Post #641993 by Roru on Wed, Jun 27, 2012 5:45 PM

I am 19 years old, and I work as an apprentice cabinet maker. I have no intentions of attending a university because I really want to try to create my own business and live in Hawaii or Costa Rica. I went to Hawaii last year by myself and I really liked it. I would like to live there for sure!

I get my rocks from a local beach. I live in Michigan, there are many rocky beaches here. Between working as a cabinet maker and my computer work, I do not have much time to carve lately. maybe one carving a day, I will post them as I make them :)

Before I worked so much, I had a preference for carving bone. I had large quantities of cow bone available to me. Here's what remains of those carving, these were carved prior to the onset of my tiki madness...

these guys are in an untangleable snarl..

In order left/right earliest/most recent:

notice that i started by carving the same way you would draw the tikis. I sort of scratched their features in.

I was starting to get the hang of using the shapes of my burs to their advantages, and avoiding situations where the shape was awkward or crude.

the one on the right is the one I carved yesterday. I am getting a lot better at carving within the limitation of my burs, and also using a wide variety of shapes to get what i want.

this is my work area:

I use a foredom carver and I have about 3 million burs :D