Robin Williams Handmade Design Workshop: Create Handmade Elements for Digital Design

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With Wood Blocks

I’ve had a fondness for wood carving ever since one of my fi rst

art instructors (and the best), Max Hein (who told me years

later he had thought I’d never amount to anything), suggested

I carve the image for a poster assignment in his poster design

class. “What’s a wood carving?” I asked. He sent me home with

the tools and a piece of wood and after putting my two-year-old

to bed, I carved Mark Twain’s face into a piece of pine. Which

goes to show that even I could do it.

Wood carving is less forgiving than linoleum and rubber

carving blocks, but that’s its beauty. These images are

traditionally rough ...