It's all HEAT CONTROL! I couldn't made a darn scrol for the life of me and took me a few years. Yes, working on the side of the flame and not directily in the flame so the stringer melts helps.
Kerri Fuhlr has the best tutorial on scroll work it's called New Tapestry Scroll work! I's incredible!!! and it helped me tremendously- buy it!!!
BTW I wouldn't bother drawing them out. you could Start with a large 'S' shape and do small S's off of that or overlapping your S shapes
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