Pyrography – How to make a leather strop to clean tips

If you happen to have these things at home you can make your own leather strop to clean your tips. I use this along with some aluminium oxide to clean my tips.

I leave you a link to a similar one sold by Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B075KZPDDZ/ref=ox_sc_saved_image_2?smid=A1VOQX8ZGPM7E1&psc=1 It is not expensive.

Pyrography – Portrait of Lady Gaga – with a little talk about art and so...

This project took me 11 hours to make. Mostly made with a spoon shader. The original photograph was taken for Harper’s Bazaar – US magazine. The Optima 1 website is: http://www.carvertools.com/ Rotary tool used in the hair: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Tacklife-Mul... Caran d'ache pencils used for highlights: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Caran-Dache-... Don't forget to use a fixative when using color pencils.

Lady Gaga portrait

This portrait took me 11 hours to make.

Made with a shader spoon mostly.

Part Razertip and part Optima 1.

You can buy the Optima 1 machine here.

The original photograph was taken for Harper’s Bazaar – US magazine.

You can find it here.

Pyrography - Bigodes de gato - versão portuguesa

Cat whiskers

Cat whiskers

This is the reference photo I've used for the next tutorial.

Feel free to use it.

This is Gandalf, one of my cats.

Hope it helps.

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Nominated to first place in pyrography YouTube channels.
Just numbers but they mean that this ancient art is very most alive and well and I'm very proud to help spread the word and be a part of all this.
That wouldn't be possible without your contribution  of course.
Thank you so much for helping me doing this.
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