Another Carving from a tree

sallyanne · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2018 5:49 am **(#1)**

Found this one on a friends page today so had to cut it out from its background and put it on another one

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12845

Like the perspective work and dropshadow work, Sallyanne.

Skinnyhouse · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2018 7:10 am **(#3)**

Impressive - to say the least!

sallyanne · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:14 am **(#4)**

Thank you Lyle. It was just the perspective shadow in gimp 2-10. I changed the direction was all.
Actually I made the background - is supposed to look like grass.
Just with a green layer. noise, motion blur set at about 10 length and 90%, sharpened and then wind.

It is impressive skinnyhouse

I think someone here (May have been somewhere else) posted a video of someone carving a dead tree once.
This is the one I saw before. It is a chain saw carving of an Eagle

Video from : www.youtube.com

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2018 9:43 am **(#5)**

Nice carving Sallyanne.
You did an excellent job at removing the background.
:coolthup

sallyanne · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:48 am **(#6)**

Thank you Wallace. Had a bit of pratice over the last few years.
I don't use the foreground select tool in gimp for removing them either but the paths tool. Then to select, feather selection

Wallace · **Posted:** Mon Apr 23, 2018 12:19 pm **(#7)**

sallyanne wrote:

Thank you Wallace.
Had a bit of pratice over the last few years.
I don't use the foreground select tool in gimp for removing them either but the paths tool.
Then to select, feather selection

You know what they say...
"Practice makes perfect"
In your case,
all that practice undoubtedly paid off.

I've always wanted to learn how to carve.
However,
I'm more interested in stone carving.
This type of carving seem more permanent to me.
After all,
there are stone carvings that are hundreds of thousands of years old.

The oldest know wood carvings,
date to around 11,000 years old.
But the oldest known stone carvings,
are about 800,000 years old.