Wood hand lettering tutorial

Wood hand-carved tutorials are: 1, dehumidification. 2, chopping planing. 3, carving. 4, sanding. 5, paint.

One, dehumidification with too much moisture in the wood can not be carved, wet wood will be deformed for a long time, so it must be drying treatment, due to sun exposure will lead to deformation of the wood, cracking, so the usual dehumidification method is to put the wood in the cool, dry place or basement, so that it is naturally dry.

Second, the shape of the selected wood will be necessary to cut planing, on which the pen to depict the pattern or shape of the carving samples. Different positions, different levels of patterns, graphics can be represented by different color lines.

There are also not traced only a little part of the mark or a simple outline of the carving, but most of the carving, especially fine wood carving, tracing the shape of the carving is regarded as a necessary process and must have the功夫.

Three, carving carving method mainly by relief, hollow carving, concave carving, three kinds. Relief carving, also known as Yang carving, that is, the blank part of the carving of non-pattern concave, so that the pattern protrudes, so that it produces a three-dimensional sense of ups and downs, which is a commonly used carving method, hollow carving, known as skeleton carving, carving, that is, non-pattern part of the carving of the empty part of the carving of the empty part of the empty place reveals that can be seen from the opposite side.

Hollow carving is one of the most widely used carving method, more common in architectural wood carving and furniture wood carving, it can make the carving works produce exquisite three-dimensional sense.

Four, sanding carved wood has many angles, knife touch, the appearance of the rougher, and therefore to be sanded, the former sanding I tools commonly used woodworking files, fine gravel, animal skin, tree fibers, hairy leaves, grass ash sand and other hard or toughness made of natural things, now more sandpaper for sanding.

Carving Overview:

A variety of sculpture crafts with a long history and exquisite skills, such as tooth carving, jade carving, wood carving, stone carving, clay carving, face sculpture, bamboo carving, bone carving, carving inkstone, etc., is a precious artistic heritage of Chinese arts and crafts.

Tooth carving, jade carving and other crafts due to the expensive materials, workmanship and very fine, so gradually from the actual product into an appreciation of the product, and is therefore known as the "special crafts", before the liberation of the exploiting class, it is only in the hands of playthings. Wood carving, stone carving, clay carving, face sculpture and other crafts, most of them are circulating in the folk, with a strong local flavor.

The so-called technique is the wood carving creation of the author of the image and space handling techniques. This technique is mainly embodied in the sense of cutting the carving and engraving. Precisely, it is from the outside to the inside, step by step by subtracting the waste material, step by step to dig the form to reveal.

In the subtractive modeling over and over again, we not only experience the works in the "out of the shell" of the surprise, but also feel the special rhythm produced by a variety of knife, some accidental effects, can make the works produce new charm. Therefore, in the art of wood carving, the most meaningful exploration is to use a variety of knife skills, aptly reflect our creative intent.

The knife method is like the brush strokes in calligraphy and painting, which can play a role in strengthening and enriching the artistic effect of the work. The reason for the formation of beautiful strokes is that the technology has reached the performance of the pure. From time to time, people copy a good painting, feel the most difficult than the brush strokes, because the brush strokes is the author's mind and skills combined product, is any imitation is difficult to reflect the things.

So only by mastering the technique and accumulating experience can we achieve the ideal and truly own knife skills. That kind of wood grain and carving marks, smooth and rough, concave and convex, arranged with a round knife, flat knife cutting ...... the artistic language they show, the charm of the sculpture of other materials can not be reached.

In short, the knife method is the sculptor used to reflect their own creative ideas of the technical approach, but also the image to reveal the means of artistic content. Knife operation of the twists and turns, staccato, concave and convex, ups and downs, are to make the work more vivid and natural in order to fully reflect the beauty of the material of wood carving, embodied in the richness of the beauty of the carving.

Unknown wood carving art of the true meaning of the people, the knife is not a knife instead of a pen, but depiction of the work, plus the fear of carving the bad, the result of the knife dead artisanal, carving wood carving interesting to. Therefore, we must carve more practice more refinement, familiar and skillful in order to form their own artistic language and artistic style.

Micro-carving construction area is very small, without a fairly high level of calligraphy and skillful use of micro-carving tools is difficult to complete the skills, and carving, to breathlessness, concentration, meticulous.