Coworker drew and I stayed mostly with what she wanted

I tried my hand at following a loose tutorial from the youtube channel linker. It was his comfort bird one.

Although mine looks a bit more like a submarine than a bird. I might nip off the tip and give it to my son calling it a submarine

The second thing I've made, this is so much fun!

Hi everyone, I've wanted to start carving for a while now and I've been thinking about starting with this Beavercraft set. Is it good for beginners? I don't have much money for anything more expensive right now and I'm wondering if it's better to have nothing than this.

It's quite nice to carve small things. Gotta add titles to the books! Jenga blocks are decent alternatives to buying basswood blocks and I have quite a few ideas for the rest of the blocks!

Damn this is looking just as good as I dreamt. Wings are gonna take effort but so far so good

A big fan of the vintage look, the wood is beautiful, won't be painted.

Even though this particular design is all over the place, it is something I really enjoy making.

I’m a lady whittler with small tired mitts, lemme tell you. Used a Lee Ferguson knife, great small handle knife. Stropped often. Had trouble getting the cap to round more, it was the end piece of some Treeline USA basswood, but I’m happy with it! Did some light acrylic paint washing on it, along with oil and wax. It joined the ranks of 3 other mushrooms on my mantle.

From an awesome class with Banks

Ive jumped into whittling as a hobby recently and im finally taking advantage of this set my wife got me last Christmas

My granddad used to whittle tops from wooden thread spools, but I never watched him doing it. I've came into possession of a bunch of spools and wasn't too make some for my kids. Does anyone do these? I've searched YouTube and Pinterest and can't find anything. A guide video, and written guide anything like that would help.

Had a lot of fun painting this, especially the rocks!

Just trying to decide on which varnish to use, if any.

Ongoing phoenix 'update'. Had a really slow day at work so I was getting into the detail on this wing and loving how it's turning out.

Then I remembered I don't just have one more wing to carve...but the backs of them too...

I love whittling, but sometimes I wish I could click my fingers and have the finished product 😅

A tasty carrot.

From a 1x1 piece of basswood. Used mostly a knife (flexcut pro 41mm). Nr 9 micro gouge for the moustache, nr 11 for the leaves and a V tool for the "carrot indentations". Let me know if there is a word for that lol...

The green stuff keeps coming off the strop!

At first I wanted to make a gnome but now it looks more like a warrior wearing a helmet? Please, tell me that this piece of wood is salvageable

Tried clear coating with diluted modpodge and i quite like the glossiness since the whole thing is painted

I like how the waves came out

Got an actual whittling kit and this was the first thing that came to mind

So i'm building a "Woodcarvers Face Library" playlist on my YouTube channel. These are a few of the faces uploaded so far, each video is completely knife only, free, and geared to be beginner friendly.

Trying to do one a day till I get 7 or 8 done. To give folks a variety they can use to mix and match and do projects of their own with.

I want to make woodcarving more accessible to get deeper into.. like simple little projects are one thing, but faces Stonewall people, shut them down because they get intimidated. My goal is to open that up as much as I possibly can, get folks experimenting, mix and matching and trying new things

Let me know your thoughts?