My counterpart, Shinichi, he s really a good artist. He can draw. I just put the block out there and hack it. I did a little wood-carving. It s so much work, and the ice is very forgiving.
Ice is a better product to work with.
Otherwise, it s very brittle and it will crack. But you create works that eventually just drip away. Ninety-nine percent of the time I don t see it melt. It ll last from five to eight hours. There s quite a wide variety.