Some time ago on vacation we had this awesome cedar tree with cut off branches, so I could just cut off a little more and have perfect thick wood pieces.

I obsessed quite a lot over it (no shit I think sailors made them because they were lonely) but then figured out the wood was too dry and the arm is too short.

I could probably carve the rest with a dremel or so.

The hardest part was carving out a tilted face, surrounded by hair, wearing a hat, with an arm underneath. Holy shit, that was soo hard and I have aphantasia so my brain wasn’t really able to process that, but the result is quite fine!

The process

  1. Saw out the tail and rough shape

  1. Carve the rough shape

  1. Hips and more details

  1. Belly and chest

  1. Details of belly and chest

  1. Shoulders, collarbones, head, the messed up hair part

  1. Sailor hat, lying arm, giving up lol

(Crazy that I never shared this anywhere)

  • Entropy
    20·
    2 days ago

    That’s really cool, but why did you censor your hands lol

    • pantherina@feddit.orgOP
      14·
      2 days ago
      Because I can lol and...

      well, once you upload stuff to the fedi you have to assume it will reach hundreds of weird servers. If I was an AI company I would have one. And they do whatever they want with it.

      If you delete a pic, doesnt matter.

      And as things currently go, a future where people can be identified easily via finger- and handprints is very likely. Like there is so much material out there, you just need the legal (or kinda legal) access to scrape it.

      Maybe we get an AI that can generate fingerprints of celebrities soon? The amount of images they scrape…

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    6·
    2 days ago

    Future sapient crabs: “Ancient humans must have worshipped these sea goddesses as late as the Cenozoic era. They carved these wooden figures as magical totems they could take with them, to remind them where they came from.”

    Nice work!