Carving A Little Guy Face In The Flat Plane Style

gene messer · #1 07-08-2007, 06:14 AM

Ok .. So here goes .. I was ask to display a tutorial in carving a little guy in the flat plane style .. But because of time and work .. That was not possible .. So I decided to quickly try a simple face in this style .. And this is my first attempt at this .. So dont laugh ...

I will not go into a long spill on each step for time ... .. So here goes ..

I hope I do a fairly decent job ..

The figure is a 3 inch figure and is 3 inches high .. and 1 1/8 inches wide ..

!. The Cutout

2. Separating The Head From the Body

3.Begining the rounding of the Head

4. Rounding for the Nose

5. Cut for the Nose

gene messer · #2 07-08-2007, 06:21 AM

6. The Nose

7.Separating for the hair and Ears

8.Cut for hair and ears

9.Drawing sideburns and ears

10. Cut for positioning hair and ears

gene messer · #3 07-08-2007, 06:29 AM

11. Separating the side burns from the ear

12.Cutting the outside of the ear

13.Forming the ear

14.Penciling the face

15.Cutting the face (Deep cuts)

gene messer · #4 07-08-2007, 06:38 AM

16. Cutting the mouth .. (simple cut on each side)

17.Shaping the chin

18.Shaping the back of the head

19.The face almost finished for the eyes and hair

20. Face with eye's ( a simple slant cut on each side ) and hair added with v -tool
Clean up the cut's and there it is ..

Joy · #5 07-08-2007, 06:46 AM

Gene, good job. The steps made sense and the pictures showed what you were talking about. Good tutorial.

Banjo · #6 07-08-2007, 07:31 AM

Gene, I like your carvings so much and have always wanted to try carve one myself. Now I don't have any excuse! Thanks for the tutorial. It's great!

Tom H · #7 07-08-2007, 08:18 AM

Thank you Gene! Excellent tutorial. I am sure there will be a lot of folks givin it a try. Which translates into lot and lots of little guys on the way. Way to go! Guys like you help everyone try new things and we all benefit. Thanks again, Tom H

GeorgiaCarver · #8 07-08-2007, 08:51 AM

Thanks Gene, you just helped a bunch of people figure out flat plane carving, at least just a little :>)

Very nice job and thank you for posting.

Greg

wood-whittler · #9 07-08-2007, 11:29 AM

gene,

great job on the tutorial, very informative.

bart

squbrigg · #10 07-08-2007, 12:13 PM

Well done Gene, you make it look so easy! Thanks for taking the time to lay that out.

Bob