Roland T Posted July 18, 2017 Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 Working on this cow bone mermaid - first mermaid I have done. I would really like to get good at mermaids! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niky Posted July 18, 2017 Report Share Posted July 18, 2017 man you have way to go! before you show stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jim K Jordan Posted July 19, 2017 Report Share Posted July 19, 2017 Good effort, the harder the challenge, the more the reward. Keep working on it, it has some promise. Figures are tough to do, beautiful figures like mermaids are even tougher. I tried to do a female centaur in wax for casting, never got the face right. Body was good, butter faced. Jim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew V Posted July 24, 2017 Report Share Posted July 24, 2017 People/figure carving is the hardest of all the carving disciplines. Working at that scale magnifies the level of difficulty. Like Jim said there is good work in this piece but my recommendation would be to get a cube of really hard timber, like hornbeam, or hawthorn, and spend some time carving faces into the edges of the block. You can work up a dozen practice faces in even a small cube . If you check out my blog posts on figurehead carving there might be some tips you can use, you need to go to December 2015 https://stuckinthemudsite.wordpress.com/page/5/ although there is a part 2 and 3 later on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roland T Posted August 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted August 8, 2017 Thanks! Yes I'll try to practice some more faces - that is the hard part! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Moir Posted January 28, 2018 Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 On 2017-07-18 at 5:53 AM, niky said: man you have way to go! before you show stuff This the reason why many of us are hesitant to share our work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus C. Posted March 7, 2018 Report Share Posted March 7, 2018 I thought it a harsh comment too. What`s wrong with a novice showing what they are doing? I cant offer any advice, except keep plugging, carving away. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
steveo Posted November 7, 2018 Report Share Posted November 7, 2018 Keep it up, it's an addictive and rewarding thing the carving path! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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