Award winning caricature carver Richard Houlden designed and illustrated for you twelve colorful characters born from his first love, cartooning. Whether you're a new carver or an old hand looking for some new ideas, this book delivers plenty of designs and characters for your carving pleasure and enjoyment. This book is filled with color photographs from two talented carvers of two of his carving patterns to give visual clues during the carving process. This is a pattern book first and foremost, put together to give you 12 brand new patterns for carving from the mind of a carver/cartoonist.