Wood carving tutorial video for beginners

Wood carving tutorial for beginners is as follows:

Take the moonflower leaves as an example. Material: linden (texture is relatively soft, easy to get on and carve, for the carving tools are not skilled enough beginners are more suitable for out of the work). Tools to be prepared: wire saw, hand carving knife, sandpaper.

1, carving leaf prototype: first on the paper to draw a favorite and simple leaf outline.

2, cut out the leaf, put it on the board and trace it along the edge, then use the wire saw to saw the leaf off the board.

3. Use an exacto knife to trim the edges along the lines. Trim slowly, bit by bit, don't rush it in case you ruin the wood or hurt your hand.

4, on the repaired large outline, draw the leaf thickness and repair the thickness of the two sides. Do not repair the petiole first, in the back to repair the curvature and digging concave, there will be more focus on the petiole, to avoid breaking the petiole because of failure to grasp the force.

5, dig out the leaf concave, so that the leaf looks a little curved, curved.

6. Refurbish the details and fine the petiole. Then use the carving knife to the leaf edges and corners, such as the leaf blade front and back of the tip of the leaf, the edge of the leaf blade, etc. carefully repaired, this time you can trim the petiole fine, carve out the petiole of the stereotypes.

7, sanding: 120 grit sandpaper and 240 grit sandpaper were used to sand every place of the leaf, so that it looks smooth, texture is more delicate, glossy, and feel better.

8, painting veins: after sanding, you can use a black paintbrush to draw veins on the front and back of the leaf.

9, carve the leaf veins: in accordance with the drawing of the leaf vein pattern carving leaf veins. You can use a flat knife to carve out the lines, and then use a carving knife to carve.

10, and then sanding: carved, and then sanded again with 400-grit sandpaper, sandpaper folded up with the corner of the careful sanding. This time is mainly sanding details, further improve the overall shape of the leaf, beautification effect.

11, carving is complete. Well, here, a piece of moonflower leaf wood carving completed by your own carving is fresh out of the oven!