school logo question

[Rick P]

I'd like to carve the attached school logo...I have this jpg file, but the wolves do not make into the pattern...?? Can anyone help or advise??

[gregsolano]

Here is my attempt at it. ( the png file turned into a jpg when I uploaded it so it really is not representative of the file I used.)


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[fwharris]

Here is my attempt as well..

[Rick P]

Thanks Greg...the file I attached was a jpeg

[Rick P]

Thank you FW !

[fwharris]

Thank you FW !

Your welcome Rick! Hope it carves ok!

[eelamb]

Rick here is another of your logo.

[Alan Malmstrom]

Here is another option for you. I did this in photoshop making each object different heights in a hieghtmap and blurring etc.

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http://forum.carvewright.com/images/misc/pencil.png

[eelamb]

Alan nice work on the pattern, had not thought of raising the outline (inside the circle) and the inside to make it more of a 3d. I did make the entire inside a true 3d with fur and such, but was not satisfied with the outcome so I tossed it out.

[Alan Malmstrom]

Ya, putting fir on and such would be quite a bit of work.

Alan

[eelamb]

I agree, here is the image of the one I had done, as I said I did not like the outcome, so deleted it.

[eelamb]

Not like me to quit on something so started over, and here is my results. The fur could still be better, but heights are better.

[Alan Malmstrom]

Nice work! I think it would work to etch the fur into the wood with a wire wheel after the carve. In any case I feel that perhaps the only way to finish a piece like this would be to use various shades and colors of stain (or paint) on the different elements of the design.

Alan

[eelamb]

Alan great idea on the wire brush, now see I have to throw this one away too. LOL

Speaking of paint, have you ever used chalk (brush on with a stiff bristle brush) for shades, it works great. Just paint as normal use the chalk to shade areas or add the dirt look, then clear coat.

[Alan Malmstrom]

Don't throw it out just work with it after carving.

On second thought it would probably work better to add fur on wood using a carving chisel set. Wire brush would probably just coarsely abrade the surface. Sanding wouldn't be necessary after chiseling.

Did you use Photoshop on that Eddie?

Alan

[eelamb]

No I use Silo, Moi, and sculptris, in modeling. I used Moi mostly, even though after I changed the colors while working with it, I noticed it could be imported into designer directly, so all I actually did was to make a mess of the fur. LOL

The file was a PNG before upload here with invisible background, worked much better for importing using png format.

Forgot I use paintshop pro 6 for editing most my images. I do have PS cs5 but hardly use it and it is on my laptop not office pc.