Tiger and water

[ABHandmade]

1 hour ago, RockyAussie said:

WOW!!!!!! ...its been awhile since I followed anyone. You just got another one. Took me 10 minutes to remember you got to go to the persons profile to follow them

Sir, this is a great honor for me. No kidding!

[spacedog]

Amazing work. Just amazing. Wow.

[ABHandmade]

Thank you, @spacedog!

 

[Scoutmom103]

You do amazing work.  So life like.

[bullmoosepaddles]

Gorgeous work. The reality is stunning. I showed the picture to the misses. She loves all things feline. Her comment was I hope who ever took that picture made it out alive that is really close. I think you hit this one out of the park so to speak. 

Do you keep track of hours spent on each project? If so and it is not being to forward. How many hours do you spend on a piece of this quality?

 

Thank you for sharing 

Gene       

[ABHandmade]

7 hours ago, Scoutmom103 said:

You do amazing work.  So life like.

Thank you, @Scoutmom103!

 

46 minutes ago, bullmoosepaddles said:

Gorgeous work. The reality is stunning. I showed the picture to the misses. She loves all things feline. Her comment was I hope who ever took that picture made it out alive that is really close. I think you hit this one out of the park so to speak. 

Do you keep track of hours spent on each project? If so and it is not being to forward. How many hours do you spend on a piece of this quality?

Thank you for such compliments, Gene!

This work took about 100 hours of pure time. Of these, 5–7 hours are the preparation of a contour image on a computer  (I do the tracing only manually), 35–40 hour - carving, modeling, embossing, the rest of the time - coloring and finishing.

UPD. Probably, this is quite a long time, because, unfortunately, I don’t have any artistic education, so each new work is at the same time a kind of teaching and working out some techniques.

Andrey.

Edited May 16, 2019 by ABHandmade

[Rockoboy]

On ‎5‎/‎17‎/‎2019 at 1:37 AM, ABHandmade said:

I don’t have any artistic education

You have no formal training? Then you have an enormous amount of ability!

[ABHandmade]

6 hours ago, Rockoboy said:

You have no formal training? Then you have an enormous amount of ability!

Thank you, Brian! 

Unfortunately, the lack of formal training is a more significant factor

[mikesc]

One cannot teach talent, one cannot learn talent..one can only teach techniques, or learn techniques..

Don't worry about your lack of formal training in art..You have both the talent, and the technical ability, the "techniques" you'll pick up, they'll save you some time is all..

Many artists find their "calling" later in life..

Some just get immense satisfaction out of creating..applies to many here..

Many who do not have enough talent waste years at art schools..and are never able to use ( in any creative way ) the techniques that they were shown, due to lack of talent..Most of them become teachers..Other do something else entirely.

Some both teach ( for a while, to see if they like it, and it is a good "backstop" ) and make a living out of creating.

Some of us make "creating art" their career and life..the "art schools" just showed us the techniques that we'd have mostly found anyway.

What is important is that every minute of your life counts..you only have a limited number of them in a lifetime..don't waste any of them doing something that you don't enjoy :)

Edited May 18, 2019 by mikesc

[ABHandmade]

@mikesc

Mike, thank you so much for the wisdom, kind words and support!