Seven Steps to Make Handmade Little Fox Wooden Gifts
Today we will teach you how to make a cute little fox wooden figure, it only takes seven steps to complete this piece and we make it easy to learn it with obvious auxiliary lines. This wooden fox figure comes in a raw wood color with a smiling expression, and it is small enough to be suitable as a desk or car ornament.
Step 1: Draw the lines and set the scale.
Using a square piece of basswood, draw vertical and horizontal lines as auxiliary lines on the block. We will set the scale for three parts of the fox, which is the key to bringing a lifelike feel to all animal shaped wooden gifts.
As shown, the fox's neck is at the center line (1/2) of the entire wood block.
The tips of the fox's ears and jaws are both 1/2 to the left of the center line (equivalent to 1/4 of the entire block).
The root of the fox's tail is 1/2 to the right of the center line (1/4 of the entire block of wood).
Step 2: Cutting Large
According to the line drawing drawn in the previous step, saw off the excess wood along the edge of the line, please note that it needs to be slightly wider than the line by a little distance, to prevent mishandling and causing the whole piece to fail. This step will cut the outline of the wooden fox figurine.
Step 3: Additional line art
The wooden fox figure is symmetrical from left to right, so please draw the supplementary lines on the front side (as shown in the picture) and then the lines in the side view.
- Front view: the fox's face has a more pointed nose and is triangular.
- Side view: the position of the neck at the mark.
- Top view: draw the position of the center line.
- Rear view: draw the outline of the tail, rump, and feet.
Step 4: Sharpen the turning surface.
Using a saw and a carving knife, build on the lines from the previous step to create a large turning surface where the head meets the body (as shown in the figure). The same goes for the mouth and nose of the face, as well as the tail and rump.
Step 5: Add new auxiliary lines to the most prominent parts of the body.
- Connect the most protruding parts of the body with lines, including the head, belly, and tail.
- Connect the tail to the most protruding part of the rump (draw a cross).
- Draw the fox's head more rounded.
- Mark the location of the ears.
- Mark where the face and nose protrude.
Step 6: Round off the most protruding parts of the body.
Starting with the most protruding line of each part, round off around it.- Sharpen the face backward and the nose.
- Round the neck.
- Round the belly.
- Round off the tail.
Step 7: Carve more details.
- Carve the details of each part of the wooden fox figure.
- Carve the face details.
Be sure to round off the fox's buttocks.
Summarize.
The difficulty of this piece is medium for our wooden gifts, with seven steps you get a handmade cute little fox that you can place anywhere, on a bookshelf, on a table or in your car as decoration (Double Sided Tape required). After step 7, you can choose to hand-paint it or leave it in its original wood color. If you want to color it, we recommend using water-based dyes, please refer to our previous article. Thanks for reading and if you love carving wooden gifts, keep following our blog to share more ideas and tutorials.
