
The original inspiration drawing segment that I traced is above and my attempt to draw something similar is below.
I put my drawing up to a pane of glass in my studio door so I could see through the paper and retrace my lines -- only going in the opposite direction.
Yay -- it worked!
Then I traced my drawing with soft pencil and tracing paper for the transfer of the design to the carving material.
I cut myself a chunk of carving material from the larger block.
I placed the pencil tracing into position and rubbed the paper to transfer the design.
Then I went over the smeary pencil lines with Sharpie markers so they'd be easier to see to carve.
Ready to carve!
I love this material -- it carves like butter!
There...all carved.
I inked up the carving with an old ink pad and made a test print. I still need to go back and clean up the lines, but I am pretty happy with my waves for the sea monster artist trading cards for the January swap.
carving waves for a sea monster ATC
Today I am working on teaching myself to carve some waves for the January artist trading card swap with the theme: sea monsters. At some point I will be drawing some sort of sea monster as well.
By enlarging and tracing some of the examples I found, I am starting to get the hang of the motion I need for drawing my own waves.
Tracings are on the top, my scribbles are on the bottom.
The look I am going for is like those theater sets where people are moving cut out and painted waves and other elements are hanging, being moved, etc.
Like this sort of thing...isn't this beautiful?
I know I have other examples in kid books but I can't find them today. I pulled up this still from the film "Moonrise Kingom" -- that sort of waves.
Eventually I will feel confident enough to draw and carve my own waves...and they will be combined with my clouds and other elements that I have made previously.
I am going to use the "make-it-twice-as-big-then-reduce-it-to-the-correct-ATC-size" method that I've used in the past for other artist trading cards.
The oversized playing card is the size I work in and then the Magic: the Gathering cards are what I use as a foundation/base for my cards.
