[Akeyla]

Just drop me a PM (or better email at akeyla @ gmx.ch with ” christmas card ” in the title) with your addy and I will send you back mine 🙂

[Akeyla]

*kicks thread up again*

[Akeyla]

thanks all 🙂
GB: and you’ll definitly get the first one, if he gets done 🙂 I also need to write you bout meeting n stuff… havent forgotten, just never got to 😉

meanwhile, I finished the kirin.
And cause I am lazy I am copy-pasting the text:

a glance to my bookshelf made me realize in horror, that there still stood the kirin there, a project I started 1.5 years ago. A bit to long for polymer actually. Polymer is practically unspoilable, but my experience showed me that works older than 1.5 years tend to get brittle-breaks, something that needs resculpting if its in dangerous places. You can still remove the clay and reuse it, after kneeding it and warming it again.
Luckyly this hasnt happened yet and so I quickly finished some details and baked the girl. She is a Kirin based on a sketch I made 3 years ago. She will still receive curly mohair on her belly and back, still unsure if I can get it to stand like the hair here:
http://akeyla.deviantart.com/art/out-of-the-wood-42238321
but it would be worth a try.
Anyhow, here is the basic coat, the rest will be a lightbrown golden and her fur will be lightbrown. IF I can find the friggin mohair again. As usual I put some of my crafts away as to not loose them and to be where I can refind them… which I of course dont.
for the time being, here she is.
She bears some of my better handmade eyes. And yes, that is no right “horse posing”, I am already happy it looks like deer feet and not like the klutzensteins I used to do.

(Kirin is reserved for the time being to GB, please tell me if this is still ok 🙂 )

and a doodle of Antralis:

[Akeyla]

thanks all!

I have all the prints done now and am ready to send out the Christmas Card 🙂

I’ve also been scratching round doing a gryphon cast (at school) (after I explained my teacher that an eagle with a feline rear is a gryphon. he . did . not . know.) in cement. I dont know how soon he’ll be done and how many will be made. I just decided it was time to learn silicone casting, because I noticed that at conventions I simply cant keep pace with handmade originals and what is the demand. And because latex and me dont get along (the amoniak)

the form is rather simplified(in pose and basic form), originally made for pure plaster casting only (lost form, has to be easyer releasable without to many undercuts)

[Akeyla]

AUGH!

done!

[Akeyla]

thats exactly what made me respect Pans Laby so much. Of course we could have done with less blood (and I hate the bottle scene), but it was real life violence as found out there at that time. And how it really could be. Now and then.
And the creatures are of an ugly beauty, fairytale and yet flesh eating, something that makes them very real.
IMO

[Akeyla]

Krabat is not bad.
Though there’s some major difference to the book (The satanic mill, Ottfried Preussler, a mus read!)

http://www.krabat-derfilm.de

I am not sure if it will be translated into english, as it has been made in Germany (the “home of the book”)

about the story:

(copypaste, srry, lazy)

Set in the early 18th century, the story follows the life of Krabat, a 14-year old Wendish (i.e. Sorbian) beggar boy living in the eastern part of Saxony. For three consecutive nights, he is called through a dream to a watermill near the village Schwarzkollm. Upon heeding the call and arriving at the mill, he begins his apprenticeship as a miller’s man. He soon joins the secret brotherhood, composed of journeymen and apprentices, and discovers that the skill he is meant to learn through this apprenticeship is Black Magic. The first magic powers Krabat acquires are rather harmless, such as the ability to turn himself into a raven. Other peculiarities of this watermill include the lack of any outside visitors, including farmers who would have brought grain. The only visitor to the mill is one Goodman, who may be the devil, although this is never made explicit.

The senior apprentice Tonda, Krabat’s best friend and older brother figure, dies, ostensibly of an accident, on New Year’s Eve in Krabat’s first year at the mill. Tonda offers strangely little resistance to his own death. Krabat’s suspicions of foul play are further reinforced when another journeyman and friend, Michal, dies the following New Year’s Eve. He soon realizes that the master is bound in a pact to the Goodman: the master must sacrifice one journeyman every year on New Year’s Eve, in exchange for his powers.

Wishing to take revenge for his friends’ death, Krabat secretly trains to increase his magical strength so he can fight the master. His quest is aided by a girl from the nearby village, a church singer, whose name is never mentioned. Krabat learns that to end the spell, his lover must challenge the master for him; then whoever loses the challenge, the master or the two lovers, will die. The master offers Krabat another solution: He will retire and let Krabat inherit the mill, along with the pact to the Goodman; but Krabat refuses to perpetuate the evil pact. So the challenge goes ahead, and the girl’s task is to distinguish Krabat from the rest of the journeymen, all dressed identically and standing motionless in a lineup, while she is blindfolded. She manages to pick him out by the fact that he fears mainly for her life, while the others fear mainly for their own. Ultimately, she rescues Krabat from death, and they and the journeymen escape the mill. The master is left to die in the burning mill on New Year’s Eve, while the survivors lose all their magic powers and are now simply millers who have to provide for themselves through normal hard work.

[Akeyla]

thanks all 🙂

and GB, his name be whatever you dare call him 😉 its your dragon and you must know his dignity and temper, lol 😉
workin at him, he’s gonna be aerobrushed, my boy’s been bugging me to use my airbrush, so I’ll premiere it on him 🙂

been doodling on the Xmas card. Many of you already know the procedure of this one.

[Akeyla]

thank you 🙂 I enjoyed doing the shrooms on the tigerlady 🙂
here’s more concept art, this time more boring fishy.

The Dodorizwei will be bright red and the size of a wheel (or bigger). Trelses (the whiskered ones) grow about half as long as a man whiles Hookswarmers only get as long as a hand

[Akeyla]

NOOOO!

STan WInston (Maker of JP Dinosaurs) died too this year! whats this? Mass loss of talent? NOEZ!

[Akeyla]

thanks all 🙂

I’ve got some new works, here’s “Evergreen” made some weekend ago on a Convention. The actual size of the image is A3 (double letter) the frame’s of course bigger.
Digital take, cause I put the image in the frame and forgot to take a scan. Since its a screwing frame I decided to picture the whole thing. Lazy me 😉

then some school sketches on leftover bookbinding paper. Since the paper was unpressed and all wavy the scanner made some ghostly shades… darned thing. The spots are made by… mold. But no worries, the paper has been desinfected and cooked.

[Akeyla]

Dragon87 wrote:

That huge horned bird… I see it having trouble walking…. I take it the horns are ridiculously light (and/or flexible in some way?)… I LOVE the deer like things though! Spikey deer! Awesome! 😆

lol, thats the cool part, the horns are used as sledges, hence the name “Sandläufer” (Sandrunner).
but yes, they would be not as dense as normal horns. That way they can still wip em up for attacking

[Akeyla]

thanks for the commets!
I’ve added some new ones, descriptions to follow:

[Akeyla]

Greater Basilisk wrote:

Love ’em all! I can’t wait to see that book.

expect to have gray hair then 😉 lol
no, I will return to writing soonish and revive my beta readers 🙂 I’d love to have you there, if you have time an interest and cetera co 🙂

(unfortunately its german, if people speak german here, feel free to get on the Beta-group too)

[Akeyla]

Nirvanacat13 wrote:

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You might want to look into copyrights for your cockatrice fluff thing….It looks awfully akin to something in a video game I am currently playing…There may be enough of a difference it won’t matter, but I thought I’d bring it up.

Everything else looks absolutely FAB, and I love it all!

I can’t find a good pic of it, but you get the idea…
thanks for the hint!
I am aware that the idea of a round bird/animal is quite common (I’ve seen a few).
From what I can see however I believe it should be far enough away, mine is more of a bird/lizard than a chicken/dragon/monster. As soon as I will color it and put it into its proper world it should (aside from round bird) fall fully out of relation, as we are talking about an agile creature as big as an orange inhabiting trees. My actual worry was that it mostly resembles a… snitch. Or one of these round creatures in Star Wars… must check name But please give me more descriptions/names, I’d like to check it up 🙂

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