Tom H. Santa Study Stick Tutorial

[Micky]

This tutorial is wonderful, and I really like the bigger pictures--makes all of the details come alive for me. Maybe you could get BobD to sticky it for all of us beginers??
thanks again
micky

[Thomp]

done micky,

anybody carve it yet?

[Gooch]

Hi,
I am into wood spirits as you know and I am looking for different beard designs.
Anyone with any links to a site that could give me some new ideas on beards???
Thanks a lot

[dmatias]

Great tutorial guys. I cut and pasted it into Word and will try it very soon. Nice to see a free tutorial so well prepared and done. Cudos.

[woodspiritslover]

Tom, Huge thanks. the printout of this page with my knife and piece of wood will be with me on my next two weeks vacation. Wish me luck. I will manage to learn woodcarving at any cost....

[PeteM]

Thank you for this tutorial. I am quite new to carving and this is my first attempt at a face, beard carving and painting together. The eyes didn't go on that well, and he looks a bit morose for a Santa...

I'm now trying to make a fatter, jollier Santa on the same pattern, and experimenting with carving eyes.

Thanks again.

[Thomp]

You did a fine job for a first head, mine looked goulish...
eyes are still tough for me, as well..
here is a tutorial on eyes you can try, from Texas woodcarvers it may help. later you can change it to the look you want specifically.

[Gulf Coast Handyman]

Excellent tutorial, thanks very much !! Ice Cream

Dave
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[Hi_Ho_Sliver]

Originally Posted by PeteM

Thank you for this tutorial. I am quite new to carving and this is my first attempt at a face, beard carving and painting together. The eyes didn't go on that well, and he looks a bit morose for a Santa...

I'm now trying to make a fatter, jollier Santa on the same pattern, and experimenting with carving eyes.

Thanks again.

If you hold your santa up and hold one finger in front of his eyes, you will see he has a pretty jolly look on his face, its the angled eyes, that make him look more serious...kind of hump up the top center of the eye opening (like a camels hump) and I think he will look jollier...great start tho....

[Thomp]

like Hi_Ho said i think your doing pretty good on the jolliness of the face, Eyes look as if they were painted on a flat place though,.

several things can effect the stern gaze in eyes,
focusing the pupil straight ahead is something you don't want necessarily in a charter.. unless you want the charter to be expressing a thought of "what now?" where the caricature is looking to you for an answer or understanding its situation...
if you don't get the pupils exactly right it will make a goggled eye charter and distract from the overall carving,

but if you turn the eyes a little off side center like the carter was distracted and glanced away, it helps., you still get the great eyes without the gazing stare,, which can be mistaken for mad or stern,,

eyebrows have a lot with the emotion shown through the eyes, the outside ends turned up can give a demonic look, with the ends down effect the same,, but the ends

Eyes, are difficult until you think of a cross section profile of what your trying to accomplish.

but its as hard to draw as it is to understand so i hope the point is reflected in the line on the left side of the image,,, attached,,,
Below is a side view cross section view in black on the left side of the image..