I got a request to do a humming bird coin. I looked and looked and could not find a cuttable humming bird line drawing that would translate well to a pattern. Finally, I gave up, found a line drawing that was not cuttable, and then went to thickening the lines and taking out the extra detail to make it doable. This is what I came up with:
I'm not happy with this yet. I've tweaked the pattern and am re-cutting now, hopefully getting closer to what I'm wanting. I envy the pattern makers that can draw/create patterns from scratch. I have to rely on images.google.com to get something close, then tweak it into something workable. At some point, I would like to hook up with a true artist to really bring these projects to another level.