Gargoyle Carving

[azrider]

This was my first attempt at figure carving. I traced the design from an ad, and gave the shop the piece. It was fun to do, but has lots of room for improvment. Suggestions welcome.

[Greybeard]

This was my first attempt at figure carving. I traced the design from an ad, and gave the shop the piece. It was fun to do, but has lots of room for improvment. Suggestions welcome.

Nice back ground work. The Figure beveling could use some smoothing (walking ), over all not bad

We look forward to more pics, Don't worry we all get better as we go on

Edited January 30, 2009 by Greybeard

[kiwidownunder]

Great work for the first atempt. You will find with each one you do, The more life like they will become.

My one suggestion for now, as practise is all you need really, is if you have a modelling tool with a large spoon type end, once you have finished bevelling rub the bevelled edge smooth.

Or If you are only going to antique finish the item, bevel with a check beveller. This makes it look more even, if if it is not. Hard to see in the photo which beveller you used.

Look forward to seeing your next carving. Keep it up.

Kiwi.

Edited January 30, 2009 by kiwidownunder

[azrider]

Thanks for the suggestions. I need to work more on the beveling, and have been having trouble with keeping that smooth. I used a smooth bevler on the carvings, but used a checked on around the circle for the backgrounding. I just got the checked one, and only have it in one size, so didn't want do this one with it yet. This was also the first time I tried carving the lettering instead of stamping it. I ended up doing all of the letters with a really small bevel. One question, I have a modleing spoon tool I got with one of the "standard kits" when I was getting back into leather working. Every time I tried to use it, it burnished the leather much darker then areas where I didn't use it. Is that normal?

Edited January 31, 2009 by azrider