Two Bowies - Part 7
I intend to decorate the sheaths for both knives with pictures of birds of prey, so today I will just write shortly about designs and sketches.
For the bigger knife, I decided to use a picture of a soaring eagle that I had drawn more than twenty years ago.
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I
scanned the original pencil sketch and I adjusted it in Photoshop to
a better fit for the intended sheath shape. And when I was at it, I
have also used some coloring to sketch out the colors that I would
use.
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For
the smaller knife, I wanted to use a picture of a kestrel and here the
template was one of my photographs of two kestrels sitting on a dead
branch in a tree behind my garden.
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And
of course, I did the same things in Photoshop as I did with the eagle.
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I
printed out the black outlines to use them as templates for embossing
the leather. More about that in two weeks – next weekend I am not
at home and thus there will not be any blog post.