Archive for February, 2009
Sketch a Day: Days 7-14
Posted by Viljo Marrandi in Art, Drawing on February 9, 2009
Here’s last week’s batch of sketches. Some are better, some worse. Final conclusion is, that I should just practice more.
Engraved Zippo
Posted by Viljo Marrandi in Art, engraving on February 3, 2009
Don’t you just love it when you get something done? Past few weeks I’ve been working on a Zippo engraving for a customer. My first idea was to make it rather simple design, but that sort of didn’t work out. This is first of the ‘replicated pattern’ type of engraving I’ve done, at least on this level. One I made a mirrored design engraving, but I think this one is an improvement over the old one.
Anyways, that engraving is now completed. Here are few photos of engraving in progress.
Zippo engraving in progress, half of the contours done.
In this stage the lower right corner is completely finished (I just wanted to see how the final result will look like, impatient as I am), all the shading is done and some of the background is removed (the more shiny spots).
Zippo engraving half finished.
And here it is, completely finished.
Completed Zippo engraving.
Design took about 8 hours (I’m still very slow at it) and engraving 13 hours.
So, what do y’all think about it?
Sketch a Day: Day 6 (and Zippo progress)
Posted by Viljo Marrandi in Art, Drawing, engraving on February 1, 2009
You wouldn’t want to run into one of these in the night.
That fella is sort of recognisable, isn’t he? But I think I will start posting after every other day or so, not to bore you to death with my crappy drawings.
But here is also a teaser of soon to be finished Zippo engraving.
Lower right corner is already inked, so that’s how the final result will look like.
