That's beautiful.

Awesome Artwork Michael.

It’s such a natural progression to go from scratchboard to wood engraving and your style certainly works well with this medium. Beautifully done!

Thanks for sharing. Best wishes from Turkey...

Hi Mike, I love your beautiful print! Thanks for your process description materials and references!. We met years ago in Ken´s class. Now I am in the afternoon session with Brian. I tried woodblock carving and printing last semester with two mythical birds. It would have been great to have your video when I started. Still haven´t figured out the sharpening materials and techniques. I would very much appreciate it if you could teach me how to do it appropriately!

@MichaelHalbert1952

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, Eloisa, for your comment. I'm in Ken's class again this semester (1:00). Drop by anytime you want to talk woodcut. However, I'm not a teacher and you will get better information from Brian and Ken. The chickadee here is a wood engraving, which is similar to woodcut but it allows for more detail and it has its own type of cutting tools. The cutting tools for wood engraving are difficult to sharpen and I'm still trying to get better at that. But keeping woodcut and linocut tools sharp is a lot easier and I can show you an easy way to do that. Sharp tools are key for doing your best work.

Awesome work dude, keep em coming!

beautiful and inspiring!

Wow, looking forward to seeing you do more woodcuts. It looks like this medium has a lot to offer.

Great and informative, thank you!

Great video❤

It looks beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

Just wonderful...

Still watching until finish

beautiful 😍

Great work! I enjoy your style so much. I look forward to your exploration of this new medium.

Beautiful Thank you

Your technique is exceptional and I love the chickadee!

lovely

awesome. waiting for next videos...

excellent video! I was looking forward to it. Greetings from Argentina

Well done!

@MichaelHalbert1952

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Greetings from Colombia! I loved your video and the explanation. Thanks for uploading!

WoW!

Happy stumble on your channel :)

That sound at 0:35 freaked me out

@MichaelHalbert1952

3 жыл бұрын

:-) I can understand that.I'm sure you know that I'm using a text to speech app for the voice over. To make it more convincing, I put a "cough" sound effect in there. I knew it didn't really fit, but I thought I'd give it a try anyway. In the future, maybe I should make sure the voice over is artificial?

@jacobmauk5893

3 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelHalbert1952 i cant speak for others but a text to speach that sounds more natural is often easier to follow, and i appreciate how good this one is compared to many others ive heard before

@pastuh

Жыл бұрын

0:52 almost died :D

This is absolutely unreal. Beautiful detail, thanks for documenting this process

Thank you for sharing all the book recommendations. It would be great if you would write your own tutorial book. You are a master.

@tyler1944

3 жыл бұрын

I've been watching almost all of your videos and i was amazing. I'm just wondering how long did you practice and how you Lear that kind of style? Wow!!!

Thanks for this great video. I'm just getting into block printing and found your channel. Lots of good info. Also, don't be afraid to use your own voice! Your wisdom will show through.

Очень круто 👏✊👍

Nice. But can you make tutorial from start to finish? At least basics.. Apple or Tree.. No one wants creates tutorials for free, so Patreon page will make you at least +500$ in a month for sure.