[Callynne]

Nancy, excellent start on your wart hog, the eyes are really looking great already!! Can't wait to see him finished! Deborah

[Nancy-ID]

Originally Posted by Hi_Ho_Sliver

Who did you get to volunteer as a model? lol good warthog...hummm never thought I would say that!!

Well I do have a pet Pot-bellied pig that I have been harassing. The head didn't help any but now I am checking out his legs and butt, he isn't too happy about it being the grump he is.

[Nancy-ID]

Originally Posted by Carolina Carver

Nancy:
great job on the wart hog will you texture it or burn the texture in.

Hi Mark,

I am going to texture and burn. They are pretty hairless so I need to find a way to texture in rough,bumpy skin and then they have some very long hair along the top of the neck and a few other places that I will texture in and then burn to get the individual hairs.

Anyone have a method of making small bumps in skin?

[wade clark]

Originally Posted by Nancy-CA

Hi Mark,

I am going to texture and burn. They are pretty hairless so I need to find a way to texture in rough,bumpy skin and then they have some very long hair along the top of the neck and a few other places that I will texture in and then burn to get the individual hairs.

Anyone have a method of making small bumps in skin?

Nancy,
Check out Wood Carving Illustrated, Summer 2005, pages 45 through 47. The article is Burning Realistic Texture, and has an incredible wealth of knowledge and pictures, including telling what nib or tip and the technique used. Sue Walters is the incredible artist that put the article together. Very impressibe! Makes me want to get started...I've got a great burner but haven't tried it out yet!
Have fun!
Wade

[squbrigg]

Nancy, there is a technique to make bumps, though I haven't used it myself yet. Read about it in the British carving magazine. You soak the area with water and while still wet, strike/hit the wood hard with a rounded object, like a small ball peen hammer or smaller or rounded/shaped nail, and then you sand the depression down to the surface level. As the wood fibers dry , they expand back to their uncompressed size and form a bump. They explain it better than I can, but try it on some scrap wood first to experiment. Good luck.

Bob

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

actually...to get the bumps its a little different but Bob is on the right track............take a stylist, old (dry) ball point pen or something with the diameter of the bumps you want and press it into the wood...don't strike it hard with a hammer or get carried away, remember you have to sand the surface down to the bottom of the dents you make! after you put in the dents you want and sand the surface so that all the dents are gone, then...put the water on the surface, again, don't get carried away, the water will cause the wood to swell up and return to the height it was before you dented it. I used this on the sides of a couple of fish I carved for the ridge down the side, works great. Its easy to do, but I still suggest you take a piece of scrap wood and play with it first.....

[Mryooper]

Looks very nice.

[jax]

Good work on the rough-out.........that's half the battle. Looking forward to the finished carving.

That's an odd subject to carve....how did you decide to carve it??

Jax

[Nancy-ID]

Originally Posted by jax

Good work on the rough-out.........that's half the battle. Looking forward to the finished carving.

That's an odd subject to carve....how did you decide to carve it??

Jax

Thanks Jax. My sister-in-law collects African animals and put in a request for one. Was either a wart hog or an Antalope looking thing. Thought I could fake the Warthog better

[Nancy-ID]

Originally Posted by Hi_Ho_Sliver

actually...to get the bumps its a little different but Bob is on the right track............take a stylist, old (dry) ball point pen or something with the diameter of the bumps you want and press it into the wood...don't strike it hard with a hammer or get carried away, remember you have to sand the surface down to the bottom of the dents you make! after you put in the dents you want and sand the surface so that all the dents are gone, then...put the water on the surface, again, don't get carried away, the water will cause the wood to swell up and return to the height it was before you dented it. I used this on the sides of a couple of fish I carved for the ridge down the side, works great. Its easy to do, but I still suggest you take a piece of scrap wood and play with it first.....

Bob & Hi_Ho, thanks for that tip. I tried it this morning ( at 5am, whatever happened to reading the paper with your coffee?) anyway, it works great! Incredible