November 19, 2013: World record 40-foot hand-carved sculpture

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Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

By copying China's "Mona Lisa", if he accidently cuts off the head of one of the 550 people or their livestock, he can't just eliminate that person/critter and say that's what he intended to do.

I think the individual figures are not directly part of the log where they stand. I think common carving procedure is to cut a big hunk out from the trunk in the beginning, where they know most of the negative space is going to be, and then they take a block off that, carve a person, and set it into the landscape. So you could screw up a little guy, and just take another small block and try again.