Carving a wolf video

[weo]

Hello all. I came across this video that I wanted to share and ask the pros a couple of questions. It's in Russian, but I translated the text below using Google translate and guessed on a couple of words, feel free to correct.

1. So, as usual, we prepare the part from vegetable tanned leather. Cut out taking into account an increase of 5 mm, glue the bakhtarm (backside?) with tape. Wet the skin with water and let it recover.

2. We place and fasten the prepared drawing on the skin.

3. With a thin tip of the stylus we set the pattern on the skin along the main contours.

4. Typically, animal faces, like human faces, are asymmetric. And if the picture is not translated accurately, the axes “float” during operation, if the plans are not followed, etc. the muzzle becomes curved or skewed.

5. Therefore, it is better to check and correct the symmetry of eyes, nose and mouth deliberately.

6. So, right on the skin, with light lines and dots, symmetry is tightened up here along the axis of the eyes, nose, corners of the mouth and ears.

7. Next, we cut the pattern with a rotary knife

8. The wool along the contour is cut with short lines - strokes.

9. Earlier work on wool is continued by the cardina (stylus?).

10. We draw the wool in the direction of growth.

11. Kardina (Stylus?) can also draw eyes.

12. Wool must be varied.

13. By pressing harder, you can make the wool more expressive, textured where necessary.

14. And vice versa, barely noticeable, small.

15. The border of the background and wool can be processed with the stamps "A 98" and "F 902-2"

16. Here the background is made by a stamp from Barry King. It has no number.

17. Molding on important leather with bakhtarma.

18. Stretch the skin gradually

19. Elongated parts after drying keep their shape.

20. On them you can easily work out the texture even higher.

21. In the work process, you can still pull up the volume.

22. Thus, we fill in the whole picture with texture.



Question for the pros: What's the purpose of taping the back side and is that all it is, taping with packing tape?

 

[weo]

And here's the follow up video with dyeing:

1. For painting, penetrating paints are used Feibing’s Professional OIL Dye.

2. In black we paint over what should be black.

3. In this case, the nose and eyes are stained.

4. Everything else is filled with brown in the background.

5. Paint Feibing’s Professional OIL Dye. Color Golden Brown

6. One coat of paint brightens after drying

7. To darken the paint is applied in several layers.

8. So you can do a little dimming to the edges.

9. And darken where necessary.

10. After painting the background and the muzzle, this blank was coated with an “Eco-Flo Satin Shene” finish and, after drying, it was darkened with Antique-gel.

11. Excess Antique-gel is cleaned with a damp soft cloth.

12. After complete drying, acrylic work begins

13. A thin brush draws wool.

14. Strokes should be thin, slightly transparent.

15. Wool is drawn in the direction of growth.

16. It is important to observe the length of the hairs.

17. Wool is drawn in white.

18. You can overlap strokes light gray, light brown to make the wool more natural and interesting in color.

19. Used paints Fiebing’s Acrylic Dye for Leather

20. Acrylic paints are well diluted with water and mixed. They dry very quickly.

21. Layer after layer, the wolf is covered with wool.

22. Gray and brown colors are added with transparent strokes.

23. Draw eyes and mustache. After drying, close the finish.

24. All parts are ready for assembly

 

[Dusty One]

Really Beautiful Work !!!

 

[Horsewright]

Taping helps the leather not to distort when tooling.

 

[954Ink]

The artist makes this look way easier than it is. Truly talented artist. I'd be happy just getting my sewing lines laser straight.

 

[weo]

Taping helps the leather not to distort when tooling.

Thanks, Dave!

 

[weo]

Truly talented artist. I'd be happy just getting my sewing lines laser straight.

Yes, he's amazing. But I doubt that there's a straight line in the whole carving, so there's hope for us.

 

[John Cahoon]

Amazing work. I have a couple of questions: it appears he's modeling the hair just with a stylas (I call it a modeller?) Is that right?

Also does anyone know what tool he's using to paint/dye the white hair in the second video? It appears to be a fillable pen of some kind. I'd like to search the name of that tool please?

Finally in the first video he's clamping the drawing with a paper clip. It's a great idea but f it was me I'd put a thin leather piece underneath so as not to leave an impression on the leather.

 

[weo]

it appears he's modeling the hair just with a stylas (I call it a modeller?) Is that right?

That's what I'm seeing.

Also does anyone know what tool he's using to paint/dye the white hair in the second video

I thought it was a just fine point paint brush.

Finally in the first video he's clamping the drawing with a paper clip. It's a great idea but f it was me I'd put a thin leather piece underneath so as not to leave an impression on the leather.

I agree. Here's a pic of my first attempt at doing Bear. I thought about what you said, but thought I'd see how much of a mark it would leave (thinking it's going to be covered by a background stamp anyway). Notice the marks where the clips were at the top. But they aren't too deep.