Soap Carving Project





SOAP CARVINGS

For this project I carved a polar bear out of soap two times. This was my first time ever carving soap and it was very challenging. The first one was very difficult for me in regards to shaping the body but once I started the second one it was a little easier. My first carving I was looking it from really only two angles the entire time, so in my second carving I looked at the bear from all angles and tried different areas every few minutes as opposed to just focusing on one area for a long time and taking away too much soap (like I did in my first attempt).

Overall the project was a lot harder than it looked but I did learn a lot of proportions and angles.



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