[Akeyla]

I do/did. I took a break from them because they are pretty time consuming and noone beats FITA or Pixiewillow. They ate just like…. raised with polymer and sculpting since the were born… and blessed with time and patiende… ohwell.

here’s some I did in the past :
http://cathuman.com/ebay/wildfae2.jpg
http://cathuman.com/ebay/angelfaenews.jpg
http://cathuman.com/newart/untameablemidnightwiprastas.jpg
http://cathuman.com/newart/T-rexdreamsss.jpg
http://cathuman.com/newart/mistoandvics.jpg
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/21356349/?qo=180&q=by%3Aakeyla&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/17531286/?qo=223&q=by%3Aakeyla&qh=sort%3Atime+-in%3Ascraps
ttp://www.deviantart.com/deviation/8973279/?qo=2&q=+come+with+me+akeyla&qh=boost%3Apopular+age_sigma%3A24h+age_scale%3A5
http://cathuman.com/newart/lughchesla.jpg

I posted some that are not fairy but run under ooak, mainly for things like wings or fur or even the polymerclay process called “millefiory”.

It depends what you want to know, be warned in advance that this is a difficult medium to handle, I know this because I saw FITA’s works (the lady that earns 11 grands for a sculpture, atleast back when ebay was better) was floored and I tried and I was really frustrated. Hard training and patience is mainly needed. She makes it look so easy.
human anatomy is nasty, handling the clay without getting moons/dust even more. You will need delicate tools and special hair, special oilcolors, special polymer for wings and tons of time and nerves. You will need to know about armature and the properties of polymers and any other media working with it or being in it (some armatures melt or blacken)

I suggest you go to patriciarosestudio.com and check up one of her free tutorials. get yourself some super sculpey and white premo, mix them to get skin color and give it a try. When you feel you want it I’d recommend buying Patriciaroses DVD on making faes or asking on the OOAK forum (forgot addy). You can also buy pressmolds for fairies by patricia. I dont know quite what else to suggest but to say give it a try and feel free to ask back, I dont have tuts but if you need to know something I can try to guide you via email.
Sounds stupid to say but I know way more than what my works suggest, tried a lot, experimented a lot. failed. smoked house and mahself.
I know parts of this reply are discouraging, but please do try, it is fun. I am just giving you a realistic insight of my experience. Doesnt mean you will fail as miserable as I did (burned it, crumbled it, smooshed it, all in one mutilated fae) when i made my first one 😉

greets

Aky

[Akeyla]

thanks all 🙂
I will scetch… as soon as I get time :/
anyhow, here is the semi colored stage, it still awaits more antiqueing aswell some staining of the cover has been done but water reflects the light so I have to wait until it dries… *waits waits waits*
thats the annoying part on traditional art: you have to wait.

[Akeyla]

thanks all 🙂
didnt get to do more other works yet, neither scan the other ones. I will hopefully tomorrow. Anyhow, here’s the idea that hit me yesterday at 10 am and that i just finished baking now. It awaits coloring.
Its a custom scetchbook-sleeve. It fits all A4 spiralbound scetchbooks. And it has made me soooo happy!

[Akeyla]

thanks all 🙂 I will try to scan those two tomorrow.
@Basilisk: seeehhhr schlächt, zumindescht bis nach Uffehrt. Die hend eus mit Schuelsch… zuekleischteret und im Praktikum hemmer am 11 Vernissage das heisst alli drülle dure. Und zwüschedure müemer uf Selma (Feriehuus) go…. scheisse vo de wänd chratze. aber i halt di uf em laufende, was isch den dini numere? (PM)?

@Kyrin thanks 🙂
uhm, its Mephit Mini Con. Germany. http://mmc.furcon.eu/ hmmm… similar names

since I live in Switzerland US Cons are nono for me :/ I live after the rule travel + stay = atleast income art. And since its onegrand and a half plus 300 stayandfood I am still well… lacking 4/5 th of a grand to make that math work. Adding the fact that I hardly know people at US Cons really (that freaks me… thats my odd side 😉 ).
I did want to come to FC in 2008, but I dont think I will though :/ to much stress. But I mail in art every year to FC 🙂

greets

Aky

[Akeyla]

haha! I just pictured how the wearer of that would get stuck in our spiral stairs 😉 seriously amazing work, especially concerning size and lenght 🙂

greets

Aky

[Akeyla]

edit:
Basilisk, didnt know it early enough but last tuesday we were in Sihlau, soundstudio across the bridge… I first thought it was Adliswil but then we stopped at Sihlau… GIRL YOU NEED A MOBILE! dang… could have brought you bugwing. But now we’re in Liestal again 🙁

[Akeyla]

thanks all!
here’s how far I got this weekend(and last)

pictures of them framed. Since I did not scan them I will sell them at MMC with the rights (the new ones).
we’ve had minor problems this weekend because a canalisation pipe nuked and our holidayhouse was flooded in poop (4 inches high). For months, meaning the chairscarpetstableswalls were coated in mold.
And I was the one to discover it last friday 11pm with my honey. Overwhelming sight.

greets

Aky

[Akeyla]

first of all, thanks for the replies 🙂 am a tad to busy these days, no real time for art even if its ticktock.

Before I go to replies, here the current WIP.
He is not in the right pose but I left him like that because it makes him look cute-naughty, or as said in German, schelmisch. Still more work to do on the scales. The yellow “frame” is tape bway

@Saydee: I need the gryphon for an artshow (MMC/Mephit Mini Con in early May), I will set him for 25 Euros (about 33$) starting bid, framed in glass. If you are interested please drop me a mail/PM, I can see what I can do, perhaps reserve it 🙂
I plan to make prints of all, though I first have to find a good scanner and printer. WHat you see on screen isnt half IRL. Its a certain natural glow of Caran DAche that gives them their true beauty, and most of that is lost in the scan.

@lamortefille: thanks 🙂 actually , its a furry creature for a furry artshow. It has no real animal its fully based on, its just a mixed love for equids and horns 😉 Furry stands as for humanized animals, she would look similar full body view to this lady:
http://www.cathuman.com/2006/theladyfromtheforrests.jpg

greets

Aky

[Akeyla]

decided to make a second thread because the old one is… tatzelwurm-long. And the artworks here are not ebay pieces but more artshow/show pieces. I will also plan to print these, either single or portfoliowise..
Feedback is very appreciated as I have been sitting with my nose an inch away from the paper, I am as good as blind and commentless on these now. I am yet trying to find the right way to express myself in artwork. Furry, the main subject in some of them (due to artshows) is not what will be my forever focus, but aquarell … I start to like the stuff, its become obediant to me finally 🙂
these for today are done on A4-A3, watercolors.

I hope to have a wolf and a dragon done by tomorrow.
They are all for an artshow this may, thanks to previous experience I started early (I know my snail butt), yet twice as many to come still :/

if you wonder why these look all to the right, I ws miffed at myself for drawing onesided, heads to the left, as it is easyer for a right-hander. Now I am onesided the other way round. cool, eh?

greets

Aky

[Akeyla]

*chirps*
is this guy still around?
anything I can do to adopt him?
like… selling my hands?

[Akeyla]

I guess I was always lucky, I only once got a very cool comment many many years ago. That was when i started with sculpture and mainly did CATS musical sculptures (for eyeball fun: http://www.mingvase.de/images/zoom/KTDXKD/viewsize/figur10.jpg ) and someone asked me if I could make a “I saw a cat sculpture for 10$ at a garage sale and wondered if you could do me a Mistoffelees for the same price” commissions. I kindly told him that with that he had not even paid for material and kilning yet.
People like that do not even deserve a reply really.
What i get more is people hitting me for trades. I like to do trades but a trade has to remain something fair. For quite a while and even until now many people think its cool to “once get my charactere as a sculpture”. The point is, there are actualy people who show up and say: I would soooo much like my spotted wolf chihuaua charactere XY as a sculpture, would you trade with me? Oh, but I only do canine forms and I only do pencils.
me: meet my characteres (http://cathuman.com/2007/joeaky.jpg)

I have/had a rough guideline whereto I send people wanting a commission to check the fees: http://cathuman.com/comission/comission/comissionakeyla.html
They can find out roughly what they have to expect and I have a guideline to stick to. Depending on the orders and the persons I would also go down with the prices.
I base my commiss prices on what I believe to be realistic in long term view of my own sales. Its much higher than what I’d get working normal terms in Switzerland. Plus its fun. I base this on what i see averagly sold, but you all know there are pieces/works that end very cheap and others that jump into spheres of highmoneyfication. Its okay with me and I dont support madechina.
Its also only the people who are really serious with their money and what they want that will also end getting a commission from me. I do not take launching payment at the moment the commission comes, but I warn that I may take up to a year. Kills out 50% of the applicants but it is fine with me. I enjoy free art more, because I do not have to depend on someone’s guidelines which can be very hard and killing a lot of the artworks life.
I am told to be underselling my direct sales. But you must know that with the exception of big pieces or delicate medias (skin color polymer, oils) I do my works at school (illegally *g*), on trainrides, infront of the tube. I hardly erase, I use reference rarely, I hardly plan. I use more or less quality medias but I buy when its on sale and stock it or I drag it with me from school *cough illegal cough*.
and I am a speedy artist. I am about a 2x factor faster than an average(my works work better scetchy stile).

I feel its fully your right to stick to whatever price you want to. It is your creation, your time. If people dont want it tell them to do better. I do not think your prices are “crazed high”, they are just right (for the right audience) and they are lovely.
I know that specifically in the furry fandom people are used to low prices. Dont let them have that if you feel its not right for you. Even if they put you on the “havenojobotherartistscheaper” story. People have to accept they cannot buy something if they dont have the money. YOu dont know how much I’d love a plasma screen tv on the ceiling of my room. But I know I cant afford it. I bought myself an MP3 player though because I finally earned a nice bunch with my freelance. And I didnt bargain with the salesman at MediaMarkt. Bad comparison, but you get the idea 🙂 just think of that if someone like that shows up again.

And just to have it said: there is a truthful “I really dont have the money right now but I really would like* for which I will lower my prices if its a good customer, and there is a “I think I could save more money” which doesnt even deserve attention.

okay, end blabbering. I hope there is no repetitions here, went to hang wash somewhere in the middle 😉

greets

Aky

[Akeyla]

thats Ron Mueck!
he’s amazing! there’s a loong video on how he makes those:
http://blip.tv/file/94203
(beware of lenght, but a MUST watch)
its quite an amazing process, even if most of the figures are to realistic for me (never thought I’d say this *g*) in the sense of constant repetition.
What was also pretty cool in the video was to hear that he paints the molds from the inside with translucent slightly tinted glaze. Thats the way how he got the fingers (especially the nails) and also the skin to look so incredibly amazing.
I know you say one can never achieve “complete art”, but he with his human portraits has in my opinion reached the absolute perfection.

I wanna see his works IRL still. Especially the big boy.

greets

Aky

[Akeyla]

say, where do you buy your colors? got a good hint?(golden and other good acrylics)
only just last week I calculated via catalogue the amount of the minimal I’d need for some exhibit works and… ouch my eyes still hurt. I felt like starting a fire and switching to charcoal artwork…

[Akeyla]

havent told you yet but really really awesomely done!
and congrats on the sales! knew right away she would do good!
go girl!

greets
AKy

[Akeyla]

hey there!
may I ask you where you bought your clay?
The story from the top of having it professionally casted .. welll… long shory stort: total failure, either they wanted half a grand for it all or they said ” we have to flatten the design and remove the etching” hahahathankyou and before I hit my heads with them again I decided to try PMC.
Have you tried slow dry low cure yet? how did you cure it? *is eager to hear firsthand experience*
also, how is it to work with? slow drying? how is the consistence? paperclay, fimo, terracotta-ish?
*kitty eyes*

The pendant means a lot to me, I would have been ready to pay a lot and I do mean close to half a grand but not if they wanted to RE-sculpt it in that process. SLightlytouchyboutowndesign here… *fume*

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