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Now that my swapee has gotten it, I figure I should upload some photos. This one was SO much fun to paint! It was originally going to be a tri-tone with purple, green, and orange, but then I started blending the colors together, and realized that didn’t work, and ended up solving the problem by turning it full rainbow. It’s a bit loud, I know, but I just love it.
(Click for bigger images.)
😀 Yay! She was way too much fun to paint. (Originally she was only going to be three colors, but then the spot where the green and orange touched really needed a little hint of gold to help it not clash so much and, well… rainbow kinda happened.)
Doot de doot de doo. *whistles and twiddles her thumbs* Everybody else is all excited for grab bags, meanwhile I’m just sitting here, waiting for new PYOs. 😀
(I’d say “waiting patiently” but I think this post is a clue that I’m pretty impatient! Though I suppose I will live if they take a while, I gather the folks at the factory have more than enough to keep them busy most days.)
I was worried when I first saw these because the fur looked awfully real, but since finding out that it’s all faux I think they’re cool! Nifty things to collect for sure. 😀
That’s part of why they’re so spendy. AS somebody who knows fur fabrics, the really nice stuff, the stuff you could mistake for real (and the stuff that I just want to roll around on whenever I get a yard of it in for a project, it’s so dang soft) can cost upwards of $100 a yard! Just for the fabric! Faux fur isn’t cheap. 😀
She’s not on here very often, but SPark also does fursuits…
Actually these days I don’t. Suits got too stressful, so I do plushes, and small costume projects like tails, but no suits. 🙂 (And also my current project list is a disaster and super-long, so now is not a good time to commission me. At least not for sewing, I do still like getting PYO commissions as they are a much-needed break from other stuff.)
I use Testor’s Dullcote for truly flat matte effects. I usually use the spray, but it comes in a brush-on form too.
Susie is very good about sending replacements! Though I found the ones I’d lost when we moved last month, so depending on which one you need, I may have a spare I can send you too. 🙂
The pyo oriental is stuck in the waiting-for-horns-to-be-done limbo. I think the ball got dropped on that project, I’ll see what is going on.
Everybody else is all excited about grab bags, and here I sit, just waiting for the oriental. Waiting, and waiting, and waiting… 😀 I have faith it’ll turn up someday! Although I am also fairly excited to try painting the hippocampus too, new PYOs are always fun, no matter what they are.
Mine is done! It came out pretty well, I think. Hopefully my partner likes it when it’s shipping time.
I finished two PYOs today, but one of them I can’t share yet. I can share this one, though. It was a commission, which I haven’t done in ages, but which are always pretty fun.
Click for bigger pics. (I had some trouble getting good ones, the lighting in my room is currently lousy, even with the lightbox and lamps. Next week’s trip to Ikea should fix that, though.)
Kickstarter tends to work with price levels, someone pledges $5 and gets a bumper sticker, or $1,500 and get 1 of 3 special painted pieces (examples)… and somewhere in the middle is the actual GB’s… and I’m not sure if there is a minimal amount of price points, so you may need to find other things to offer…
I honestly think for the amount of planning, and extra work needed for the Kickstarter to get off the ground.. it’s going to stay grounded…
Kickstarter will let you do just one price point if you want. But it will make veteran kickstarter users eye your campaign and wonder if you know what you’re doing, it’s very unusual. Then again, “unusual” doesn’t mean you’ll fail, and if you’re running it as a kind of grab-bag order, you can set the goals such that just the people from this forum are enough to make the campaign fund.
I will say, though, that kickstarter’s order management system is… a bit rough. It works, but it’s not always terribly efficient, there’s a reason really large campaigns oursource their rewards to other services that have sprung up to manage kickstarter backer fulfillment. (Though having just one reward level will simplify this, since any given order will by necessity be one single order for one single dragon.)
I’m still totally up to consult on details if you guys want to go ahead, I’ve got four successful campaigns under my belt at this point, all finished (well, I’m still making rewards for the last one. Success can be its own problem!) Susan or Melody or whoever can drop me a line any time. Heck, pay me in Windstones I’ll help actually listing and running the thing. 😀
But yeah, kickstarter itself is not a great way to get publicity, the site will not drive backers to your campaign, especially not early on. If you get fairly successful you’ll climb up their listings and be more visible, which will bring in a few extra backers, but by and large you have to do all the publicity to reach people yourself. And since they take a cut of the money you earn, if it’s just for publicity, it may not be worth it.
Mine is ordered, and arrived, but the box just got tossed with the other boxes in our moving truck and is somewhere in a pile at the new place… alas. Can’t wait until this stupid move is over and I can get back to work again!
Life keeps getting in the way of organizing such. I was going to host one next summer, but then I got pregnant, and I just do not think I could manage to run a convention, even a small, informal one, with a brand new infant at the same time.
Someday, I swear, I’ll try again! Maybe the summer after… (I’ve run mini-cons before, they are a ton of fun! “Real” conventions require waaaaaaaaaaay too much money and work and whole committees and thousands of fans to support, but mini-cons where a couple dozen enthusiasts get together to do something are sometimes more fun anyway.)
