3 more done. Critique wanted.

What are your plans for taking a day or two private lesson from someone at your States Association?

 

The bumps on the nose pad are to huge and raised to high. The eye shape is wrong, looks like there is an excessive amount of filler around the eye lids.

 

I think its the 2end deer. the deers right eye looks higher than the left one.

 

The biggest thing I see is there all on straight on forms..put some action in them things..take your time and use lots of reference pics..don't stop knit picking them till your happy..if you see something that don't look right, fix it..and don't let it start drying till all aspects look like the ref pics..

 

Throw the black paint away It may be the lighting but the nose and lip look black-black.

 

You might want to take a class with one of the guy`s in the training forum ; if your serious about this.

 

Sometimes it's really really hard to give a critique without sounding like a complete jerk. A couple of times in this tread it has been suggested to you to get with someone for some training. The reason they said that instead of giving more of a critique is simple. You have a lot of areas that need work. It's hard to comment because there's no place to start, and consequently, no place to stop. It is THAT bad? Yes.........it is. I hate to be the jerk, but you need some formal training. A critique really isn't going to help you much. You need help with learning TECHNIQUES. I hope that makes sense to you. I'm not trying to hurt you, but direct you. Whomever you have been exposed to isn't helping you much. A couple of days spent with someone who knows modern day taxidermy would have you up and running much faster than trying to teach you things and ways that are going to sound greek to you. If any of us started dissecting your head, it would end up as a pile on the floor, and none of us want to be that mean and cruel. We're not all pricks. But it's hard to be constructive without being seen as an ashhole sometimes. Get some training. YOU will be glad you did. Trust me.

 

The guy down the road might be convenient, but he isn't teaching you anything you can't find here. Crack your wallet, get a better teacher. As Verne, Tim and I have suggested, and if you are serious.

Guessing over and over will just empty your wallet. You will not get better by guessing, only by advanced lessons will you go anywhere. Olympic athletes even have trainers.

 

Well put Tim. You have been given some really good advice, hopefully you can find someone that offers some good one on one courses for you.

 

Danial, one teacher doesn't teach you everything. The better deer head guys take their mounts to different shows, and get advice from different judges, the associations change judges every year, or every two years, so you can get different advice. Spending money never stops for education. It always cost you something, not seeking continuous training will cost you in materials, and you can not teach yourself something that you do not know. All of us get to that point where only outside help will let you move on.

 

You're getting great advice here. I would add that you need to be patient. This takes time. Trust me, MOST people that mount a deer with an instructor will produce a nice mount in the workshop then struggle to repeat it on their own. It takes almost everyone a lot of repetition. Very few are "naturals". Good instruction is key

Couple things I've found helpful. Freeze a dead head. Seeing and feeling the anatomy under the hide helped me more than anything to help with ear butts. I have casts, but seeing it and feeling it with the hide on right next to my mount really helps.


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Jared good piece of advice. Take ur time skinning next head leaving muscle attached to the skull and freeze it. This helped me with not only earbutts but eyes and tearducts.