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08-31-2007, 08:59 PM
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 A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood Ok .. So here goes .. Another project for beginners .. A simple Hillbilly out of a block of wood ... But this one is a little bit more of a challenge for the beginner .. A figure with a hat ... So Iam going to make it as simple as possible .. So please bear with me because there are 60 photos involved where the last tutorial was 46 photo's .. I hope all you beginning carvers get some kind of help from this .. Good luck .. The entire figure is carved from basswood with only a knife and a small v-tool .. So here goes .. Gene 1. The Block ( 1 inch x 1 inch x 6 inches high ) 2. Draw for hat .. measure 1 1/2 inches from the top of the block and draw a line in the front of the block .. Turn over to the back of the block and measure 2 inches from the top of the block and draw a line .. connect the lines as in photo on both sides .. 3.Separate the hat from the body .. 4.In the front of the block . measure 2 inches down from the top of the hat and draw a line for the bottom of the beard .. 5.From the bottom line of the beard . on both sides of the block draw a line connecting the back of the hat to the bottom of the beard as in photo ..
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08-31-2007, 09:06 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 6. Separate the beard from the body on all sides .. 7. Measure up 3/8 inch from bottom of block and draw for shoe's .. 8. Separate feet from body .. 9.Side view of beard and feet cut's .. 10. Begin to shape back of hat ..
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08-31-2007, 09:13 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 11.Shaping back of hat with v cut's ... 12. Shaping side of hat with v cuts... 13. Shaping front of hat with v cut's .. 14. Shaping the face for nose .. 15. Drawing the nose ...
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08-31-2007, 09:17 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 16.Cut for nose ... 17.Shaping the nose ... 18.Drawing the mustache .. 19.Cutting out the mustache .. 20.Drawing to separate the beard from face ..
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08-31-2007, 09:21 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 21.Cut to separate beard from face .. 22.Front view of beard and face ... 23. Shaping front of body ... 24. Shaping side of body .. 25.. Drawing for right side of arm ...
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08-31-2007, 09:27 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 26. Shaping the front of the arm .. 27. Drawing for arm in back of figure .. 28. Cut for back of arm ... 29.Drawing for hand ... 30. Separating hand from arm ...
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08-31-2007, 09:32 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 31. Drawing for left side arm .. 32.Under left arm cut for back of arm .. 33. Shaping the front of arm .. 34.Cut to separate hand from pocket .. 35.Draw and cut for back of arm on figure ..
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08-31-2007, 09:38 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 36. Drawing for back of pant leg's .. 37. Cut for back of pant leg's ... 38.Drawing to separte pant leg from shoe's .. 39. Cut to separate pant leg from shoe's .. 40. Drawing to separate shoes ..
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08-31-2007, 09:43 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 41.Cut to separate shoes ... 42. Drawing to separate front pant's leg's .. 43. Cut to separate front pant's leg's ... 44.Cut to separate belly from leg's .. 45. View of leg and belly cut's ..
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08-31-2007, 09:48 PM
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| Re: A Beginners Tutorial On Carving A Simple Hillbilly Out Of A Block Of Wood 46.V cut's to get wrinkles in pant's .. 47. Shaping hat with v cut's .. 48.Shaping back of hat with v cut's 49.Shaping front of hat with v cut's 50. Cut v cuts for facial eye's ..
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