While considered by many carvers an essential woodcarving skill, the intricacy and detailing required when carving faces, realistic and stylized alike, can be daunting even for the most seasoned craftsman. In Carving Faces in Wood, master woodcarver and social media sensation, Alec LaCasse, details eight easy steps for carving human faces for beginners. Using rules of proportion, Alec guides readers through every aspect of carving male and female faces. Included in this comprehensive illustrated instructional guide are chapters on basic tools, building a home-carving station, wood selection including birch, poplar, and trembling pine, design, creating and finishing. A woodcarver since the age of 12 and instructor starting at age 16, Alec now teaches woodcarving at his online school and in his highly popular, informative, and entertaining social media instructional videos.