Make a simple Christmas Crib (5/6) - How to draw & whittle JOSEPH - super simple! Swiss Army Kni

Hello YouTube, welcome to another project video. Today I want to show you how to craft Joseph. This is the fifth video of my six-part series on how to craft such a simple but wonderful Christmas tree. Let's start with drawing. In my opinion, it's a basic requirement that you are able to draw a character if you want to whittle it. If you can't draw the character, you will be not successful if you try to carve it. Like on the animals in the videos before, you can use the three-circle trick also for humans. This trick helps me to keep the proportions. If you don't know this trick, please check out the first video of this series. The link for this video you find here. The first two circles gives the space for legs and torso. The third circle is more or less for head and neck. A typical sign for Joseph is for example his coat. And I like to give him a hat too. Another recognizing feature can be the sheep herd stick that Joseph is holding in his hand. To simplify the nativity scene figurine of Joseph as much as possible, I carved the hat separately. Otherwise, it's difficult to carve the shape of the hat under the brim of the hat. To craft the hat from wood is for sure challenging, especially the thin brim of the hat. If you have a simple idea on how to craft the hat for Joseph, so give it a try. If the hat is done, we start to whittle the shape of the hat. Therefore I take the wood saw and I make a cut around the whole branch at the spot where throat to neck comes to stay. Carefully I split off the material that is too much. Now I'm trying to give the hat a round shape. The next step is to cut the branch to the right length. So that the proportions are roughly right, you can use the trick with the three circles. On both sides of the torso I split away a piece of the bark. This makes that it looks like Joseph is wearing a coat. After I rounded off the shoulders a bit, I saw a groove in the side flank of Joseph. In this groove I will glue the sheep herd stick later. For gluing the hat on Joseph's head, I make a hole in the center of both pieces. There I can put in a connecting pin. Like this I get a stronger glue connection. So my friends, Joseph is done. Again super simple, without any limbs, no arms, no legs, no hands, nothing. But every child will recognize this is Joseph. And that's the aim. So in the next video we want to carve Mary and Jesus. The links for the other figurines you can find in the description box below. That's it for today. Thanks a lot for watching. See you next time. Ciao.