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Hey everyone, it’s Wooden Smile back again! In this post, we’re continuing our focus on turning all sorts of little characters into wooden gifts. In our last blog, we finished drawing the outline for our wooden figure and figured out which parts we needed to cut away. When we made the mushroom-shaped figure, we...

Hey everyone! So far, we’ve walked through how to make human-shaped wooden gifts from scratch—teaching beginners how to handle body proportions, head and joint sketching, and more. This will be the final post in our drawing tutorial series, so let’s finish up the little wooden figure we’ve been working on! At this point, you...

In this post, we’re continuing our guide on how to draw when making human-shaped wooden gifts. Last time, we already sketched out the figure’s outer outline, but the front view isn’t fully complete yet, and we still need to add details like folds in the clothes and pants. So today, let’s learn how to...

In the last post, we went over how to sketch the head of a human-shaped wooden gift on a wood block. This time, we’ll walk you through how to lay out the rest of the body and transfer the proportions from a photo onto the block. Sounds tricky? Not at all—just follow our steps!...

Want to turn someone from a photo into a one-of-a-kind human-shaped wooden gift? In our previous blog posts, we’ve already introduced some basics on body proportions. So how do we take those proportions and transfer the figure from the photo onto a block of wood? In this post, we’ll show you how to sketch...

Through the previous series of tutorials on carving human-shaped wooden gifts, you probably already have a decent understanding of human body proportions. In this blog, we hope to help you better understand the proportions of the head on a wood figurine. The head is one of the harder parts to carve on a human...

In the last post, we talked about how keeping a balanced proportion between the upper and lower body is important when making human-shaped wooden gifts. But there’s another key element that adds beauty to your carved figures: making sure the joints are positioned in a way that fits human anatomy. In this blog, we’re...