The Shadows

The people love a little creature.

Look its frog

A lil carved wooden seal type creature

A front view of a lil carved wooden seal type creature

Another angle on that lil seal type creature

A new creature appears

Close up on a gang of lil wooden guys in some shady grass with fallen leaves

A carved burnt wooden lil guy on a grey background

Made a little one for the gang.

Its fun to do these cause I don't have to pay as much attention to final details.

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A big carved wooden anteater next to a smaller one, you can see that the big one is about twice the size of the little one

A carved wooden anteater, the colors are a bit blotchy and there is a clear joint line.

Sometimes stuff doesn't work! I tried to make a bigger anteater and unfortunately the 2 separate boards separated when I tried to do the burnt finishing process. But hey you gotta try things

A small knife with a purple handle next to a big knife with a pine handle

Made a new small details knife/chisel thing, the knife on the right is my usual go to

A carved wooden anteater on a workbench next to some chisels and files. The anteater is slender and in a low to the ground pose like a dog doing a play bow. the wood is burned black and slightly lustrous from the oil finish.

Here is anteater

Wow, its a complete anteater:

a small carved wooden figurine

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The same anteater figure but from a different angle showing the length of the snout.

Now with angles

A front facing shot of a carved wooden figure that looks kinda like an anteater or maybe a borzoi dog. It is on a wooden workbench in a garage.

Carving experiments: anteater

A carved black wooden figurine on a piece of oil soaked cardboard

A new guy getting some finishing