Crazy Twilight Sparkle Woodwork By xofox Watch

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"You just have to keep it together. KEEP! IT! TOGETHER!"



In a journal post late last night I said that the closest thing to a nonprofit-for-kids pony in the show that I could think of off hand was Ms. Cheerilee. Upon further reflection I decided that, no, there was a better representation of us, and it's Twilight after a night without sleep, with several nervous tics, and a frenetic laugh, talking to herself and screaming something about learning friendship lessons. In fact, that more or less mirrors my Sunday through Tuesday to within a hair. So instead of doing a Cheerilee piece, have a silhouette of crazy-eyes Twi.



This piece is done in purpleheart, and the stand is done in palm. It measures about four inches in height.



I'm having fun with these silhouette pieces, and they are a lot easier to produce than full figures, but I can't seem to get around a few limiting factors with them. Due to the sharp turns and curves of the cutout lines I really feel the need to use a spiral blade on my scrollsaw when doing them, but that really does not allow for any kind of subtlety in the lines. They are thick and clunky, and there is no real way to get a fine point in the cut, since the cutting edge is cylindrical rather than flat. I also run into trouble keeping a consistent shading style with the cutout. In this piece, for instance, the eye cutouts are representative of a white area, while in the mouth cutout, the teeth are left in wood and the cutout is for a darker area. I would rather have used a cutout area for the teeth. Unfortunately, they open onto the exterior of the piece, so I didn't see an elegant way of doing that, although I think some outlining might have worked if I had tried it. Either way, the point is that I don't really have a system down yet, and I need to work on that. Top that with the fact that a lot of the defining lines across these pieces would be either dark or light in a lineart piece, and it just has some problems. Maybe I should just try to do an actual bust instead of a silhouette, but by now I think we all know how I feel about carving faces. blank faces are practically a part of my style at this point. Eh.

I did a different version of the stand all jagged and crazy lookin' but it ended up looking like I was using some old scrap wood, so I just rolled with a rough cut rectangle instead. Anyhow, have a lovely weekend!

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Published : Jan 27, 2018