Carve a Simple 6" Female Gnome -Knife Only -Full Tutorial

Hey guys back again with another tutorial This week is the female gnome now nice I am no Female carving expert, but I think we squeaked by i've been doing this all week Been doing this all week long And uh, I think we got her nailed pretty good They're not the most feminine looking women But uh, hey give them a dress and a dress and a chest and uh They're unmistakable. So we're gonna attempt to uh Carve ourselves a little the little gnome woman today. So let's get at it And of course as we do Let's mark some centers on here all the way around we'll go right across the top too just to Know where our tip of our hat goes There we go So right off the bat, we're going to mark some measurements on here Right from the bottom here. Let's just mark three quarters of an inch Which is about 22 mil inch and a half 38 mil two and a half About 64 mil And then i'm just on the one side only We're going to mark about three and an eighth Which is about roughly roughly 80 mil. All right That top one there Let's just put a nose on that right away So that we know what uh what we're talking about the first mark here is basically the bottom of the butt and the flat part of the Dress here. All right, so Give her the the butt on the back. All right next one here the inch and a half Bring that around both sides here That's basically bottom of the chest And the elbow. All right the next one up here is the uh The hair hair slash shoulder that so we're only going to do that on three sides. We're going to leave the face Open. All right. So let's mark that all the way around And really from there. We're not going to measure anymore Let's just go ahead Let's mark the butt on here Just take these Corners out i'm making these angle cuts basically center of the line and really either way no big deal All right Take some of that off of there Bring it up and that's basically Her butt marked. All right, we'll take the we'll round it later And then let's go up to the uh, the shoulder slash hair do the exact same thing angle cuts all the way around leaving the uh leaving the front face alone But then we'll just come across All right, just getting everything marked in here, all right nothing is uh Nothing is important just roughing Roughing her in. Okay, that's her shoulders bottom of the hair And we got her butt. All right now We could have went across the back here with that But basically if that's the corner of the elbow i'm going to take the space out from the back side, okay so Go on one side Go on the other side And then right across. All right There we have the back of her arms Later to be the back inside. All right So we can take a little bit Down to the butt here too, but we won't get carried away with that just Keeping that uh Just keeping a bit of an angle back so the elbow looks like it's sticking out Clean it up just a little bit a little bit rough Okay, there we go now before we get too carried away here, let's get rid of some of the bulk on here because It's bobbing the nose here The hat is basically All this has to go. All right, so if we just come up a little bit Roughly, we're gonna fine tune it later, but let's just get rid of these Corners here. They're hard to grab on to We know where our center is. So as long as we're just above that We'll be taking a lot more off later and I know uh this is a Difficult taking big chunks like this. So if you just want to uh Work from one side the other side then take the middle off smaller knife. You don't have to take these big Big bites off like I am Just roughing her in when I was making all these ladies here, I Had bruises on the inside because I was kept holding the hat like that and squeezing it so hard with these angles sticking in my hand so nice to get some of the Some of the angles off. All right but the face here We can take these corners off here, too You can see these two lines here. There's nothing wrong. There's no no harm right now And just kind of rounding that to each line either No we'll do the same thing on the front, but I want to set the chin in on the front Okay So that's our nose Our chin is pretty much across there. Let's uh Like so all right Now let's stop right there for a second I can take all this just like we did in the back from this line to this line we can Shape that right over to that center line It's not a don't do a perfect angle just kind of rounding it I'm going to leave those lines that we can always see them for now Now we'll leave our head alone Come back Clean that up again So what we've got here Let's get one of these girls over here we can see this line Is the uh, we're going to cut that chest back. All right, let's see that All right So depending on how old or young You can you can do a long Slope down or you can be a little bit more perky But let's just cut this chest back a bit Get that chin set in there more All right Okay Let's draw these arms in here before we lose Our lines, but i'm going to stay a little bit ahead of this center line here i'm going to come down to that Cross section there. We've already got the back of our arm set there All right i'm going to come down Just to that corner like so We can even go up a little bit but All right and this is basically going to be the hands in the In the side. All right, just like that. So pretty simple if you got your lines drawn on all around and then the back of the arm i'm just going to give it a A good finger It's width there All right ends up so I'll cut in one side and like I did before i'll do this side and then i'll do the other side. All right So i'm going to dig that in Fairly deep we want to go We can bring that right up to the edge too since this isn't squared off yet Stick that knife in Get her in there Better to do Multiple cuts rather than the chip away back and forth. All right. Now i'm just going to come across with my knife Pop that chip out That's her arm. Okay Now, of course, we're going to come from the center. I'm going to come across like this over like so All right, and we'll work on that later, but i'm going to go ahead Might as well do the back side here too. Just going to go down that back line I know This is my elbow so I can Cut that line in there All right And really i'm just kind of aiming to that line Okay A little bit more in the front here See that I just come from that line To that line. All right I'm going to come up here Take a slice out of there And then we're just going to kind of bring that around and join those two All right There you go And that's a little bit after but All right, i'm gonna do the other side and i'll come back All right. There we are matching arms Cut the shoulders cut in the back so we can just uh Just kind of put in that butt again Across this way Clean that up a little bit Clean that up a little bit there All right A little rough still but Okay, and then we can just we can just round this off Round it off or go with the Flat planes what I do back here Just cut your flat. So keep some flat planes on here, but Yeah, that's pretty much it for the back side here Take these corners off And as you know, we'll come back and we'll fine tune it all but right away. I know that's going to come in Okay now on here. We got our two lines here still We got our rough hands But we want to take these fronts off. So right between these two lines. Let's make our little little dent there a little Big angle cut see that that's the bottom of the chest It's going to come up All right And then we'll just take these corners right off here Now before we go on let's take this chest here Let's just kind of Put some little angles down Take these sharp corners off here All right Take the points off of here We've got some uh Some flatter than others like I added an apron on this one so she's not too chesty Some of them are ridiculous, but uh, hey, I can't make the faces very good but if you give them the uh features They'll be unmistakable as women so That's where we are All right I'm gonna take these straight cuts that we made here. Let's bring them back On a nice angle. All right See that Same on the side nice long angles back looks nice and Nice and clean All right And we're just about ready to Cut that pocket in there. All right So i'm just gonna go Each way a little bit of an angle. All right Wrapped in And now we're gonna go from that angle That line, sorry And just like we did on the back side. We want this to be the highest point I'm just gonna bring that back up into the shoulder. All right So where we stuck the elbow in the back now, we're gonna stick the elbow out on the side. All right same thing from that line just kind of ease that into the Into the pocket Cut that off in there The pocket we'll cut that back just a little bit and give a little little nick out of there Just like so now we can see that the elbow is sticking out on its own same on this side And down into the pocket past a little chip out of there Yeah a little bit cleanup to do but uh Yeah, that's basically it what are we doing this one here so we gave her A little flat plane here flat plane here and then the bottoms whatever you feel comfy with but i'll just take a little little nick off all these Planes and there's no reason you don't have to do a flat plane like me. You can round all these or do what you like but there is a pretty decently roughed in body All right Let's move up up to the head Now i'm really going to uh join up these lines a little bit better all the way down All right and Really sticking that Front point out. So these lines are basically joined All right So you get a little bit of chipping up on the top side. That's okay. We're going to remove a lot more still but just This is why I like those center lines. They really tell you where where to be at all times. So All right. So if this is the bottom of our nose Hello train let's just Cut that bottom the nose in Just so you can see If that's the bottom of our nose, our nose is here. Our eyes are here. So you know even here we got lots to to remove still and we can go ahead and Get rid of some extra wood here Okay bottom of our nose Top of our nose now when we're carving the uh, the women Much smaller noses Much more dainty and smaller noses. All right, so let's uh, let's keep that nose just a little bit smaller like so And cut in our little eye shelf here little angle You know what we're doing we've done this before many times and that's where we're going to leave it right now because we're going to Draw some hair. All right so for hair a couple options longer hair bobbed hair Let me put some hair out front below the hat here Same with her the hair under the hat But for this case we're gonna go with no hair, all right you can as we do this we can uh you can experiment all you like but I'm gonna give her a nice round face Kind of from the edge of the shoulder All right You don't want to go too skinny. Some of these like her face is pretty skinny don't Don't love that as much so Fairly round all right with the hair over the shoulder really. Okay, you see that Pretty rough, but Something's off here Whatever you do make them the same All right, I've been hearing work my way around Same as everything the deeper that you go the first time The less chance you're gonna have to make all those extra extra little cuts That could make your carving look not so good. All right Well, not so bad a little bit long but we can bring that up with the chin A little bit long in the head I'll take that chin Cut that chin back Which way? ideally the same All right now right away let's go from just below that little eye shelf there And let's narrow the top Get that out of there Narrow that temple area That looks better and just to get that hair set we can take that chin and we can just kind of Undercut it there and then back with the hair And we'll pop that little and that is where my camera died. So hiding her face I'll just go over quickly what we missed Finish that three-corner cut there Do the same cut on this side three-corner cut and then I just took the top of the forehead here and just put that line around there and just Angle that hat back on an angle like so And then just took the hair up to the bottom of the hat All right That's all we missed. I don't think it's really worth redoing the video for Drawing a line around a hat and finishing that three-corner cut so anyway Sucks it happened, but it did and back to the video And we are back camera decided to overheat on me. So I had to pause but Just like that there So Let's look at our girl here All right So right away I can tell you that one of the keys to making a nice girl is softer lines. So Her chin does not have to be so harsh we can Soften all these hard lines around here All right Just give her a nice round Round face no real hard lines Okay, let's give her a Smaller nose. We'll fine. We'll fine tune her after but This is smaller little nose All right, pull those corners off Pull the corner off. All right, we're gonna go from the center up on each side Bring it back Bring the sides in Taking the corners off the sides there a respectable nose picking this up Then we're gonna take this hard edge off of that In here, too. So I come across right across the top of the nose Just taking that hard edge off. All right Good So there she is Let's uh Draw some eyes and a mouth on her Again, we'll stick with the the cartoon eyes There's a little bit of room here. I could have had some hair or something. So the hat could be down a little bit She'll be fine. All right All right, we're gonna keep our mouth if this was divided this into three our mouth is in the top third I'm just gonna give her a big big smile Let's start with the mouth You can come in a bit of an angle All right same thing a bit of an angle A little bit of space we're taking out just like so. All right You can do a little bit more Just to give her a little bit more of a mouth All right I'm gonna put a straight cut on the end here straight in I'm just gonna take these little triangles out hopefully each way That's the end of the The end of the mouth just like that. It's a little triangle All right Same on this side Little chips. All right now that looks kind of yucky. So i'm gonna give her a little bit of a lip here Very lightly i'm gonna take that right up into that corner All right Same here very shallow And then take that extra off of there there nice Sticking her knife in a bit of an angle Come around down knife in and over One little slice across the bottom So we can get that little chip out there Same on this side slice along the bottom a little chip All right. I'll just undercut that If you want to give her Eyelids, you can give her eyelids Some pencil lines off of here All right, let's bring that Job one a little bit higher up there A little wider on this side and get some meat off this cheek I'm always trying to keep it Keep her symmetrical All right Something's wonky How are we getting there? All right, let's give her a little bit of a Small little indent on the bottom of the chin good character Too much cheek on this side We got something off here We'll get her We'll get her that's what it is. It's a front flat Same in the bottom That's better hair Let's just swoop this all the way around Right up under that hat give her a little little flare out we're not going to do it on this one, but you can give her take your v tool and Draw in some hair if you want Okay, now that we know Where our hair is we can see our our hat is way too way too thick But now we know where our center line is too so we can thin that hat down And i'm gonna make some Nice big flat planes here Just gonna keep working around Till we make a nice Point on the top. All right And again, you don't have to do this see This will work any way you want to do if you want to round everything off if you want to give little folds and bends in the hat Just the uh General idea here for this gnome girl You can just see anywhere that's thicker just trim her down I think we just about got it there we go now, that's just Silly to have a point. So I always just kind of take Take that off because that's the first thing as soon as you drop is going to uh, It's gonna dent anyway or break. So Okay, you can go around the hat one more time Just to make it nice and sharp Maybe a little bit of a back back angle on it We're getting there. We just got it. It's actually a pretty quick project if you're not trying to videotape yourself or Follow along once you got it like I said, it's taken me like six of these to uh, to get this far, but uh, yeah now it's pretty straightforward If that cheek was where it belonged every time I look at her I think you're a lopsided but All right Fuzz in there get out Okay A little extra little bob on the bottom pencil lines Get that I like to bring that just to let these kind of just taper out Take that Sharp line. I can take that Plane right off the whole back of the arm right up into the hair Same on this side take that plane off All right What did I do? Where is she this one here? I gave her a little uh little collar No big deal either I'm gonna give them a I don't know what that is kind of a nun nun look or Pilgrim, I guess the pilgrim look One pilgrim look there I'm gonna take those back angle so So there Get rid of your fuzzies All right. Now we'll just go around the whole thing Some pencil lines there. See that see that that has never been touched. That is the block of wood right here as well And almost the nose, right? So Pretty much flat like that We'll just go around Anything that we don't like we'll clean up We can give them a little give her a little crease in the arm Each way we can angle the bottom of the arm right down into the pocket All right. Okay. What do we see? What do we see? I think that's uh That's our rough woman No, there's something to look at well, that didn't help Here's the eyeballs All right now you got something to look at there she is a little bit rushed but uh That's our general idea so like I was saying face keep it round a bit of a chin and uh yeah, give her a dress and a chest and uh They'll be unmistakable a woman, you know the uh Gnome book that I always refer to They say that the woman at 350 years old grows a very light beard. So Don't be afraid of your gnomes a little bit which I think we'll call her there. There you go. There's our little gnome Go ahead and uh paint them up any way you like I'm gonna do it the same way I do in my other painting videos And uh, yeah, but don't be afraid to uh, mix it up this is just your basic blueprint for the uh, The frame of the woman and uh, you can change their hair and change their round face skinny face Bigger boobs smaller, but you know up and down big butt little butt aprons dresses Mix and match you can do whatever you like. So have fun with it and uh be safe and uh, yeah That's a fun little curve But before I go I cannot forget to thank the people that have bought me a coffee and bought purchased merch this week I got new merch that uh I got in the mail this week and I thought I might as well show you I love that water bottle and a coffee cup and a sticker So thanks to those who bought me a coffee and uh have supported the channel by buying merch always appreciated and uh, yeah We'll be back soon with uh another video. So thanks for watching everybody and uh, catch you next time. See ya