Pre engraving drawing ,sorry layouts design great ideas how to form a border ,draw a scroll ,create great layouts,how to draw and finish small English scrolls.shading technique.you got it?
Yes, thanks. Couldn't figure out what you meant. Good engravers are mesmerizing to me. I got to know two really good ones back in the '80s, when I was going to Friendship for the NMLRA nationals........ Lynton McKenzie and Lew Sanchez. Lew would bring work and set up in a building across Laughery Creek. He invited me to watch him, and he would carry on a conversation with me while engraving. At first I was scared to talk, as I was afraid I would distract him and cause a "mishap". When I expressed that to him he just laughed and said that he sometimes listened to foreign language instruction audios while engraving.
Both he and Lynton died much too young and much too soon.
