Chapter 30 The Art of Wood Carving
"After more than a hundred years of carving, I found that carving can actually exercise many abilities. The most important thing for an assassin is to control yourself. Carving can first exercise your ability to control your strength.
A piece of engraving material cannot be exactly the same, and there are more or less subtle differences. This is to exercise your ability to control strength. There are many types of engraving techniques for the same material, and for different materials, there are many ways to engrave. The flexibility of the hand is very important, which is to exercise your knife skills and the flexibility of the hand.
Large-scale carvings are not achieved overnight. You need to carve them repeatedly over the years, which will train your patience and temper your mind. Being able to wait for opportunities is also one of our excellent qualities.”
In front of Mr. Mu, an ordinary piece of wood and a row of carved knives were placed. Mu Laoran picked up one of the carved knives.
"My teacher once said, 'There is nothing good for people', and 'Three-point skill and seven-point product', which means that if you want a good work, you must have a good carving knife. You just start to get involved in carving, just use the set of carving knives I gave you. When you have your own style and the knife skills you are good at, you can create a set of carving knives that belong to you according to your own style. Only what suits you is the best."
Old man wood picked up the wood posing in front of him.
"I will teach you the simplest way, and it is also my best wood carving. Let me give you a demonstration first. The carving method is basically the same. Beginners only need to be familiar with the two different uses of the two types of carving knives, flat knives, and round knives, and they will soon be able to master the skills of the knife.
The importance of the knife-holding posture, whether it is correct or not, not only affects the smooth progress of the engraving operation, but may also scratch your hand.
Flat knife block method: The main method is to use a flat knife to cut out the outline and structural parts of the work with a large surface of the flat knife, so that it can produce a rough and powerful feeling of cutting the knife. Therefore, the tool must be stable, accurate and ruthless, and it must be strong, and the knife matches the same, and the air is not greasy. Each knife should explain the problem and achieve the final effect of the work.
The process of using the flat knife block method is actually to summarize the shape process of various complex shapes using simple and abstract geometric shapes. This process can simplify each shape, each bone path, and muscle into squares, rectangles, trapezoids, and diamonds of large and small sizes. Therefore, it requires you to have solid basic shape skills and the ability to cover natural shapes, and also test your ability to control strength.
The flat knife block method can combine some round knifes to penetrate the entire process of carving to form the final effect. It can also be used only to make large-shaped treatments in the primary stage of carving, and then use other knife methods to make richer and more delicate portrayals from square to round.
The second type is the round knife carving method and arrangement method: Since the round knife method is not sure, the carved shape is relatively vague and the concave and convex feeling is relatively clear, it is very suitable to explore the effect of expressing the texture and texture of various objects. The round knife carving method uses irregular concave and convexity of large and small to form a volume, and creates a natural, thick and simple beauty on the surface.
If combined with a flat knife, on the one hand, it is smooth and delicate, like a human skin; on the other hand, it is rough and astringent, like a human hair, dress, etc., then the two will form a strong texture contrast, making the work rich and interesting expressive. The arrangement of round knife and carving method has the same meaning, but you must arrange the knife consciously to give it a certain decorative and texture effect." Mr. Mu began to wave the carving knife in his hand while explaining.
"At the beginning of cutting a large amount of wood, the knife holder is in a fist-shaped shape. When the carving knife is pushed outward or digging deep, the fist can be made to the downward; when the carving knife is pushed inward, the fist can be made to the upward; when the wood grain thread is cut, the fist can be made to the inner or outward, and these three methods must be flexibly mastered.
When carving is finalized, carving knives are mainly used to engage in carving, which is mainly two methods. One is to hold the knife with both hands, just like this, hold the upper end of the knife handle with the right hand, and slowly push it towards the right hand. The other is to hold the knife with the right hand in a pen shape, but the ring finger and little finger must be pressed tightly on the carving object and move the knife forward to control the sharp knife.
Pay attention to the position of the left hand. When making small carvings, the left hand holding the work should be placed behind the right hand, and one end of the work can be leaned against a fixed table.
There are also some wood that are hard, and you can use your shoulder blade to press the handle and move the knife forward.
For fine and soft wood, you can use the right palm to gently tap the tool to cut off a small amount of wood. There are also some details that need to be paid attention to. If the tool is carved too deep, do not shake the handle and pull it out quickly, otherwise it will cause the blade to crack or peel off. Another carving knife should be used to slightly cut off the wood around the tool until it can be shaken."
The wood in the old man Mu's hand gradually turned into the appearance of cold wind. The cold wind in the statue was strong, with his right leg upright and his left leg slightly bent. The carvings of the long gown were thick and powerful, natural and vivid. His face was even and upright, his eyebrows were clear, his nose was straight, and he was growing up, and he looked ahead with a surprised look, exactly the same as the cold wind in reality.
"Maybe you will surpass me in the future, come on. What I asked to find a natural system was because it was easy to learn to get started with carving, and it was easier to get familiar with the structure. When you carve, you wanted to sense the texture and structure of the materials on your hands, so that you can be more handy when carving.
The things in this book are the goals I set for you, from simple to traditional. When you all reach the carving standards, you should have formed your own unique style and knife skills. Then I will teach you other carving techniques, but by then you may no longer need me to teach you because you already have your own way to go. Hahaha."
Mr. Mu found another book, and it was much thicker. It had more than 200 pages. Each of the first few pages had detailed carving methods, precautions, work requirements and other annotations. As you flipped backward, the fewer things you wrote, and the last page was directly a short section of the work requirements.
"You practice first according to the one on the first page. If you don't understand, ask me. When the sun starts to set west, go down to read the book. Don't forget to do the other two training sessions when reading.
If you want tonight, go to the underground world to chat with Lord Protus. After so many years, he is miserable enough in the lower world alone. Now it’s hard to have someone like you who have some connections to accompany him. If Lord Protus is willing, you might also learn dragon language magic.
There are many secrets on you. It is not easy to awaken bloodlines. If you want to awaken your bloodline, you have to rely on Lord Protus." Han Feng nodded. Even if Grandpa Mu didn't give it in particular, Han Feng planned to go. Han Feng was very confused about the "seal" and "ultimate transformation technique" that Protus talked about that day. Old Man Mu was a little sad when he thought of Protus, sighed, and walked away on his own.
Han Feng spread the book with the book "The Art of Wood Carving" aside, took out the set of carved knives that Old Man Mu gave him from the earrings, took out the flat and round knives, picked up the wood beside him, closed his eyes, and felt the texture and structure in it carefully.
After a long time, he opened his eyes and began to carve the great cause. After a while, Han Feng looked awkwardly at the piece of wood that had been cut off by himself. "Oh... it's not easy." He sighed, continued to pick up another piece of wood, and began to repeat the movements.
The sun sets west, and the cold wind is sitting in the underground library, turning the dagger and watching "Commentary on Historical Figures", while exerting magic.
Two little guys, one lying on the leaves of the light vine, was sleeping, while the other was reading with Hanfeng on the shoulders of Hanfeng. Needless to say, the one who slept must be Chuisi, and the one who reads on Hanfeng's shoulders was Aina.
As a mountain-piercing rat who loves reading, Aina is still very serious and focused. From time to time, she will ask Hanfeng some questions that make Hanfeng difficult to answer, all of which involve the essence of human nature and the bottom line of morality.
Han Feng does not deal with people too much, and he is very vague about these things. Although he has been a beggar before, he has a deep understanding of the essence of human nature, and the experience of breaking his fingers a while ago made Han Feng feel even cooler.
But Han Feng refused to admit it deep down. In addition, Han Feng always believed that not everyone was like that, such as Ryan and Grandpa Mu.
As night fell, the cold wind crawled out of the underground library with unsatisfactory feelings. Old Man Mu was watching the poems of the elves under the illumination of the magic lamp.
Han Feng turned the key of the wood carving, and indeed the same stone door was opened at the same location. Han Feng looked at the design speechlessly. Old Man Mu smiled awkwardly, "Haha, this is the design I just moved here when I was young. The house is not big, so I asked my friend to help me use space superimposed and set the entrance in the same seat." Then he began to read the book in his hand.
"Go, accompany Lord Protus and learn something by the way. What Lord Protus teaches you will benefit you for a lifetime, after all, he has lived for nearly ten thousand years."
Han Feng went down the passage. There were indeed no traps or mechanisms along the way. Soon Han Feng entered the underground world from an exit at the bottom of the underground world. The underground world was just like when Han Feng first came. The magic circle was slowly moving, and the originally messy stones on the ground had been cleaned up, and the blood in the magic circle blood river seemed to be more.
The only obvious difference is that the huge iceberg in the middle of the magic circle disappeared, replaced by Protus's strong body, curled up, looking a little helpless, but his eyes were still so arrogant and unyielding. Protus discovered the cold wind as soon as the cold wind entered the cave.
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