Nightwalker is amazing! So beautiful! It embodies everything I love about the look of wood cuts. I, too, can't wait to see the finished piece. Thank you so much for this demonstration and explanation of all the tools!

Thanks for the details about sharpening the tools. I haven’t found that anywhere else, very useful! And a lovely piece of work!

Thank you Oliver. I'm about to start making my first woodblock and your work has inspired me, your video is a fabulous lesson.

Thanks. One of the most informative tutorials on this subject I have seen.

Your artwork is amazing can't wait to see the finished print.

Thank you, Oliver! I'm working on a very fine piece and wasn't sure how to proceed. Your video has me thinking about all the possibilities as well as the care with which you carve.

Awesome video - thanks for demonstrating. Great detail in your pieces. I'm jumping from pen and ink to Woodcut and this is really helpful

Great tutorial, appreciate your time and effort.

Gorgeous work! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.

Nice to see you have made the surface black... I battle to see in the negative using unpainted board.. I will try this technique now. Great video!

Your work is beautiful!! Thanks for putting this together! I found it quite useful! Namaste!

As a former teacher, I can well appreciate your excellent tutorial. Thank you. Cecelia

Thanks for sharing! Hope to see the print soon, and further tips.

Nice work!!! Thanks for sharing info on the tools....so often videos are only about the technique! Looking forward to seeing the finished image! ni

Great overview. I really appreciate this intro and your work is really beautiful and inspiring.

Very useful tips on how to use the tools!

amazing! very helpful and useful. thanks! love your work

great vid mate..i'm just starting so eating up all the good info

Excellent video. Thanks!

Hi it is great to see some one to show how to use the tools . I am self taught but this will help me even more .In my study's for my degree . I am in Australia Thank you Rose

Beautiful work !!

@liam thompson This is made on Shina Plywood from McClain's

Great demo video!

What a cool print!

Thanks so much for taking the time and effort to make this video, it's been very helpful :)

1/4th of the way done?? it looks fantastic! thanks for the tips!! awesome video

Great tutorial, thanks

Very nice work, brethren!

Thank you! Very helpful.

Great work man .

This was great thanks!

Thank you! This is lovely

Beautiful piece

very beautiful work

Awesome!!

I love this.

Very good teaching on how to use the tools. Thanks. Would like to see better picture of how you use both hands while carving.

Wonderful! I was wondering what the knives were for!

i like that idea that he colour to black wood :D

thank you very good tutorial

The block you referred to as a "sharpening block" is actually for stropping. I am a seasoned woodcarver with more than 50 years of experience. I use ceramic sharpening stones for sharpening, and then I apply a green stropping agent called Zam to my stropping board. I also strop my knives, chisels and gouges often during a carving session to keep the edge polished. There are various types of stropping agents, but I have used Zam for many years, and it works marvelously to keep my tools polished nicely. Thank you, by the way, for sharing your beautiful work with us. Great piece!

big help. thanks

Might be a good idea to rotate your gouges when pulling them back on the sharpening block so the entire edge is honed.

Can I do it with wax? Wonderful craftsmanship! Amazing!

If you wanted to transfer a pre-existing sketch onto the woodblock for printing would that be possible and how would you do it? Thanks for the great video.

Wonderful, thankyou so much. What kind of wood are you using.😁🌼🌻🌷

I have a set of traditional wood carving tools...gouges etc. brand Flexcut and Helvie, OCC.....would cutting into Linoleum hurt them? I sharpen them on a mounted leather strop.

Like your designs how did you come up with that and what wood did you use?

Hi! Thanks for the video! Were did you buy the very small tools? are they from a japanese brand? They look great!

Will you share what the wood you chose is? It’s from mclains? And the greenish stuff on the sharpening stone? Thanks for the explanations. I haven’t done wood cutting yet.

There are a lot of US brand gouges on amazon I've been looking at. What do you think of those? Can't you also just use a boxcutter blade for cutting out outlines? They are very sharp and can be replaced easily.

thanks for the video :D

Could you please tell us where you bought those micro-sized gouges, they look quite handy Excellent work by the way, I'm glad I found printmaking

Stunning work dude! Whats the brand of the wooblock tools?

Great video! What kind of wood were you using in your video?

The best tutorial! You are very talented. Can you tell me what you used on the block to make it black?

This is really beautiful!

I am increasingly interested in this type of art making, and would be interested in your opinion on this - What are the pros and cons of wood printmaking Vs Lino printmaking.I have only ever used Lino in the past.

Great Stuff! Where did you get your tools? Love the detail.

Thx for video am from Thailand guys.....555

Hey great tutorial! I was told to sharpen my knife sideways, and I've heard of the pulling back method. I'm just wondering if ever sharpened your tools sideways and weather it's more effective to do the pulling thing.

Can you use Lino cutters on wood for detail ?

excellent info FIVE STARS :)

What's the black background on the wood? Is it a ground, paint or ink?

You are very symmetrical, with a good "radio" voice and nice hands. Perhaps those are tell tale signs of artistic ability? The carving looks terrific. Do you sell your work? Thank you so much for sharing; I found the information very useful. Bye now

its a diferent way made it , but it looks amazing . I thought you didnt you a sketch but i realize that you made your sketch with pencil right ? however its amazing i would like to see all your works and can you tell me how much you spend in all the materials please :D

Receive Greetings...!!! Beautiful art and work...!!! But what is the black colour?and is it on wood plate? Regards, Mahesh (Mumbai)

cool bro

I`m sure that is chrome oxide compound on your sharpening block (or chrome oxide itself if it looks like powder. But thats not good at all, I hope my russian goldsmith teacher is the last one to use chrome oxide to sharpen and polish tools) Thank you for sharing, your artworks are amazing!

can you share where to buy these tools?

Are you drawing first(with what?) then brushing the sumi ink on top? Also, how will you be printing? Baren or press(if so, what kind)? Thank you for the video! Beautiful linework!

What kind of wood are you using in the video?

I would love to know if or when a print from this demo could be purchased. Awesome work.

Where can I find a tutorial of how to draw like this?

I was trying to see your work on your site but "This site can’t be reached www.olivermichaelrobertson.com’s server IP address could not be found.". I noticed the woodmarks are not deep . Does the cut just need to be surface deep?Because sometimes with my lino the ink goes into the cut, especially for wider cuts. Do you also use a dremel?

I'm doing a complicated woodblock with a lot of mid tones...do you have any specific recommendations on creating different mid tones? Great video, thanks!

What wood do you use

Hi Oliver, Did you ever get prints made? Still would like one.

Hi!! Im taking printmaking currently I'm wondering what brand are you using for your wood carving tools and where did you get them?:p your vid is so helpful!!!

What's the wood your working on?

are u printing on fabrics or papers?

Hi and thanks. Can I ask if u can get black surfaced lino in the US? In Oz there are grey and terracotta colured soft lino but no black as far as I know...this would help actually enormously to already see your contrast effect b4 inking.. also 2) could u please get the name of the resin-like chalk surface u apply to sharpening block? thanks again, it was v. informative

I got accepted to a printmaking scholar-ship... which is why I came here for advice. :3

wow!

Hi I'm just kinda starting to learn and teach myself how to do woodblock printing and I was wondering if you could figure out what the blade sharpener is called I'm kinda confused about it.

what size tools do you find you use the most for U and V gouge?

Please did you paint the wood black and if you did what paint please

Hi Oliver, Do you print with a hand bare? Nice work....

how to aply at t-shrt?

Oliver, I just came back cross your video, did you ever get this printed? is there a chance to get a print from it and what would it cost if so? Justin

Post more!!

Did you paint it black before cutting?

Do you have a suggestion of how to carve small perfectly round circles?

You need a white background because we cannot see the difference, u gauge etc.

Do you have the finished work to view? Very nice work.

What type of wood would you recommend?

What paper do you use for printing?

Máster class to do a block

hi, thanks for the video…..do you use japanese tools, which or the companies… also I'm from india so are alternative preferably natural woods to the "shina plywood"

how much was your wood carving tools?