Having fun giving new life to my artwork

jbarelle1 · January 21, 2018, 11:04pm

I drew this jaguar back in 2015. The wood texture breathed new life into it I’m having way too much fun! Lol

Jules · January 21, 2018, 11:11pm

Great artwork!

pauline.lally · January 21, 2018, 11:13pm

Very nice

whitetigertooth · January 21, 2018, 11:38pm

Very well done. The artwork and the new rendition.

ptodd · January 22, 2018, 12:04am

Indeed! Beautiful!

jbarelle1 · January 22, 2018, 12:04am

cynd11 · January 22, 2018, 12:38am

Lovely, realistic art! I can almost see them breathing…

jbarelle1 · January 22, 2018, 1:05am

bkressley · January 22, 2018, 1:18pm

Stunning and talented!

bruceaulrich · January 22, 2018, 3:08pm

That’s wood? It turned out great! Love the drawing too.

jbarelle1 · January 22, 2018, 6:41pm

Yep it’s wood! LOL All drawings originated from pencil drawings. Thank you all!

hansena · January 22, 2018, 6:54pm

Those are gorgeous! Nice job!

SYRACUSEWOODCARVING · January 24, 2018, 12:07pm

Beautiful! Did you have to create a vector file from the image, how?

jbarelle1 · January 25, 2018, 10:18pm

No I just scanned the drawings then engraved them onto the wood. Pretty simple, really.

dan · January 26, 2018, 2:04am

Wow, your drawing skills are through the roof!

jbarelle1 · January 26, 2018, 2:21am

Thank you!

ntl · January 26, 2018, 2:33am

How long to engrave?
Settings?

jbarelle1 · January 26, 2018, 4:13am

I want to say about 40 minutes on each. The engrave settings were set to full, 1000 speed @ 255 passes. I also did a white Arabian that I drew and it didn’t turn out the way I would have liked. I didn’t have enough room to play with the contrast with the horse already being white so if you choose to do anything that is already white, it’s best to get the background as dark as you can get it so that it brings out the details in the white subject otherwise it will blend into the background and won’t look as impressive. It will look washed out.