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Mine is all done. 😀 It’s one I certainly wouldn’t mind keeping, it came out very nicely! My first time painting that particular sculpture, too.
Here’s what I’m working on now. This is going to be another psychedelic foo dog, to go with the little guy. I’ve got all the base colors on, now I just need to add the glowy bits.
I painted the backs of some blank eyes, actually. It makes them possibly less archival, but the glow paint seems unlikely to peel, given its consistency, and if it ever does I figure it’ll be easy enough to repair, so I’m willing to warranty them if I sell them. 😀
Love your new Kirin and that psychedelic foop is awesome ! I wish I could come up with great color schemes that easy 😉
All my color schemes are borrowed from somewhere else. :3
Oh wow. Doing all those scales… I did a tiny My Little Pony mer-horse once and it took forever. I can hardly imagine how long that must have taken!
This looks great, and if I may ask, how were you able to take the glow in the dark photo, what kind of set-up did you have? What kind of glow in the dark paints do you use? I love the blue!
The photo took a lot of fiddling, but it boils down to putting the camera on manual everything, putting it on a tripod, and setting up a super-long exposure in a room as dark as you can get it. (I think 15 seconds ended up being the right amount of time?)
The paints are actually a pigment powder set I found on ebay. I think they were intended for nail art. They’re really nice! Some colors are brighter than others, but they’re all fairly bright. Although they don’t act like “paint” at all, not like when I mix up pearlex powders, which are exactly like any metallic paint when mixed into medium. These are more like a gritty paste, and take some getting used to.
And while I had the glow pigments out, I did this little guy too. I’ve been wanting to do a psychedelic foo for ages. Although I had the worst time trying to get the glow photos. Only one of them really came out at all.
Now I’m trying to decide what to do with the foo parents set I have. I’ve got two foo pups. Do I paint parents for the willow-and-stone one, or for the psychedelic one, or one of each? Or should I just buy two more and paint a pair for each? 😀
I’ve been on a painting kick again! After finishing my swap PYO, I dug out a mostly-finished kirin and got that done too.
(click for bigger pics.)I REALLY love working in glow in the dark. It is ridiculous and weird and not at all like normal paint, but man it’s fun! Also glitter is fantastic. (And this glitter will not flake off, I took great pains with that.)
I’ll be putting this one up for sale, probably, as I could use the funds. But it’ll be one of those ones where I don’t much mind if it doesn’t sell. 😀
I don’t collect them, but I do own a couple, and I think they’re great! Their attention to detail is fantastic, though moreso, I feel, with the real life animals than with the fantasy ones.
Funny story: I used to work for a children’s museum that had a castle play table for the youngest kids. We used to have to replace the knights and other toys there nearly every month, what with hundreds of kids playing with them every week. Until we started buying Schleich knights. The weapons sometimes broke still, but the knights and horses themselves would last for months and months before needing replacement. Those things are SUPER durable!
My work today was doing casting, which has a lot of sitting around and waiting for things to set. So I hauled out the PYO I’m doing and got most of it painted in between pouring things. 😀 I think I’ll be done pretty soon! I really love how its coming out so far. I tried some new stuff, which is going well.
I like it! But I find it kind of annoying that the cheapest level you can get the actual sculpture for includes a T-shirt/tote bag. Why make people pay extra for something they may or may not want? That’s just silly. I wish campaigns wouldn’t do that. You should always have a level where people can just get the thing you’re making without any frills. (Not that I could afford it anyway right now, I’m pretty broke, but still…)
I happened to have the right PYO on hand, so I am painting today. 😀 It’s already looking pretty good, I think. Hopefully I won’t ruin it!
I just uploaded a video to the page, in case anybody wants to see me rambling on about ponies and embroidery, and showing off adorableness.
Well, today has been just the LAST straw for me, and I am never taking another fursuit commission, probably not EVER again. Plushes yes, fursuits no. I am just sick of the stress, and the demands, and the people who are upset it doesn’t have things they never asked for in the first place, and the complaints, and the passive-aggressive nonsense and the backstabbing of customers who never told ME anything was wrong, and… I am just done. So done. Today somebody was upset because he couldn’t wear is PANTS over his PADDED fursuit! In what reality would anybody expect that to be possible? Oh and also it didn’t fit in his luggage. How the flip is that my problem? Seriously, how?! So I am done. I never want to deal with this crap ever again.
