Level 2 of this design contains the mountain ridge in the background and a small section of water behind the sailboat.  It is noted in green on your Level's Map.   Please refer to the section of Roughing Out Level 1 for the basic steps for dropping this level to it's desired depth.

The roughing out of Level 2 gives a good example of how to deal with corners in your pattern.  Crisp corners and joint lines are found through out any design, they appear wherever two lines meet.   For this example let's look at where the mountain area of Level 2 lies behind the piers in Level 4.  Start with your bench knife and make a stop cut on each side of the corner joint.  This stop cut is more of a push stroke than a pull stroke as I want the tip of the knife to cut into the corner point at about the depth of the level.  Then lay the bench knife at about a 20 to 30 degree angle to the wood.  Make a slice that runs from one side of the corner joint to the other which will remove a small triangular chip of wood.  This is the basic Chip Carving stroke and will leave clean, crisp corners.

Once the corner joints have  been established I complete the roughing out using my bench knife for stop cuts, round gouge for dropping the wood to the approximate depth of the level, then end with my chisels for a general smoothing.

For more information on the Chip Carving stroke, please see:
Chip Carving

Corner joints are found in any
carving pattern where one outline
meets another.  For this sample
it is the where the background
mountains touch the foreground piers.

Push the tip of your bench knife into
the point along each side of the corner.
Holding your knife at an angle to the wood
slice from side to side to remove a 
triangular chip of wood.

A stop cut has been made along the border
of the pattern with the bench knife.

The round gouge is used next to
remove the excess wood, dropping this
area to the general depth of the level.

The final smoothing for Level 2 has
been done with the chisel and skew chisel.

In this close-up you can see the clean, crisp
corners that were first created with the 
Chip Carving strokes.

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