ABHandmade Report post Posted January 22, 2019 (edited) When carving the portrait of my German Shepherd Gerda, I took a series of photos of the stages of work and collect them in the form of a short video. Hope this might be interesting to someone. PS. Criticism and advice will be accepted by me with gratitude. And I will be happy to answer questions if some moments of the creation process cause interest. Edited January 22, 2019 by ABHandmade Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
benlilly1 Report post Posted January 22, 2019 Great work and nice video of progression! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ABHandmade Report post Posted January 22, 2019 On 1/22/2019 at 9:02 PM, benlilly1 said: Great work and nice video of progression! Thank you for your compliment, @benlilly1! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alpha2 Report post Posted January 23, 2019 Absolutely amazing. Looks like a photograph. Jeff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DJole Report post Posted January 23, 2019 I enjoyed watching the time lapse video, paying attention to each step, then pausing the video and thinking about which tools and which techniques had just been used. The end result is a very nice piece of artwork. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ABHandmade Report post Posted January 23, 2019 On 1/23/2019 at 12:32 AM, alpha2 said: Absolutely amazing. Looks like a photograph. Jeff Thank you, Jeff! On 1/23/2019 at 12:44 AM, DJole said: I enjoyed watching the time lapse video, paying attention to each step, then pausing the video and thinking about which tools and which techniques had just been used. The end result is a very nice piece of artwork. Thanks, @DJole! Here, in addition to the obvious tools (swivel knife, hair blade, stamps F896, F895, B200, B935, F910, F902), several exotic ones were used. Mainly for wool and eye work. Sometime a neighbor came to visit us. She is a dentist and, seeing my stand with stamps, said jokingly, "Yes, it's just a dentist's office!". Thinking how best to work for embossing wool, I remembered this case and drove into the medical equipment store. It turned out that some of the tools were perfect for working "as is" and some I slightly modified. The undoubted advantages of these tools are the material (high-quality stainless steel) and a very small price (each cost me $ 2-3). Below - photo of those that I used in this work. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
spacedog Report post Posted February 2, 2019 That is very impressive. Well done. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lynxlady Report post Posted October 7, 2019 I enjoyed the video very much. I hope you have many more planned. I just can't get enough of seeing your work. I am entranced by it! Quote Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JLSleather Report post Posted October 7, 2019 How many people missed the fact that it's 4" x 5"? Tha's great detail in that size pic (plus, never tire of seeing your use of color). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ABHandmade Report post Posted October 7, 2019 On 10/7/2019 at 3:46 PM, Lynxlady said: I enjoyed the video very much. I hope you have many more planned. I just can't get enough of seeing your work. I am entranced by it! Thank you so much for this comment and for those that you left to a few more of my works! @JLSleather Jeff, thank you very much! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
robs456 Report post Posted October 20, 2019 Oh dam, I saw the thread title and thought it was about a dog carving, like 'Dog's playing poker".... Real nice dog carving tho, good job! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lynxlady Report post Posted December 13, 2019 Is there any chance that you might post a video of you working with those tools in the photo? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ABHandmade Report post Posted December 13, 2019 On 12/13/2019 at 8:33 PM, Lynxlady said: Is there any chance that you might post a video of you working with those tools in the photo? I am very sorry, but, unfortunately, shooting a video is definitely not the case in which I at least succeeded. My "ceiling" is to make a series of photos and animate them (as the first post of the topic heading). As soon as the camera turns on, I begin to twitch and make mistakes (a purely psychological effect). Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lynxlady Report post Posted December 14, 2019 Well, I wouldn't want to be responsible for a reaction like that! I'll be watching for future still shots of your work in progress! Thanks for sharing your wonderful talent with us. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
FLand49 Report post Posted May 10, 2020 Excellent. Thank you for sharing. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AzShooter Report post Posted May 11, 2020 Most excellent work and I loved the video as well. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites