02:41 PM I am done with the “Chrysanthemum”. Rather pleased with this one actually, though I am still sore with the super deep and ugly first cut which you can see from that one petal in the middle of the flower. I should get some black paint to ink up the cuts so that they […]
04:40 PM Bought a bottle of some Insta-Dri Top Coat for nail polish. Stated on the back of its package, it says that their “exclusive Acrylic Polymer top coat hardens and dries any nail color”. I was hoping to use this to seal my pencil graphite transfer and prevent it from smudging on my next […]
04:23 PM Finished with the shading. It is extremely hard to make uniform, consistent parallel lines partly because of my inexperience and partly because of I cannot really see much with 3.5X magnification, so it was mostly done by feel. Another thing is I should probably remove the nail polish before I shade the […]
06:58 PM Let the engraving starts! Instead of spending too much time thinking of what to engrave, I decided to engrave the first thing that popped into my mind; a majestic Japanese red-crowned crane. Went to Google image, and looked through some picture. Found the one which I liked and I sketch it out on […]