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Want to learn how to carve a face in wood, but find the process intimidating? Alec LaCasse's Carving Faces in Wood is a comprehensive guide for everything you need to start. Featuring high-quality illustrations that break down each step to wood carving faces, Carving Faces in Wood synthesizes a lifelong carver's tips to shorten your learning curve. To many, producing carved wood faces is daunting. No longer. With Carving Faces in Wood, you'll have everything you need to carve out elegant, beautiful, natural-looking faces--even if you're just starting out!
About the author
Alex LaCosse was hooked on wood carving since his first whittled boot at age 12. Since then, it has been his passion: outside of wood carving (or teaching wood carving), he hasn't done anything else for a living. But he also knows how hard it is to be a beginner. That's why he's dedicated himself to helping others avoid the novice mistakes he remembers. In Carving Faces in Wood, Alex guides readers through the most important tips to set novices up for long-term success. Share his lifelong research, chisel away at the learning curve, and polish off your first carved wooden face sooner than you could ever imagine!
Summary
This book will help carvers master the fundamentals of faces in either realistic or stylized pieces. Carver and author, Alec LaCasse, teaches beginners how to simplify the complex forms of the human countenance, using the rules of proportion to guide readers through every aspect of the face.
