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CutieMarkCarver — Vinyl Scratch Woodwork
Published: 2013-12-30 01:06:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 819; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 3
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Aww yeah, good morning Ponyville!I primarily carved this as vindication for another (much lower quality) Vinyl Scratch woodwork that I made in 2012. Plus, it's always a good day to carve Vinyl Scratch; if you're going to carve a pony, you may as well carve Equestria's star DJ.
Considering I don't paint eyes very much, I'm very happy with the end result. Oh, and I didn't nearly forget her horn this time, unlike most of the unicorns I carve. The ridiculously complex hair and clean face structure, not to mention that cute smile, are also some good points. She's not perfect; her head's right side is cut in a bit farther than it should be, she doesn't stand perfectly plumb, and her haunches need an additional 1.5 millimeters of carving around the base of the tail, but those are minor problems. Between her geometry and painting, this is the best I've done yet. She stands just over 3 inches tall and is carved from solid pine.
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I find wood carvings more interesting than clay sculpture for some reason so I gravitated right over to this one when I saw the title. Nice work. If I can make a suggestion, tinted stains might look nicer than paint. Have you tried using woodburning for some of the details? The cutie mark in particular might lend itself to that technique.
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Personally I prefer tinted stains, but between their tendency to bleed when used carelessly/used on small details, and the sheer price of buying at least a dozen different colored cans, I've never gotten around to it. You can dilute acrylic pigments, but even with a nonpolar vehicle like petroleum distillates, sooner or later you learn that pigments just don't function the same as dyes.1 As for woodburning, that's a fantastic idea when applicable and I'll consider it for some future carvings. Thanks!
1Baseball Apple Bloom Woodwork. 4 Dec 2013.
"Painting Apple Bloom's coat was a harsh reminder of the limitations of paint dilution. At a certain saturation, paint doesn't even adhere to denser wood rings, so I had to put on more paint than I'd meant to by the end in compensation"
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Thanks, I'm glad you like it.
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Wow for wood, that's incredible. Wood is so much harder to carve than clay is to sculpt. Kudos to you my friend!
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Thanks for the kudos. Eastern whitewood pine, which is primarily what I carve with, is one of the softest of woods out there. However, the really troubling nuances about wood (compared to clay) are not only the hardness, but also the growth rings and the fact that you can't add more wood if you carve off too much. But hey, everyone finds their medium, and though I could never give up wood, I'd kill to have at many details as you clay sculptors put into every one of your works.
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