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hey guys Devin here with make anything now back in my 3 Doodler 3d pen review I
discovered by accident sort of that eh if you draw on
Leather with a 3D pen and then peel it off it leaves this really cool lighter tone
I promise you guys I would play [around] with that some more and
Since then I got the 3D simo mini which has leather burning capabilities
[so] I thought it would be super cool if I could combine leather burning and
Whatever the name for this technique is and make something really cool out of it
I actually have a really nice leather backpack i designed a year ago
And I was thinking that it looked a little bare so it's actually the perfect thing for me to use these techniques on
So let's go ahead and look at what I can do
So the first thing I did was swap in this kind of chisel shaped hot end for the 3D Simo mini
And I'm going to make [sure] that I screw it in in a way that it allows me to create both thin lines and broad
Lines based on the direction that I'm drawing and I'll plug it in then heat it up
Now if you just press the feed button it'll heat up
But only while you're holding down the button
And you pretty much want this to get hot and stay [hot] [so] you're going to want to press [down] both buttons at the same?
Time and that will put it into continuous operation mode
Here I have a scrap piece of leather that I was testing out on
Just to kind of get a feel for how fast
I want to move and how dark the marks are going to be before I actually start working on my backpack I
Discovered that this tool works pretty well for both the broad lines and thin lines
And it works on both sides of the leather as well in case you're thinking of working on the inside of the hide
So once again. I wanted to try out my
Filament removal technique
And I did find that pla stuck a lot better than [abs] to the leather so here
I'm using this fluorescent pla, but really the color doesn't matter at all
Because we're just using it to peel off some [of] the color of the leather
So before actually doing this I took a photo of my backpack and brought into photoshop so that I could kind of test out different
designs
I've only got one of these backpacks
So I don't want to mess it up and what I did was create two layers on top of my backpack
One is set to multiply and the other one is set to screen
Which are two different modes that basically make it lighten or Darken the image below it
So I was able to kind of simulate both the leather burning and the 3D pen on the leather as well
So I just kind of scribbled out some different designs, and I ended up doing this kind of symmetrical artwork
That's got a kind of native American feel with a lot of little details
Working out from the center make anything logo. [I] thought it looked pretty cool
So I decided to go with this design
[so] [I'll] just have that right in front of me while I'm working [on] my backpack as a reference to what I want to do
so now I can get out the actual backpack, and I'm going to make sure to pull the straps apart and
Lay it as flat as possible
At least for this top section where I'm going to be doing my leather burning
And then I'm going to swap out this filament
back for the leather burning tool now if you have the 3D simo app you can just select leather for the wood burning tool and
That'll automatically set the temperature and you [can] also set it into continuous operation mode through your phone as well
So now it's time to start working on the backpack
Which is pretty nerve-wracking?
But you just have to start
So what I did was kind of just use the very tip [of] the burning tool and use that to pretty much
Sketch out the middle Diamond of my design just to figure out the proportion and get everything started
So I'm kind of just scratching into the leather, but it is also running, so it's burning into it
Just a little bit and I'm going to draw out [my] triangles as well, and then I got this
So you can see it was pretty messy, but now I'm just going to burn over all of those scribbles
So that will hide [all] my initial sketching
Now you'll notice I rotate the backpack a lot, and that's very important because you want to use a burner in a natural position
Otherwise you're going to have trouble making very clean and smooth lines like this
So I'll burn the outlines first using the broad end of this chisel Burner
And then I'll go ahead and start filling in the actual dark areas of my design
It's not very different from just using a sharpie to fill in the dark area
You just want to keep the speed kind of consistent so that the burn doesn't look so glassy
Now for these outer details
It's super easy to get these short little straight lines because all you have to do is press [that] one edge of the burning tool
Down and it creates that nice consistent Little line
And I sort of based my design on the tool
Because I knew I would be able to do this and create these little details all the way around it's a very simple trick
But when you have a lot of it, and you kind of play around with it a bit it turns out pretty impressive
It's also really easy to create these small diamond shapes by just using that same end and then dragging it over just a [bit]
To make it into a square
and you
[can] go back and forth until you get the darkness that you desired
You can see I'm using my pinky to kind of stabilize my hand
That's a pretty common way to make sure that you get nice clean lines
Now I've got another kind of geometric design out here, and I want these lines to be a little thicker
so I'm going to run along the edge of that burning tool, but I'm going to go back and forth a few times and
Purposefully, [not] stay on exactly the same line so that I can get to the lines being a little darker and bolder
So I'm doing a symmetrical design here
and I'll start by doing that middle long line and then go off here to one side and create the other two lines and
Then just go over to the other side and try to match the length there
So it helps to be good at eyeballing
With this kind of work because you're really just judging how far apart to make each line and trying to keep it consistent
Of course you could use tailors chalk and draw out your design on the backpack first
But I was pretty confident in my [freehanding] skills, so I didn't do that
Now I have these circles in the design and this chisel tip wasn't really working for that purpose
So I'm going to swap it out for this little spoon shaped [cotton], and I think that will do the job easier
so I unplugged it and let it cool down and then swapped out the end and
It was totally worth it because this tool works a lot better for the circles and I imagine just about any
Wavy or More organic line?
For this design, I only use it for these four circles because everything else in my design is pretty much straight lines
So [that's] where the chisel tool is perfect
Once I got the circles in there
it's back to using this sharp Edge and
Rather than just [doing] all of the design on one side and then going to the other side and trying to make it symmetrical
[I] do one feature at a time, and then I do all the different copies of that feature on every side of the backpack
So I'm kind of building the whole thing out progressively and that helps with symmetry as well
I'll also try to align things based on previous designs
so if this line I'll kind of center it between those two lines and then I'll align it with the
One sun beam on this little thing so that I can get a pretty similar line on the other end by [using] those same references
All right, so that's half of the work that is all the leather burning
so now I'm going to go ahead and swap out back to the 3D pen attachment for the 3D Simo and
I'll kind of purge out some plastic to make sure it's running well
And then it's time [to] use my second technique to get those lighter areas
And I'll start in the center once again by outlining [B]. Make anything triangles?
I've got this on medium speed
And I'm making sure that I let a lot of plastic come out of the pen so that [it]
Really sticks on to the leather, and it'll hopefully pull off a lot of color on [the] top
Once it's cooled down
I can just peel it off and as you see it works really well on some areas
While there were other areas where it didn't work quite as well
I'm not really sure why some areas work better than others, but wherever there were troubled areas. I would just go over them again and
Then it worked out pretty well
So as I said this entire time I've got my laptop [just] [out] of the [frame] of this shot
And I'm constantly referring to that to know what I'm doing. I totally freestyle a lot of my projects, but in this one
I'm referencing my digital sketch the entire way. I'm basically trying to copy it as closely as possible
Which I guess is probably generally the good way to go
This actually looks kind of cool with the fluorescent pink pla on it
So you know that's another option to just let the plastic stay on the leather although
It doesn't stick super well you can use a 3D pen on cotton t-shirts and things like that, and it'll generally stick pretty well
So that's another idea
3d pen on your clothing
You can see again
I'm going over those areas [that] didn't quite come out right and
as long as I'm good at following the same line I can do that as many times as I need to until I get the
Exact color that. I want to finish things off
I went [around] that logo again in the center with the burning tools nice and hot so I kind of [darkened] that and
sharpened all those little triangles
And there is my final design just as I had sketched it out on the computer
does that mean or what I'm super happy with how this turned out the combination of leather burning and
leather plastic peeling okay
Leave a comment. If you guys have a good name for this technique
I'm drawing on it right this 3D pen and filling it up because I need [to] I need to call it something
Anyways, I hope you guys liked it
I'm really happy with how this turned out it looks pretty professional
And yet crafty and unique even if you don't want to make something from scratch out of leather
You could always buy [a] leather belt or a leather wallet or something and add your own flair with these techniques
So it's pretty neat way to add some personality and individuality to your stuff
Alright, that's it for this one. Hope you guys liked it. I thought it was pretty cool
It was kind of a different project compared to what I usually do a lot [more] organic material and a little less plastic
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3d printing of course you know I'm doing it for you guys
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