If you found the channel helpful and want to give me a gift as a thank you, you can send me some Pokemon cards! I've been collecting them since they started coming out and always enjoy getting new cards! You can use my Amazon Wish List to send me a booster pack or two :) www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZTOOLYLZ7C48
If I might add to this excellent information...I get a lot of ideas from children's coloring books that I pick up for $1.00 at the Dollar Stores. Flowers, teddy bears, ducks etc. Trace them out or cut them out of the book.
I just got into carving and some of the stuff turned out pretty good thanks to your videos! I'm gonna try making all the characters from Winnie the Pooh as it's the best thing in this entire world. Wish me luck!
I love that I found this channel, I am a huge fan of creating stuff myself, like I love sewing, and I’m learning how to embroider which is pretty easy, and I really want to learn how to knit and I REALLY REALLY want to learn how to carve
@@CarvingisFun You are right, it is, I succeed maybe 1 time out of 5, but I think I fail at seeing the way to do it somehow... I've been carving since more than a year and a half, but never figured out , yet
@@Chlorophyle974 I think getting a 3D form for me is the hardest part too. I found it really useful to watch videos on drawing in 3D, even if you're not that much interested in drawing or anything like that, these videos can teach you how to see objects as 3D shapes as they are in real life, rather than relying on flat lines or the way we remember them in our head (which is often flawed). Then, I'll often have a look to see if the object I am carving has a 3D model online, e.g like on the website "sketchfab" you can look at 3D models of things and rotate them around. I did a deer carving recently and looking at photos really wasn't helping because they were often very flat and only from certain angles, looking at a 3D model allowed me to rotate it whichever way I wanted.
If you found the channel helpful and want to give me a gift as a thank you, you can send me some Pokemon cards! I've been collecting them since they started coming out and always enjoy getting new cards! You can use my Amazon Wish List to send me a booster pack or two :) www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZTOOLYLZ7C48
Love the vids and its great to see the fan base growing! I am actually going out today on a long drive to search my city for a carving store. I build houses myself and this has always been something i have found interesting. looking forward to my first Fox!
Super useful info, thanks for sharing! The winter here has made my hands idle and getting into whittling has been very beneficial for my own mental well being
Thanks for these video's, i've been searching for a hobby, just picked up 2 basic flex cuts, a hook knife, and some wood blocks. (and safety gear :P) Thanks for the inspiration and great videos, I'll be making spoons in no time!
Thanks so much again. I have a huge problem visualizing from a blank block of wood, and I am not artistically inclined! This is now where I beg you to post a tutorial of how to do the elephant, because the *only* thing my son wants a carving of is an elephant 😆
Indeed it is! I considered doing both on the channel, but for the same size carvings wood takes less than an hour while alabaster takes more than 5 hours. Soapstone is faster but doesn't hold up so well with smaller carvings. Just dont have the available time to do the stone carvings on video.
@@CarvingisFun A timelapse of stone carving without instructions would be really fascinating to watch, just to see your process and the object develop.🙂 The one you showed today was beautiful.
Worken on that, it requires me to use a rotary tool and is very messy. Plus I burnt out 4 dremels aready :) new, better, n more powerful rotary tool is on the way.
Great video! I have tried to carve a simple fish a few times from basswood. I have such a difficult time when I get to the tail/fins. I feel like it has to do with the wood grain but idk exactly what it is. Do you have any tips? I know this question is incredibly vague. But any help is appreciated. I just feel like I'm having a tough time roughing out wood. My knife is plenty stropped and sharp and good quality blade.
Yep, I know what you're talken bout! You want to carve a curve in the fish but the wood grain is causing problems. You may have to come in at two opposing curved angles and intersect the cutsat the point the wood grain changes. This video at the 3:42 mark goes over what I'm talking about ua-cam.com/video/mQmt9y0kIoI/v-deo.html
Hello! We just trimmed our apple trees and I was able to get some nice twigs from it. They're still green and a bit damp since we've had a bit of snow. How would I go about drying them? They're each about 3 feet long and about an inch thick at the widest part. Some of the projects I have in mind involve keeping some bark intact. Right now They're laying on a newspaper covered table in the basement. Should I hang them?
I am getting a little disheartened. I have been practicing every day, and I take the time to sharpen my beavercraft knives. No matter what I do, my cuts are always messy and splintered, especially with roughing. I ended up buying a whetstone to see if that would help, it hasn't. I've been using the beavercraft basswood. Could that be the issue?
Beavercraft knives are good to get started with, but they can leave a little to be desired. How bout this, send me an email at brian@carvingisfun.com and let me see what I can do for ya. Comment on here when ya do so I can keep an eye out for it.
Hello Carving is fun 👋, merci pour cette vidéo instructive. Je ne sais pas dessiner, pas même un croquis. Par contre je sais copier. Mais où puis-je trouver des croquis pour réaliser ces petits animaux que vous sculptez si bien ? Je vois que vous avez réalisé un écureuil posé sur un billot. Je voudrais pouvoir avec votre façon de préparer le morceau de bois tel le chien ou le renard, je voudrais faire aussi l’écureuil. J’ai déjà sculpté deux chiens et deux renards. Mon premier renard avait une tête trop longue qui ressemblait à un alligator :) . Mais j’ai pu rectifier la sculpture et finalement il a été bien réussi. Mon deuxième renard ėtait aussi beau que le vôtre et j’en suis fière. Mes amis me demandent ces animaux. Je les fais pour le plaisir et pour les offrir aussi. Vous mettez la sculptrice débutante que je suis très à l’aise et le travail accompli est encourageant grâce à vos descriptions et conseils de sculpture. Je vous regarde le plus souvent possible. C’est une vraie passion que vous m’avez transmise. Merci Michèle
Howdy! I'm working on making a page on my website with all of my sketches and templates so they can be downloaded. I will let you know when it is ready.
@@CarvingisFun bonsoir. Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse. Si en plus dans votre site web que vous préparer, vous y placez des silhouettes et dessins des petits sujets proposés, vous êtes extraordinairement gentil et généreux. En vous écrivant, je n’ai plus pensé au travail que vous préparez pour nous les débutants passionnés. Je vais tâcher de prendre patience. Mais je pense que je vous poserai encore quelques questions en attendant votre site. ;)
If you found the channel helpful and want to give me a gift as a thank you, you can send me some Pokemon cards!
I've been collecting them since they started coming out and always enjoy getting new cards! You can use my Amazon Wish List to send me a booster pack or two :) www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZTOOLYLZ7C48
I hope someone sends you some cards man :)
And i hope you Get some cool pulls! Love your content and Thanks for the knowledge and ideas
If I might add to this excellent information...I get a lot of ideas from children's coloring books that I pick up for $1.00 at the Dollar Stores. Flowers, teddy bears, ducks etc. Trace them out or cut them out of the book.
That is an excellent suggestion!! Just gonna pin this up to the top here so it gets more eyes on it :)
Cool.! 😁
I just got into carving and some of the stuff turned out pretty good thanks to your videos! I'm gonna try making all the characters from Winnie the Pooh as it's the best thing in this entire world. Wish me luck!
That sounds like a fun little project!! Have fun and good luck!
Amazing idea, I'm new into carving as well. It's very hard to start where do I widdle first.. Lowest point of the piece.. I'd love to carve Tigger
You made a gnome! Nice.
Also, your stone carvings look amazing wow.
Thanks!! I went all in on stone carving about 10 years ago, absolutely love the process. Verry messy though.
Thanks so much I just discovered how cool this hobby is I made a fox and a bunny using your videos thanks so much
You are so welcome!
@@CarvingisFun thanks
I love that I found this channel, I am a huge fan of creating stuff myself, like I love sewing, and I’m learning how to embroider which is pretty easy, and I really want to learn how to knit and I REALLY REALLY want to learn how to carve
Hardest part in my opinion is to go from 2D ( front and sides patterns) to a 3D form. I'd be definitly interested to learn how to do it !
Takes some practice but is completely doable:)
@@CarvingisFun You are right, it is, I succeed maybe 1 time out of 5, but I think I fail at seeing the way to do it somehow...
I've been carving since more than a year and a half, but never figured out , yet
@@Chlorophyle974 I think getting a 3D form for me is the hardest part too. I found it really useful to watch videos on drawing in 3D, even if you're not that much interested in drawing or anything like that, these videos can teach you how to see objects as 3D shapes as they are in real life, rather than relying on flat lines or the way we remember them in our head (which is often flawed). Then, I'll often have a look to see if the object I am carving has a 3D model online, e.g like on the website "sketchfab" you can look at 3D models of things and rotate them around. I did a deer carving recently and looking at photos really wasn't helping because they were often very flat and only from certain angles, looking at a 3D model allowed me to rotate it whichever way I wanted.
Hey I love your videos and I would love to see you do some stone carving videos as well as your carvings
With this information I’ll be able to make an army of carvings
After watching your videos I just bought my first set. Went with beavercraft, looking forward to the journey!
Your stone carvings are so beautiful!Thank you for this helpful Video 😃
Thank you! Cheers!
so helpful!
i love the gnome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks!
I ordered knives to get into whittling and im so excited, ty for motivating me!
You got this, have fun!!
If you found the channel helpful and want to give me a gift as a thank you, you can send me some Pokemon cards!
I've been collecting them since they started coming out and always enjoy getting new cards! You can use my Amazon Wish List to send me a booster pack or two :) www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1ZTOOLYLZ7C48
Love the vids and its great to see the fan base growing! I am actually going out today on a long drive to search my city for a carving store. I build houses myself and this has always been something i have found interesting.
looking forward to my first Fox!
Thanks for the videos, the new bunny and fox vids are great beginner projects!
I really want to do a wolf! Thanks so much for the great guides!
this is exactly what I needed
Love the way you teach us everything.like alot of videos leave alot out.Ty
Just FYI, I think you mean "planning" not "planing".
BTW, Just finished my first carving . . . made your running fox. Wife was delighted. Thanks.
Ha! Thank you. I can do the math but not spell :)
Super useful info, thanks for sharing! The winter here has made my hands idle and getting into whittling has been very beneficial for my own mental well being
Thank you, gonna try to apply this
Thanks for these video's, i've been searching for a hobby, just picked up 2 basic flex cuts, a hook knife, and some wood blocks. (and safety gear :P)
Thanks for the inspiration and great videos, I'll be making spoons in no time!
Very good explaination of patterns ..thank you so much
Thanks Gene!
Love your vids
Thank you!
Yourwelcome
Great ideas. Just what I needed.
Glad it was helpful!
Thanks so much again. I have a huge problem visualizing from a blank block of wood, and I am not artistically inclined!
This is now where I beg you to post a tutorial of how to do the elephant, because the *only* thing my son wants a carving of is an elephant 😆
I'll have an elephant on the next batch of tutorials im planning, this may be a little while down the road but it will be done :)
Awesome. I have been waiting for you to do this video! Thanks!
You're welcome!
such a good idea! thanks for the tips
You're welcome!
Thx a lot for this video!
My pleasure!
Try a Paddington bear pls that would look so cool
That would be a cute lil carving!! Gotta add that one to the list.
Well sir this is a good video, I am surprised for what I accomplished with your videos keep it up ✌🏻👊🏻🤟🏻
Thanks!! Im happy that others are able to learn and grow from them!
Great video keep it up
Thanks!
I love the gnome!!
Thanks for sharing
Tutorial on the gnome ?
Hoping to have the gnome done by this weekend.
Do you think you could try doing a shark? Love the simplicity of your carvings!
I havenplans for a shark, just dont know when I will get to it yet.
Woah, stonecarving too? I imagine that's a whole different set of tools, huh? Have you considered doing stonecarving videos as well as woodcarving?
Indeed it is!
I considered doing both on the channel, but for the same size carvings wood takes less than an hour while alabaster takes more than 5 hours. Soapstone is faster but doesn't hold up so well with smaller carvings. Just dont have the available time to do the stone carvings on video.
@@CarvingisFun A timelapse of stone carving without instructions would be really fascinating to watch, just to see your process and the object develop.🙂 The one you showed today was beautiful.
I may consider adding them in every now n then :)
I love that you searched for "Bunny".
Have you done any videos to show your work in alabaster?
Worken on that, it requires me to use a rotary tool and is very messy. Plus I burnt out 4 dremels aready :) new, better, n more powerful rotary tool is on the way.
Great video! I have tried to carve a simple fish a few times from basswood. I have such a difficult time when I get to the tail/fins. I feel like it has to do with the wood grain but idk exactly what it is. Do you have any tips? I know this question is incredibly vague. But any help is appreciated. I just feel like I'm having a tough time roughing out wood. My knife is plenty stropped and sharp and good quality blade.
Yep, I know what you're talken bout! You want to carve a curve in the fish but the wood grain is causing problems.
You may have to come in at two opposing curved angles and intersect the cutsat the point the wood grain changes.
This video at the 3:42 mark goes over what I'm talking about ua-cam.com/video/mQmt9y0kIoI/v-deo.html
@@CarvingisFun Thank you so much!! I think this will help!
tutorial how to make the gnome?
Hopefully I can complete the tutorial by this weekend :)
hello, can you tell me what kind of basswood it is? I bought basswood but it is hard.
I use air dried basswood from a guy on ebay. I also did a video comparing different brands of basswood here ua-cam.com/video/uH5jNGgS7Tg/v-deo.html
Hello! We just trimmed our apple trees and I was able to get some nice twigs from it. They're still green and a bit damp since we've had a bit of snow. How would I go about drying them? They're each about 3 feet long and about an inch thick at the widest part. Some of the projects I have in mind involve keeping some bark intact. Right now They're laying on a newspaper covered table in the basement. Should I hang them?
just keep them open to the air in a dry spot away from the elements.
Honestly, give it a shot carving them green as you may enjoy it better :)
@@CarvingisFun Okay thank you!
I am getting a little disheartened. I have been practicing every day, and I take the time to sharpen my beavercraft knives. No matter what I do, my cuts are always messy and splintered, especially with roughing. I ended up buying a whetstone to see if that would help, it hasn't. I've been using the beavercraft basswood. Could that be the issue?
Beavercraft knives are good to get started with, but they can leave a little to be desired. How bout this, send me an email at brian@carvingisfun.com and let me see what I can do for ya. Comment on here when ya do so I can keep an eye out for it.
Hello Carving is fun 👋, merci pour cette vidéo instructive. Je ne sais pas dessiner, pas même un croquis. Par contre je sais copier. Mais où puis-je trouver des croquis pour réaliser ces petits animaux que vous sculptez si bien ? Je vois que vous avez réalisé un écureuil posé sur un billot. Je voudrais pouvoir avec votre façon de préparer le morceau de bois tel le chien ou le renard, je voudrais faire aussi l’écureuil.
J’ai déjà sculpté deux chiens et deux renards. Mon premier renard avait une tête trop longue qui ressemblait à un alligator :) . Mais j’ai pu rectifier la sculpture et finalement il a été bien réussi. Mon deuxième renard ėtait aussi beau que le vôtre et j’en suis fière. Mes amis me demandent ces animaux. Je les fais pour le plaisir et pour les offrir aussi. Vous mettez la sculptrice débutante que je suis très à l’aise et le travail accompli est encourageant grâce à vos descriptions et conseils de sculpture. Je vous regarde le plus souvent possible. C’est une vraie passion que vous m’avez transmise. Merci
Michèle
Howdy!
I'm working on making a page on my website with all of my sketches and templates so they can be downloaded. I will let you know when it is ready.
@@CarvingisFun bonsoir. Merci beaucoup pour votre réponse. Si en plus dans votre site web que vous préparer, vous y placez des silhouettes et dessins des petits sujets proposés, vous êtes extraordinairement gentil et généreux.
En vous écrivant, je n’ai plus pensé au travail que vous préparez pour nous les débutants passionnés. Je vais tâcher de prendre patience. Mais je pense que je vous poserai encore quelques questions en attendant votre site. ;)
what do you use to glue the picture to the wood?
Just regular craft glue or wood glue
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