Direct Stone Carving Method: You look at the properties and dimensions of the stone. Sometimes color (veining) is a factor.
1) remove the "skin" of the stone and impurities
2) as you go into the stone you get to understand the properties of the stone
3) the drawing board: draw a number of designs to find a design to fit the stone. Sometimes the stone dictates the design and as you get into the stone it starts to take shape.
4) You refine the images of the shape of the stone using an accumulation of planning and the nature of the stone.
5) Finishing the stone is done, sometimes polished, sometimes kept raw.
* See Juan Jucalam for examples of this method.

Lost Wax Method:
The Bronze Casting Process Using Lost Wax Method (One Casting):
1) make a drawing
2) clay model
3) mold (usually rubber, sometimes plaster)
4) a wax or plaster from the mold is casted
5) then the wax is retouched
6) brought to a foundry where it is "gated" (pipe work for wax to escape and bronze to enter).The wax is put into a investment material (molded into) (1 part plaster silica & 1 udo) then add water to liquify. The wax is put in the center and allowed to harden then burnt out. The mold is now free of wax and replaced with liquified bronze and allowed to solidify. Once it cools down the mold is broken and remove the bronze. Then the piece is cleaned, the vents cut off and finished by hand. The final stage is patina.

Stone: The stone used is taken from various countries, from quarries, hand selected for the unique color.