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Compared to makeup, 29 year old Chongqing girl Zhao Pinyi loved picking up the knife and hammer and carving various realistic designs on the leather. Such a process is called leather carving. Because of her passion for leather carving, she and her boyfriend carved different patterns and patterns on their leather bags, belts, and so on. They looked cool and handsome.

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Compared with make-up, Zhao Pinyi, 29, a girl in Chongqing, likes to take up a knife and hammer and carve out various realistic designs on leather. Such a process is called leather carving. Because of her passion for leather carving, she and her boyfriend carved different patterns and patterns on their leather bags, belts, and so on. They looked cool and handsome. Now, there are already more than 30 pieces of DIY leather carving work at home. These DIY works, she said, adorn their lives.

Girls play with leather to love.

A thin girl is bending her waist in a high-rise housing in the Shi Donghai's Xing Zhou District in the south bank area. She cuts a piece of A4 paper big hide with a cutoff knife. After cutting it, she puts down the cowhide, and takes out a knife on her left hand and stands on the top of the cow skin. The hammer in her right hand, "bang", the hammer chisel is on the knife handle, and a rose pattern appears. For a few days, a cluster of Rosa flowers left a mark on the cowhide.

The girl is Zhao Pinyi, 29 years old. Having seen a leather carving exhibition, I fell in love with it. Last year, in order to learn leather carving art, she resigned from public institution and returned to Chongqing.

After returning to Chongqing, Zhao Pinyi found videos from the Internet and started the road of self-learning. However, the skin carving process is complex, and self learning sculpture will encounter many difficulties. Once a request was made, a netizen in the field enthusiastically answered the question for her, because the same hobby later became her boyfriend. Boyfriend Yang Xuanzhi is a Hubei martial arts man. After knowing Yi Yi, he quit his job and went to Chongqing to start an undertaking, only to accompany his girlfriend.

"We like to collect all kinds of cowhide, and are keen to carve all kinds of patterns on the skin, which can be called" play leather family ". Yang Xuanzhi said that after being with Zhao Pinyi, the two had done "knife and guest". Now they have finished twenty or thirty pieces of leather carving.

A hammer hammers the fur of a tiger.

Reporters saw that they had more than 20 pieces of leather carvings on the table, carved with Indian heads and dragons, with different styles, hip-hop punks, and Chinese style with high mountains and flowing water. Because it is carved on the skin, the design shows 3D three-dimensional relief effect, ups and downs, scattered, bringing a sense of immersive.

In many leather carving works, a tiger head picture is most vivid and colorful. In the picture, the tiger is yellow and fur, its eyes are bright and bright, and its fur is even more. "Tiger's fur is the most difficult to carve. It's not a big picture. It's the hammer that I've been burning for two nights and hammering thousands of times to get this effect." Zhao Pinyi said that in order to show tiger's fur, she changed the knife head of the printing tool into a striped style. After beating, the stripes were carved on the tiger body, that is, its fur.

"A leather carvings should take at least 3 days, and my leather carving bag took half a month." Zhao Pinyi said that each piece of leather carving was made of white hammer and thousand hammers, and many cocoons appeared on her hands.

Reporters also found that apart from the bag, the two people used leather belt watch, mobile phone leather cover, all rely on their own DIY, even her family dog, wearing a domineering leather carving work dog collar. Zhao Pinyi said that they integrate their hobbies into their lives and add a lot of interest to their lives.

Tools for leather carving

Hammers are used for punching; plastic boards or marble, underneath or underneath the leather under engraving; right angle steel ruler; sulphuric acid paper; sponge; pressure eraser; iron pen; rotary cutting tool; printing tool.

How to make leather carvings?

1. measure the size of leather with right angle steel ruler. 2. cut out the skin to be carved with a knife. 3. wet the leather with sponge. 4. the carving will be painted on sulphuric acid paper. 5. cover the upper part of the leather with sulphuric acid paper. 6. paints the pattern onto the skin with a stylus. 7. cut the pattern with a rotating knife. 8. select the necessary printing tools and hammer out the appropriate pattern. 9. if you need color, you can use fine brushwork.