How to Fine Carve a Wood Sculpture

Video Transcript

"On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Husain Abdul Alim. I am here to tell you about carving figurines. You know basically at this point is always clean up, clean up, clean up, even if I go to a piece like this, it is still getting the edges out, pumping in here cleaning out the mouth just like I was doing with those pieces. And especially it is all cleaning up on this profile piece. Edging, edge is out. Basically it is just more sanding and more cleaning, this is where this is at, you know and I grasp. I am going to finish it off here, I going to get into that. I don't know if my edge is typically around the eyes. Yeah you got to know sometimes when you have done enough to a piece, just stop, clean it up, enough is done. Keep it simple stupid, too complex just let the wood kind of express itself. Okay with that little hole in it you can see where I am at and I can finish it off. Mostly it is sanding. A little triangular grasp is excellent for up in here. See how nice that looks when you round that out? We already got one eye so, let's do the best we can with just one eye on this side. I am going to leave the hair pretty much rough like this, all grainy like that, then stop. And on the face I want to smooth it out with the sanding. This bad boy can be stained by the end of the day. Another hour, forty-five minutes of sanding on this and it is done. This piece is done. Quality, gallery piece."