Carving Guide for Fun Wooden Gifts: Wall-Nut Figure
Hello everyone, today we bring you very interesting wooden gifts, if you have played Plants vs Zombies, you will recognize them. That's right, we have made a wooden figurine of Wall-Nut from PvZ, which is very close to the image from the game, we have carved its big bulging eyes and painted it in brown color. If you're a fan of PvZ, you won't want to miss this one, so why not try your hand at making one? Follow our step-by-step tutorials and you too can learn to make them!
Step 1: Sketch the Wall-Nut Wooden Figurine.
We chose rectangular basswood for our wooden gifts. Draw a sketch of Wall-Nut on the front of the wooden block, please refer to our pictures or search for a picture from the web yourself.
Step 2: Narrow the rectangular wooden block.
Along the contour lines on both sides of the Wall-Nut, trim off the excess wood and narrow the entire rectangle. This is because we usually have a hard time finding wood that is just the right size, and the amount of wood to chip off depends on the sketch you make; we can start by simply chipping off the sides.
Step 3: Saw off excess wood around the head of the Wall-Nut.
Since there is a lot of leftover space around the head in the sketch, it would be time-consuming and tedious to use a carving knife to chip away at the wood, so we'll use a saw.
Step 4: Round off the edges of each side of the wood block.
The wooden figurine we're going to make is an oval sphere, so we're going to round off the rectangle a little bit. Please sharpen each side in turn, placing the wooden block vertically on a flat surface and working from top to bottom.
Step 5: Carefully chip the contour lines of the wooden figurine.
For the areas close to the contour lines, please chip slowly, don't chip too much at once and always keep the contour lines you drew visible.
Step 6: Use the carving knife to carve the details.
Once the overall shape is out, use the carving knife to continue sanding the piece so that the wooden figurine is well proportioned. This step involves chipping away all the lines of the previously drawn sketch and finishing the details. For example, the front of the Wall-Nut should have layers, not just a sphere. We need to carve out a groove to emphasize the folds and roughness on Wall-Nut's body. In other words, we should create some bumps and depressions which are positioned at the bottom, so please be creative and don't have to follow the picture exactly.
Step 7: Mix the dyes and color with a brush.
Use a dark yellow (or light brown) to color the entire piece, but please leave the eyes in place as we will be using pure white to paint its two large eyes. At the end, using a fine bristle paintbrush, outline its eyes, eyebrows, and mouth lines in black.
Summarize.
This is one of the easier wooden gifts to make, it has an overall spherical shape and doesn't require too much detail to carve, so beginners in wood carving can also carve it as an exercise. You don't have to copy every detail in the picture, just make sure the overall shape of the piece is well proportioned and it will be a successful piece. If you really like this piece but don't want to take the time to make it yourself, that's fine, we sell it in our store, and you can buy the Wall-Nut Plants Vs Zombie Wooden Figure directly here.
