Santa Eyes

[Bandaid]

Great tutorial Susan, thanks for sharing.

[Ron D]

thankssusan
that will come in real handy,wifie wants me to carve here a santa for her mother wasnt real sure how i was gonna do it and you gave me some good ideas for the face.
thanks for sharing that with us susan
ron

Susan,

Your a true professional in every way, thanks so much for your direction on carving & painting eyes, I will definitly attempt my next carving in that perspective.

[Mottles]

Ice Cream Susan, I'm always so amazed at how talented you are. Not only that you are always so generous with sharing how you go about creating your work.
Thank you so much,
Kathy

[Alice in Wonderland]

thank you so much Susan I really enjoyed (and can use) your tutorials and as everybody said before there is always so much room for learning more.
Thank you again
Alice

[Kenny_S]

Outstanding tutorial susan, Thanks for going beyond the usual for us. Hope to one day return the favor.

But I do have a question or maybe a statement and not meant to offend anyone, But, The distance between the eyes shouuld be an eye's length or have I been told wrong. I like yours but was wondering. Not that my eyes are any good on my carvings.

Thanks

[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Nahhh Susan is more prone to those beady narrow between the eyes types LOL

[MelNM]

Wow, Susan this was more than I expected, I'll post that wizard pic and the Santa Pictures for you tonight. Thanks alot this was really a great help
Mel

[Irish]

Kenny, You are absolutely right! If you go back to the first post and notice the earliest carving image you can see my grid work marked in with colored pencils.

If you use the length of the human eye as your unit of measurement and create a grid of squares the average male's face is eight units high and five units wide. The top of the curve of the upper eye lid falls right on the center line as does the bridge of the nose. The facial features therefore fall into the lower half of the grid and is worked within the lower rectangle of five wide and four high.

The nose line falls vertically down this grid and is one unit - one eye width - wide. Now that includes the sides of the nose and the roll area into the corner of the eyes. The eyes take up the next unit grids and the corner of the eyes are one unit - one eye width - apart. That places the iris right in the center of their unit ... the irises are two units apart.

The outer edge of the nostrils fall directly below the inner corner of the eyes and the outer points of the mouth fall directly below the center of the iris.

Confused ... We have an image posted on our site that makes this more understandable:
www.CarvingPatterns.com/woodarticles/instruc4.htm

So, yes, if I had stuck to my original sketch instead of exaggerating the eyes and width of the nose at the nostrils the final carving would have been much more true to live ...Grin!

Susan

[Irish]

Here ya go ... the one image is the final carving with the grid in place and you can see that my eyes ended up tight with an over sized nose. The second is the "correct" placement of where each facial part should have been had the carving been worked true to proportions and positions.

Wood spirits, at least mine, tend to have exaggerations that make them delightful. These oversized features can, as in this carving, throw you off the original grid work.

Susan
(((Ahh, shoot! It was just a quick and dirty carving to get something done to paint the eyes on to answer the PM .... Sigh! Grin!!!!))))