And after you carve you print copies.
And the beautiful part is that, for a tiny fraction of the effort, and for extremely cheap (paper+ink), you can make all the copies you want. "Copia", in Latin, means "abundance", so make copies and spread the fruit of your art.
Only one person needed proper teaching so I sat next to them and whittled away while supporting them. They did not know what to do, so I suggested a mushroom. With a face. They made a nice fly agaric, yet sans face. Fun Gus was alone.