Hi All, A few more pics of the Wolf! Hi Bob, this shows the cut the same as the liquify filter tool took the curvature of the back down.
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With the wood now removed.
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Now the details of teeth, eyes etc. are completed.
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Almost forgot to take pics before burning????
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Now onto the burning & a quick flap sand!
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Epoxy applied & then for some added colour for details.
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To be continued, hope you enjoy!
Thanks, Robbin

...its been great following your progress Roki, having confidence to show ongoing work is brave of you, if you make a 'cock-up' or hit a problem you seem to have a solution to fix it!

I have my first wolf bust to post in a couple of days, c/saw and a blast'

Just finishing off the varnishin'

You be carfull in that slippy snow ol'fella!!!

dick

Awesome! Thanks for posting another step by step.

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I have to share this bit of my own carving/learning experience with ya! When I first started carving I was like most (I think) whereas I would take a tiny cut stand back & analyses & worry about taking too much or screwing up & I came to the realization of a couple of things. First was with using this type of process I was working totally on the left side, the Doctor Spock side, of my brain & until I just said "the hell with it & let her go" I was stuck there. The second is I created two sayings I use for my own self confidence creation & they are "there is no such thing as perfection & there are no straight lines in nature". This works well & about a year ago I challenged myself to try to do at least some of my carvings without reference material to do what I now call intuition carvings. This triggers the right side of the brain on instantly & allows the analytical side (the left) to shut down & taps directly into the area, in the example I use is, the area where we can still picture people from our childhood. To explain this even better, if you use intuition & practice it any, images, smells, sounds or anything we have ever experienced in our entire life is in this library we call our minds & with practice & self assurance & trusting our own intuitions we can do this! This also opens up many more abilities & the mind to other things never dreamed of by me before. If we allow our intuition to test itself it pays us back 100 fold each time.
Thanks & hope you all understand what I been rambling on about here?
Robbin

Sorry about the Robbin. It's very obvious this morning. I tried it with my eagle pattern. Couldn't get the same results. Need to play with it for a while. Great carving as usual. Thanks for sharing.