How do I into wood carving?

>>1064827
Tutorials on Youtube ?

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>>1064830
What I've learned from drawing is that some tutorials can be much more harmful than beneficial and not only neglect to teach you a foundation, but teach you how to build that foundation wrong.

>>1064831
Do you have good drawing tutorials to share ?

>>1064836
http://www.floobynooby.com/pdfs/gesturedrawingforanimation.pdf

Sure, start here. It says it's for animation but gesture is the lifeblood of all art.

Then move to perspective, form(light/dark), anatomy, and proportions. These are all really important and should be learned early on after gesture.

get a stick
get a knife
do it

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>>1064848
Pretty sure there are better ways to go about it that might also be easier on my knife.

>>1064842
Thank you very much anon, hope you'll find the secret of wood carving

>>1064850
I was bored so I carved a face on a stick with a utility knife

it wasn't a very good face, but that's a good as any way to start

>>1064827
a lot of the super-detailed carvings are done with boxwood (OP picture looks like boxwood...)

you can carve with any wood around, but the wood that is considered "good" is a lot easier to work with than wood that is considered poor

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>>1064827
buy a CNC

>>1065860
>buy a CNC
That's like buying 18 wheeler truck for moving two chairs.

>>1064827
books, youtube, forums, asking a local wood carver?
get sum beginers tools lock up sum easy project and star carving

Recently tried to get into wood carving too. Live in a shitty small town, so buying proper carving wood isn't an option, all I have is my firewood, which is all acacia. Which, as it turns out, is hard as fuck, water-proof and impervious to any tools known to man. How the hell do I soften this shit up a bit? I tried soaking it in water, but it's so water-resistant that an hour of soaking only gets me about half a millimeter of soft wood. Tried the alcohol and water thing people mention and it just drips down without soaking in at all.

How the hell do I work with this shit? Cause I don't really have any other options.

What type of carving? Figures? Chip? Relief? Folk art whittling?

Basswood, butternut, walnut are decent carving woods to start with.

I started with basic relief carving, copy a basic picture, glue it to the board and cut away leaving the lines then round the sharp lines sand smooth

I have several flexcut tools, crazy sharp is the key.

Get some carving books on subject matter that you like and take it from there

>>1067105
Steam it? Will penetrate better than just water, should expand it a bit too