I Carved A Herd Of Bison From A Pencil Graphite

I’ve carved quite a few pencils over the years, but this one was the most time-consuming and tedious! Have a look at the video and let me know what you think.

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Here’s a video showing the carving from a few angles

An ‘in progress’ photo with my thumb added for scale

Here I’ve added a ‘Buffalo Nickel’ for scale

Here’s a nice in progress shot of the herd, close up. Each bison is about 3/32″ tall and just over 1/8″ long

Another in progress shot of the herd kicking up dust! It’s harder than you would think, to photograph a carving this small

A top down view of the herd. There are 50 bisons running across the carpenter’s pencil!

A side view of the herd. After blocking in the individual bison, I went back and detailed them before calling it final

The leader at the front of the herd