Is there another name for gold leaf/organic designs? Any tips on how to make them?

Question

I really like the look of the gold leaf/organic designs that people put behind their main work (often a crest of some sort, or another logo). But I can't figure out another name for it or find somewhere that has an explanation of how to design them myself. Help, please?

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http://benblogged.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/gold_leaf2.jpg

http://vector4free.com/_images/vectors/normal/19.png

http://api.ning.com/files/WNP8iHKf9ccx6xHuh1XUe8OLW0qzpR8ICUnQPZ6Rseo_/Luther_Artwurks_Crest_by_luther1000.jpg

Those are the best examples I could find.

Answer 1

Those sort of designs are a baroque patterns or baroque vectors most people draw them on a program called Adobe Illustrator there are some good tutorials on how to do them,

here is a link to one tutorial on how to draw them with Adobe Illustrator,  http://graphics-illustrations.com/2007/1...

I couldn't find any tutorials to draw them freehand, if you want to do them that way then I think you would just have to draw them from imagination. Hope this helped you,

Answer 2

Mayeb more rococo than baroque, I feel.