HENRY BALL
- Goldsmith and Silversmith -

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A guitar pick I made and engraved inspired by Malcolm Appleby

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The main character of the Quint books of 'The Edge Chronicles'. This image is referenced often throughout the books

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An engraving of some reference material from the game 'Total War - Three Kingdoms'

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An engraving of a Japanese style dragon on a door fingerplate i made

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An engraving of a sky pirate ship from 'The Edge Chronicles', engraved into a piece of patternated silver

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Another engraving from 'The Edge Chronicles', this one is of the 'Caterbird' towing a sky pirate ship through the sky

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An engraving on copper of the 'Banderbear' from 'The Edge Chronicles'

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Another Edge Chronicles engraving, I particularly liked how the clouds looked once I had engraved them

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I got to meet the amazing illustrator of the Edge Chronicles books, Chris Riddell. He offered to draw my favourite character for me so, of course, I had to engrave it

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An engraving of a hare based off of an instagram post by Ford Hallam. He posted (step by step) how he made his engraving so this was my attempt at copying it

The Caterbird

A close up of the Caterbird from the Edge Chronicles

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A different perspective of my previous Caterbird engravings

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A carved and engraved pangolin I made to use as a business card to get a work placement. I ended up not sending it off as I grew too attached to it

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Another sky pirate ship, engraved into some puddled silver scraps with the 'Flight Rock' in the centre carved into a sphere

Inspiration

My engraving over the original illustration taken from the book

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Clouds

A close up of the Clouds that I liked engraving so much

Me

Just a photo of me enjoying some engraving time

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