I’ve finished stippling the background on the scroll I was working on yesterday.

After that, I’ve decided to not waste time designing, but spend more time engraving to hone the skill. For that, I dug out an old book about Japanese family crests and started using the designs within to practice my engraving.

Found a simple lotus flower. Has the image transferred onto my copper practice plate and got down to work. Ugh. Got stabbed by another piece of sharp curly copper chip again. I need to either remind myself not to brush my fingers too forcefully across the surface or learn to break off the chip cleanly off the surface.

Injured again!

After the lotus flower, I found another flora design to work on. This is slightly more complex. For this, I try to make my cuts lighter and even throughout the design. I must say I’ve managed to achieve that.

I will work on adding some shading to the leaves tomorrow.