Before I get to the meat of this...
HEY MODS! I could have sworn I'd posted a wip thread for this one already. It would have been quite a while back. But either it got lost to the sands of time or my thinking I did, is merely a phantom memory.
I did do a search and go through my own posts list. But if it turns out one already exists can you please delete the gray haired, old one.
Moving forward,
This guy has been sitting for years now waiting to have his sculpting completed. But his ding dang tail was giving me so much trouble that I shelved him in disgust. Every several months or so I'd take him down only to have the same problem. And back to the shelf he'd go. Now he has a renewed purpose. A very special, kind and understanding Arena member will be getting this guy once he's completed.
Sorry guys, you'll have to put up with a phone photo.
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loginTail is complete. Well, I should say that the tail "ploom" is complete. I think I'll add some at the base. Hide the seam more.
Now if you'll excuse me, there's a pumpkin muffin sitting on my desk making very sexy, very suggestive motions at me.
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The last couple months have been both rough S-to-the-O-to-the-Bs and very enlightening.
Couple things happened.
One: fought and failed countless times with the crown sculpt, that I had to shelve the thing for several nights. You see that in the end it came through. But it was many a morning peeling off a failed sculpt. Even toyed with the idea of moving the crown to the horn. But then the entire narrative would have changed.
Two: In the down time I decided it was time to overcome a long time art fear. Painting!
Ever since I was an annoying tween I've wanted to paint. Had many false starts and failures. Then just gave up and went all digital for decades. Fast forward to 2011 and a husband with a priceless "thanks for having my first child for me, so I didn't have to" push-present. A week long oil painting lesson, focusing on the dutch/flemish technique. Oh Mutha of Gawd, it was just what I needed! It was also three years ago.
After the class, fear set in and I didn't do anything for years. But at least a direction had been learned. And HP and MP had been leveled up enough that no F's were there to be given and I jumped off my fear cliff. Started practicing and learning. And finally made one small finished painting! I can't tell you how over the moon I was. Never mind, how wonky it is. It exists and that's all that matters! You can see some practice paintings and the wonky finished painting on Ello:
https://ello.co/tamisery or on FB. FB link is in the sig.
Three: the entire month of December we spent on the sofa sick as a dizog! Well almost the entire month. Starting Dec 14th I caught a cold, the cold turned into Strep, the Strep turned into the Flu, Flu then turned into Bronchitis! All back to mo-fudging back! Not a single "well day" in between. I've never experienced anything like it. You can't get any more down with the sickness than that! Finally, my health came back in early January.
But thanks to all that I'm in some medical bill trouble. So I might sell another custom or possibly host a custom commission raffle in a couple months. I just gotta learn how to handle it.
And Four: The toddler broke his finer last Thursday while spending the day with a nanny and poppy. I was really hoping he'd be around 6 or more when he broke his first bone. We weren't there, but poppy says he had dropped a ten pound weight on his hand or he was trying to roll it like a wheel and it tipped over, onto his hand. He was trooper in the ER. Making it a point to tell all the nurses "Wook, I have a bandage! I better now, BYE!" as we left. There's a pic of him on FB.
So there you go, all caught up.
Here as a thank you for reading have some pony pics.
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loginI'm finally back at this thang. It's been a whirlwind lately. Consisting of two gallery group shows and a freelance gig that threatened to never end. The gig went on for so long I had to turn down one gallery group. Was mad upset at that. The theme was a Studio Ghibli tribute. Gawd that would have been fun.
And I still have more freelance work to do, but my Wacom up and died. So now I can turn back to horsin around, guilt free. Aside from the guilt of this piece taking so long.
But I'm here to prove that I am working on it!
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loginEye color suggestion please. I kinda, sorta, have an idea... but not really.
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loginOk, Here's four options I'm kicking around.
1. Indigo / Periwinkle. Which might be too generic as blues are the go to for unicorn eyes.
2. Chartreuse. Does complete a color triad, (coral, slate blues, chartreuse)
3. Same Coral color as horn.
4. Silver. Which might be too monochromatic.
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loginThanks for the input guys! Chartreuse it is.
So, here we're about.... I'd say maybe 83% done. I've got a lot of "hair into flat body blending" to do. I've started the foundation colors of the eyes. um... Gotta do some "channel flooding" and I gotta fix the tail. The tail fell from it's drying perch the other day and a lock I really liked, broke off.
So I guess I'm only 76% done.
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loginAnd we are done! Someone asked what his story was. Quite simple. He is a king's property. Good night!
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loginSpent a good part of the day photo shooting. Got probably around 300+ pics.
Here's a few. To see more hit up the ol' blog. Click the signature banner for my folio site. The blog is just another click away.
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