Am making an attempt to carve the bottom item below, but am stuck on how to carve the hair/mane.
The top one is walnut (I ditched it, and started over): the bottom mahogany.
Clearly, the eyes/mouth, well, I need more practice.
In addition to the above disclaimers, I copied the graphic from somewhere.
So, can you all give me some guidance and or possible pictures on how to best represent the hair/mane?
Have a lot of Basswood/butternut, but it is not quite wide enough, and is rather bland, right?
I suppose there are two questions here:
How to carve the hair/mane
Desirability of such a carving in basswood/butternut-bland, but way easier.....a very talented master in the Renaissance did a lot of exquisite Lime wood (Basswood) carvings....I am not him.
Here is what I have, which is just carving strands of hair w a #12 or #16 gouge:
Walnut hair.jpg
Mahogany Hair.JPG
I guess what I have now is a sort of negative representation of hair?
All input appreciated!
Thanks, David