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Leather Floral Design: Transitions

Don Gonzales

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This video is a quick tutorial on the Transitions used in designing your own leather tooling patterns. When designing floral tooling patterns, the transition areas from one layout circle to the next is many times the area that gives most designers the most trouble.

The main goal of this video is to show you how I go about setting up my transitions in order to create a very pleasing flow of vinework from one circle to the next.

If you would like to download the free transition framework sheet that we show in the video click this link:

http://dgsaddlery.com/frameworksheet/

If you would like to dive deeper into the subject of Leather Floral Design, you are welcome to purchase our newest eBook called "Introduction to Leather Floral Design" from our website by clicking this link:

http://dgsaddlery.com/product/introdu...

Thank you so much for watching and if you found this tutorial helpful please share it with another "LeatherHead" and please be sure and SUBSCRIBE to our channel.

Music by Ben Schane Music - Nashville, TN

20 Comments

@lswen7737 9 years ago

Don,
I have watched and listened to a lot of well known leather workers about drawing designs. You are the best! You are one of the best teachers as you seem to know how to explain the reasoning for doing what is being done. Thank You for your sharing. I am 80 years old and am enjoying making items out of leather. I am at a point where I want to do my own designs but, did not understand why things are done. Thanks for clearing it up!
Larry Swenson

@sfap5876 6 years ago

That is awesome I wish you would make another video on how to finish the vine I appreciate the work you put into this!

@Beurself4u 1 year ago

Thank you for teaching this leather art. Very kind of you to do.

@thesoodster1880 2 years ago

You are so kind to share your knowledge. Ty!

@kelleyfrazier5523 6 years ago

This video helped me so much, I just couldn’t get the vine rolling correctly and stopped using vines in my drawings. Thank you so much

@chucklambert7470 5 years ago

Very good study of basic flow. Thank you.

@chuckb5012 6 years ago

don. this is the best tutorials I have seen. I've looked through your other lessons and found one on Sheridan style. that's for tomorrow. I hope the other lesson continues to show the finishing go the design thanks chuck B

@TomRogers-fg8mt 2 years ago

Thank you. Getting out of my. Comfort zone trying this.

@markwoodbury1988 3 years ago

I really need to purchase your tooling course, this is great material. Thanks for your contribution to the craft, Don.
"You were created to create"

@dannymarkgraf34 10 months ago

wow. a true master of your craft, you make it look easy. great video with a lot of knowledge

@mikecohen641 9 years ago

Very good explanation Don. Easy to understand. Used your painting vid this past week and your antique vid has helped a lot. Thank you for taking the time to put these together and passing along your knowledge. One of these days I'm going to get down to B/CS and shake your hand.

@shirleymorales3161 4 years ago

Create stencils for those of us working with paints stains wanting to create a leather look on furniture !❤

@sofasquirrel 4 years ago

Thank You! This is a huge help. I really aprecaite your videos. I would like to see more on drawing your designs I'm getting better but still struggling.

@samprimera1907 5 years ago

I know you posted this a long time ago, but I’ve watched so many of your videos over the last few days. I really want to get into leather working and I’ve learned a lot from your videos.

@emandejnozka1369 4 years ago

Thanks, Don. You are very good at instruction and easy to follow. Perhaps you could mention the “Golden Means” and “Fibronoche Ratios” of proportion in your monologue. I don’t think it is too much for students to comprehend and it certainly is just how everything in Nature flows.

@christy9029 5 years ago

Thank you Don, just starting out and you help to understand the process and explaining the process.

@kelsayb5136 8 years ago

Thank you for your thorough and easy to understand explanation. I've been struggling so much with drawing my own patterns and this was an aha! moment. Thanks!

@BlueCro64 9 years ago

That you, thank you, thank you, I just downloaded your eBook. I have purchased books and have traveled and taken other courses, the information is valuable but nun would teach me the basics of how to do the vines, the flow and transition, this was always just a given thought. Because i did not have that basic information I would always get frustrated and give up. Now finally I have someone to teach me these simple basics to go along with all this other advanced knowledge i have. I can not thank you enough.

@kevincohn5862 5 years ago

I enjoyed your work very much, first time viewer. Would like very much to learn how to start and finish the floral design that you done. I like your approach 👍 how to attack or proceed to make the shape of the 🌼...again thanks and I enjoy your work. From Pgh,Pa...kpc.