[Alice in Wonderland]

I am trying to carve a man with a cruel mouth no matter what I try he ends up nice? how would you describe a cruel mouth? or carve it?
Alice

[susieq]

perhaps very thin lips, the line between the lips being almost straight or slightly curved downward like an upside down smile, with a very slight turn down at each end... I think you should probably sketch it on a piece of paper first. Also, cruelty is in the eyes too....not just the mouth. Perhaps eyes that have narrowed in suspicion...a brow that is creased between the eyes a bit.... I am guessing here, Alice but a pencil with a good eraser and a sketch pad to try all this on first, would be helpful to you. Good luck.

[Lynn O. Doughty]

Go to a mirror with a camera, make a face and take a picture. That's the way I do it. Works every time!

[Tom H]

Alice, The next time I try to carve a happy face I'll take notes. Cause every time I start out to do a happy face it turns out mean lookin....Tom H

[kitaye]

In cartooning the cruel mouth is thin, straight lips and the eyebrows pulled down at the bridge of the nose. Perhaps a book on cartooning would make a good reference for facial features as they tend to be simple lines.

[Alice in Wonderland]

I had to laugh ,looking into the mirror ,I see an old face, but a happy face . will not work Lynn lol but I shall try maybe when I look at my husband?????? Joke aside ,it is a good idea , the thin line Susieg ,I thought of too, I do have a book of cartoons ,never thought of looking in there
Thanks everybody
Alice

[Eddy Smiles]

Alice... Perhaps you can't carve a cruel face because you don't have a cruel bone in your body. The mind cannot carve that which it does not know! Or so I've been told by an ancient Chinese sage! Ha! Ha!

[Alice in Wonderland]

Eddy Thank you,"In the real World as in dreams,nothing is quite what it seems" unknown.
Maybe you are right ,I rescue a fly .
Alice

[Eddy Smiles]

"The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world." -Zhuang Tzi