Last night I worked on my drawing some. Wanting to see some of the contrasts and a better idea of how the design will look on metal. I dakened the background and drew in a some shading lines then duplicated and rotated the image to give me the two images of the buckle design. Did some erasing here and there and consequently got some smudges in areas. There are some areas that still need work but I can address those when I redraw to create the actual design to be transfered. At that point I won't be reproducing the detail shown here and I will be able to focus on correcting the flats, elbows,etc.
With a little imagination, the shaded outer perimeter of the posting gives some idea of what the design will look like on the slightly domed metal surface (allthough a silghtly different shape).
Still haven't worked on the center panel, but that will probably come late this evening.
Gene