first off the poor unsuspecting pinkie... she had no clue what was going to happen to her! and my super terrible blueprint. =P
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loginthe fiance always comes in at the worst times of the creative process, be it me boiling ponyheads in my coffeecup or generally butchering them. seeing this one he slowly backed out of the room and said hed come back later. =P
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loginwires fed in and anchored inside the head with magic sculpt, and the body bulked up with aluminum foil to keep the piece from getting ridiculously heavy.
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loginto give myself a smoother surface and save some sanding time (and to help the foil keep its shape and fight gravity during the sculpting process) i wrapped the foil in electrical tape.
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loginand we're wrapping... and we're wrapping...
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loginon a whim i decided to try real whiskers, and settled on that stretchy cording kids use to make friendship braclets... and i lucked out and found some that is hollow. super thin jewelers wire, wd40, and a lot of patience and even more foul language and rage, i managed to wire half of the length of the whiskers so theyre partially posable. the fit was too snug and the wire too bendy to successfully work it any farther in, it wanted to kink more than it wanted to go in.
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loginstarted the sculptwork, leaving a channel open down the length of the spine and belly, for bellyscales and fur.
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loginbellyscales finished.
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logini needed some raised sections along his back channel to hold and hide the glued area of his fur, i didnt want to do scales since haku looks smoother, so i went with a tiny bit of fur sculpting, still not entirely thrilled with how it turned out, but not terrible.
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logincloser look at the furring.
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loginfuzzy cheeks!!!
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loginthe old man was helping for most of the sculpting process... hes getting sleepy. such a winning smile. =P lol Cubby is the toothless wonder!
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loginprimed and sanded, and fiddling with the eyes.
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logindecided i wanted to do more blendwork in the eyes than i needed, since Haku has emerald eyes, but i wanted to tie in the aqua fur some more so did a blend from emerald to aqua to blue.
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loginthe eyelashes came out a bit more feminine but i liked them too much to tone them down. =P
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loginbelly was done in a blend of gray and violet, with a few smauglike details here and there in pearl.
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loginback fur was based in a pale blue gray.
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login and then drybrushed back up to white and detailed in bright white and pearl. (and the horns were painted a blend of golden pearl to white pearl tips)
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loginlegs were painted in a slightly more pink blend than the belly. decided against doing toes and banding the entire legs eagle style, so i improvised and met it half way.
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loginby doing a strip down the fronts in the banding pattern. (and nose and gray blaze were added and inner ears pinked.)
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loginand a break for the bestest ramen ever. (and disappointing tea... turns out rosehip tea tastes like peach tea, with an unfortunate cough syrup aftertaste.)
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logini knew when i started i was gonna make him fully 'brushable', at first i wanted to use fur, but couldnt find any in the right color, so i went with plan B. feathers. tho of COURSE i couldnt find enough aqua feathers at a reasonable price for the job, so i adapted a feather boa that was pretty close to the color i needed, if a touch too blue. to keep it from becoming a giant mess during the gluing process, using a fistful of tiny clamps and an armada of bobbypins, i basically "combed" a part down the entire length and soaked the core of the boa with tacky glue, and let it dry. that way all the fluffyness was going mostly one direction and wouldnt twist on me later when i went to glue it in. a section at a time, it was wedged into the channel id left open in the sculptwork and anchored with e6000.
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loginonce it had dried he was ridiculously floofy, so he had a few trims. it looked like id murdered a flock of bluebirds in my apartment when i was done. my vacuum cleaner earned its keep that week.
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loginbelly and signature. =P
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loginand finally, you almost got a kitty as an extra. Enderman loves boxes, mostly chewing and shredding them. i had my hands full keeping this one out of his reach.
amusing anecdote: he was DETERMINED to get at that boa when i was working on gluing the core. it got pulled onto the floor three times when i was making my ramen, he got 4 time outs, and when it was finally dry enough to store it (id prepped the boa when i was waiting for some of the sculpting to set up so it was ready weeks early) i rolled it up and put it in my craft tower under my desk... then he taught himself how to open the drawers on it. had to shuck him out of my supplies twice and he just kept goin at it haha he was so proud of himself for learning a new trick. joke was on him tho, i moved it into one of the lower 3 drawers, which can be pulled out like the others, but latch shut. so he was super frustrated that he could see it but not touch it.
my toe got bitten in a fit of kitten rage.
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