Book 'Das Schnitzerbuch - Meisterliche Übungen'

Topics:

Detailed exercise examples for the perfect elaboration of the face, individual elaborations of expressive eyes, how the hair and beard is carved, photo series with step-by-step elaboration of different characteristic faces, how the ornament is created, the elaboration of figures from the "Full" on the example of eight different models with many photos of the workflow and all technical information. Creation of a mask, functional description with over 60 photos for the dotting machine, working with the model doll and other exercises.

From the content:

Part 1: "Exercise elements, examples and step-by-step exercise templates for elaboration of a face - head: The living eye, the "normal eye", meanings and changes in the environment of the eye, the practical elaboration, techniques for depicting the iris and pupil, the position of both eyes. How the mouth is carved, the mouth in the facial expression, structure and deviations. How the nose is created, the ear is created, the face is created, the hairstyle is created, the full beard is created. . The hair is worked out with gouges. 

Part 2: Exercise pieces with specifications: Where do I start working with a blank. The cut to the clean edge. Exercise program GHF: Child face, bust man approx. 50 years, man with beard, angry young man, friendly gentleman, sad-exhausted, child's hand, open hand, locked hands, children's feet, adult feet.

Part 3:The ornament: cut-out corner decoration, ornament in high relief on background.

Exercise pieces-

Part 4:Transfer and assembly techniques, the dotting machine, workflow with the puncturing machine in detail, assembly instructions for the corpus with outstretched arms, the model articulated manikin.

Part 5: Anatomy.

Part 6: Useful information and suggestions: Realisation of a work of art, the movement of a figure, the repair: various methods - advantages and disadvantages. Features to distinguish hand carving, quality of a blank.

Interesting facts from technology: Summary.