05/12/2024
🪷~✨ Happy Mothers Day!!!
This collection of charms was soooo much fun to engrave. If you know my work by now you know that I draw everything I engrave by hand, I don’t subscribe to the methods of transferring designs because I think drawing them by hand is generally faster and more authentic. It does sometimes have its challenges however; and this collection of kids drawings is the perfect example! I get jobs like this quite often, where the client asks me to copy their handwriting, or doodle, or in this case their children’s own drawings and engrave them onto jewelry :))
This is a difficult thing to do - yes. It at the same time very elementary, especially when drawing kids drawings full of little stutter lines, and scribbles.
As my dexterity is abnormally tuned, to be able to pull off a project like this I actually drew these in ink with my LEFT hand. If you think of a child hands, they don’t yet have the muscle memory or strength to draw a perfect circle, or straight lines(usually). The hands will be jerky and twitchy while drawing. I remember what it was like back then as a child and being frustrated at myself for not being able to draw well and smoothly.
Nowadays when I get a job like this I get absolutely thrilled though, because it’s a challenge in its own way to draw something imperfect, but yet to perfectly recreate an imperfect design. Is it a paradox?
Reverse engineered art?
What would you call it? 🤔
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