Mild Makeover for a Walking Stick Spirit

 

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 Before and After

As I get better at carving spirits, I will give a spirit a "make over."  Here is an example on the stick named, "Why the long face?"

Before

A few things needed to be fixed. 

• Eyes were OK for a spirit but didn't have eyelids and were too big for sockets.
• Eyebrows were not clean and too small.
• Nose was too flat against a too flat face.

After

Here is what I did.

• Carved eyes into sockets.
• Added eyelids
• Carved eyebrows and then had to reshape sockets
• Fixed foread because fixing the eyebrows gave odd look to the overall look.

The side portrait shows how the nose and cheek bone structure have improved.

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Note that Phaal Nap (Fail Nap) is a pseudonym, nom de plume, and anagram for Hal Papan. I usually write when I can't sleep. Ergo, Fail Nap. Of course, Hal Papan is my nom de couteau (knife name instead of pen name) and anagram for my real name, Alan Happ. I carve under the name Hal Papan.

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