How to draw and carve a SHEEP - How to make a simple Christmas Crib (4/6) - super simple figurines!

Hello YouTube, this is the fourth video of my six-part series Carve Your Own Christmas Crepe. In the first three episodes, I showed you how to make a barn and the environment. We carved a cow and a donkey. Today, we only craft the sheep. Now, let's start to draw the sheep. In my opinion, the dimensions between the animals are not that important. It's clear that the nox is bigger than the donkey and the donkey is bigger than the sheep. In my case, I took a radius of three squares for drawing nox. For the donkey, I took two and a half squares. For the sheep, two squares. But this is just to give you a rough idea. As always, I draw first the basic structure of the animals with the circles. If you don't know this trick, please check out this video. The radius trick helps me a lot to keep the proportions. When the basic structure is drawn, I start with the side shape of the head. The side shape of the head reminds me a bit of a rounded arrowhead. Neck and back are again in one line. This makes it easier to carve the animal out of a straight piece of a branch. The ears are placed on the side of the head right behind the eyes. Sheep usually have only a short stub tail. The sheep fur is perhaps the most important recognizing feature. I made it with flying seeds I collected in the nature and glue. For the torso, I need almost the full diameter of the branch. The thick fur makes the sheep often look quite corpulent. As always, the first cut is the front side of the head. This cut is not vertical, this cut is slightly sloping. The next step is to transfer the head shape from the front view on the cutting surface. And after, I carve the cheeks on both sides of the head. If this is done, I start to draw in the side profile of the head. I cut away the remaining wood and try to give the square head a round shape. Now I thin out the neck a little and after I carve the torso a bit slimmer. Now I shorten the branch so that the animal has about the right dimension. In the next step, I round off the rump of the sheep. Now I'm sawing the groove where I will glue in the ears later. As you can see, I make the ears out of leather. For a better standing, I carve a flat area. I collected a bunch of flying seeds in the forest. Now I remove the seeds from the branches and I cover the torso of the sheep with glue. Now comes the funniest part of the project. I dive the sheep into the seeds. So, the last animal from our Christmas crib is done. First we made a cow, a donkey and now we made the sheep. In the next video, I will show you how to craft Joseph with the walking stick. The link to the other videos you find in the description box below. Thanks a lot for watching and see you next time. Ciao!