powerpenguin Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 I want to start practicing carving on chalks and refining techniques before moving onto real soaps, but I can not for the life of me find out where to get these... I'm located in Toronto, ON, study in London, ON... WHERE CAN I BUY CHALKS (That are cheaper) to start practicing on, which are the same size as DAT official soaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thirdtimeisacharm? Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 you could try IQ's carving kit. It came with instructions and techniques for carving and some chalks for practice. The figures they gave was pretty helpful. I wouldn't practice too much with chalk, as carving with soap is quite different. http://www.iqpublications.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PintApples Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 Also carving chalks would probably wear down your blade much faster than using soaps. It might be better just to use chalks to practice drawing out your layouts quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mare Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 I want to start practicing carving on chalks and refining techniques before moving onto real soaps, but I can not for the life of me find out where to get these... I'm located in Toronto, ON, study in London, ON... WHERE CAN I BUY CHALKS (That are cheaper) to start practicing on, which are the same size as DAT official soaps? The consistency of the chalk is very different from soap and will not react to the knife blade in the same ways soap will. The soap is much softer and therefore easier to make a mistake with a sharp blade. Learning to be gentle with the soap from the beginning is a good thing! However, if you absolutely insist on using chalk, you could try the thick (usually colored) street chalk - probably the closest in size to the official soaps. The chalk will likely dull your blade much more quickly than soap, so hopefully you can sharpen the blade or have an extra blade on hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xylem29 Posted August 22, 2009 Report Share Posted August 22, 2009 My advice would be to start right away on soap, and not waste any time or money on chalk. There's no need. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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