You don’t need a bachelors degree for tracing sketches.

@@juanmendez3212 bro, if you think thats what it is, you need to learn a little bit more before you comment. Maybe yeah we dont need a bachelors to learn engraving, then the person needs to put in a similar amount of time to the practice. A bachelors degree does that, allows people to put in years into the practice.

@@Thisworldisagoner I do engraves. Nothing hard about it but I get it. Seems some of y’all got all sensitive. Funny stuff I tell ya

@@juanmendez3212 wow you must have the gift from god then. Since its so easy for you. Well good for you

@@Thisworldisagoner bow down to the all mighty.

100% what brought me here too

thats the secret.. why would you feel entitled to know it for free?

@@devinmichaelroberts9954 Hhh... I just clicked on a video entitled "the engraver's process", but doesn't show the process, because according to you it's a "secret"... Keep your secret, I'm not one of the 3 people in this country who care, let alone pay for it. The real question is: why would the poster feel entitled to post clickbait and not be called a douchebag?

@@altar7885 do you even understand english?

Exactly what I wanted, to see the etching part, the different tools. I can't find any video out there showing how they made those perfect hatching back in the 18th century...

Manual or -graver-- pushing is one of the most trying of the artist/craftsperson's patients, when it comes to art creation processes.

You got me until you said true art...dude...come on. It’s actually better off to make prints of artwork to sell it and charge even more money for the original prints just to get them out there then to just make the originals. Secondly, printmaking is to printers as water is to H₂O. Both are equivalent in efficiency as well as well as being a medium. Presses and printers don’t have to exist, we could just do everything by hand. I’m sure you could replicate the art the people did with some cheap BIC pens and a loose leaf paper and draw it over and over. Or is the subject on the medium more important? If someone created the same artwork on photoshop and somebody else did some trash unrealistic not classy art with a copper plate and a printing press would it be true art? I mean, I ask myself these questions as an art major quite often because my professor is a bonehead and says crap like this. Printers are exactly the same as a printing press except printers are more efficient, tend to make things very similar looking and uniform, and are consistent with printing colors. Is it really the technology or you just really like the art? Also IT means information technology.

@@keepyourshoesathedoor Hi. I really appreciate your elaborate comment. In my opinion, it is an art because of the process. Engraving on metal by hand or using acids, drawing, knowing your process and materials is making it a form of art. Today, machines can do almost everything. But when you use a pen to draw on metal and then use chemicals to etch...is a process that I consider art. I work with metal so I understand what he is doing. Art is not just unique items. I do some linoleum printing from time to time. I carve my designs in my hand. Sometimes I apply them on metal and I etch. From there is a wide range of possibilities. Every person who is using old techniques to make beautiful things...is an artist in my opinion. Of course, every person sees things differently. When Guttenberg printed the first pages...it was a productive multiplying or a form of art?

@@keepyourshoesathedoor ah, I remember when I was a douchebag college student. Don't worry, you'll grow out of it.

You are right! Engraving is a very demanding job. But it is a very traditional and preferred art branch. Don't think it's difficult, you can get experience in a short time. It will take you a short time to become a master at engraving. It is always easier to carve. Progressing by diminishing the existing is not something related to the creative side of the human being. Therefore, engraving is not difficult for us artists, it is only traditionally defined.

@@peraera5241 hatching is much harder to master than painting, just look at zorn, you can look close at his paintings, copy the value/saturation/hue at each point and pretty easily make a study that looks very close to the original, but try to copy one of his etchings and thats another story even if you try to do it in pen it's far more challenging than oil painting where you can just paint what you see instead of translating all forms into lines

@@peraera5241 Short time to master engraving? Easier to carve? I know some "professional" artists myself, (including a few carvers and sculptors) that have many many years on me and create works that demand decent price tags. They are so humble, that they do not even consider themselves a master of their respective crafts. Yet, they do consider themselves pros at their craft. Those artists I know have practiced for decades and became skilled enough to make a name for themselves while making a good living selling their artworks. Life is short but I would argue that it takes most people 10,000 plus hours of practice, let alone experience, to even be possibly considered being at the "mastery" level at anything that necessitates skill.