arts; & crafts !

[myarmcanfly]

Meowrimos

These tiny mossball kitties come from the same ponds and streams as koi dogs, and are often found rolling around with baby guppies. They may be small, but each one packs a big personality!

Some of these are already sold, but others will be part of a pondful of meowrimos at Anthrocon, July 3-5!

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

Traditional Chinese cloth tiger in Dragon Boat Festival style. It has the Five Poisons embroidered on it — it's a charm for health and protection, to keep away bad things. (cr 嘹爪嘞LYOZALLY)

[tierras]

passenger seat photo beaded curtain by noorann matties

[sticker-pop]

1990's Tamagotchi photo insert for ring binder

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

wooden rabbit sculpture by chinese artist 潮舒木雕

[angelicdewdrop]

[pngblog]

[unfamiliarsculptures]

What is your product photography set up like? Also, sorry if you’ve answered this before, but what’s your general process for creating a sculpture? I love your art and I’m planning on getting some on the 22nd!!!!

Thanks for the questions and I’m so happy to hear you’re excited for the next update!!

For my product photography set up, I have a homemade light box. I cut large windows into the sides of a cardboard box and covered the windows with thin quilt batting to diffuse the light and prevent harsh shadows. The white background is a piece of poster board. I placed it so it curves upward from the bottom to the top which makes it so there’s no distracting divide between the floor and background. Here’s a picture below. (It’s also several years old which is why it looks beat up, but it still works just fine)

As for my sculpting process, it really depends on the piece. Many small pieces start with just a ball of clay that I carefully pinch and pull in different directions to form the limbs, head, and tail. I then add on little details like ears, wings, and horns once I’ve smoothed and shaped the piece. Sometimes I also choose to add the tail on separately if it is a more delicate shape. And for larger sculptures I make a hollow egg shape for the body and sculpt the limbs, tail, and head separately. I then score and slip the parts where I want those pieces to connect with the body and smooth them together.

I hope that was helpful!

[myarmcanfly]

Fat Horse No. 1

It’s the year of the horse and I’ve always been a horse girl at heart, so I’m finally taking advantage of the excuse to fill the world with fat little horses! These felted friends are about the size (and shape!) of an apple, and if you happen to have any apples to share I’m sure they’d help you out!

This piece and four others will be available at Furry Weekend Atlanta May 8-10!

[titsay]

guardian of the forest

[hyydraworks]

They’re out of the kiln and I made a couple cups too 👀 🐙

[official-cephaloposts]

official cephalopod post

[my-dailydreams]

[athelind]

Beautiful and kind, check. Looks like butter, sure.

But let's not overlook the elegant engineering of the soap dish itself: that graceful stem is positioned to let water drain out of the dish, avoiding the issue of "soap soup" that most soap dishes accumulate.

[kittiescatlover]

Kitties dont relly have Breeds like doggies do but they have special types like Weird Baby, Angry Head, Sleeper Fatty, Yappy Meower, Orange, Sweetie Playful, and The Creep. If you collect them all, well. You will probably have too many kitties.

[b0nkcreat]

you can collect them like pokeymans

[kittiescatlover]

Wow this is actually a perfect drawing of some of the types of kitties. Thank you

[fuckyeahchinesefashion]

OP: Handmade Star Chair (cr Stellar Dream)

[florad0ra]

Fish bag sample for classes this spring/summer

[emmhauer]

[er-sasdfz]

he's going places!!

materials: polymer clay, black acrylic paint, sculpey gloss varnish, decoart triple thick varnish, neodynium magnets

this horse is designed as a two-part magnet (horse costume reference haha) hence the seam

process notes + commentary + additional unflatterering photo angles (lol) under the cut

these ^ are the design sketches btw. kind of astounded at how close i got w the final guy haha considering i did exactly none 3d sketching out of my design at any point. hashtag winging it. you can see that late march hidey did NOT yet understand the shape of a horse's head.

process notes in the order i thought of them and then wrote them out lol:

horse heads are unexpectedly just a lot of flat planes that intersect. i ended up making a second disembodied model horse head just to keep as a reference lmao so i ideally never have to re-derive a horse head from images again

luckily a horse gets a lot more recognizable with a mane lol. like truly that's a lifesaver. there is not a lot of distance, it turns out, between a dog head and a horse head, lmao. to me. i'm sure that's not true for many talented artists out there. but to me they are soooo close to each other its terrifying lol

eyes were holes with a dot tool + little black spheres of clay

made the whole thing first and then cut it in half and then put one magnet between the two halves to mark where they should meet. i tried really hard to cut straight down the middle but. i didn't. so then i had to add more clay to keep the "seam" in the middle less visible

learned that the demagnitization temp of neodynium is 179F. get fucked lol. but i left it with my entire stack of other magnets connected and it [sort of ] remagnetized. thank god. there is a message about the power of friendship here i think. he looks so fucking funny like this. some kind of hot dog horse.

mane: do it from the bottom up because that mimicks how gravity works! i scrapped like three versions where i went from the top down and it felt "not right" -- turns out that is bc i was opposing basic physics (and because i wasn't keeping the "large locks of hair" vibe i'd already introduced into the design with the bangs lol)

ears are just circles of clay shapped into ovals and then the middle divot is done w/ a needle tool (or toothpick for the model bc it was like, idk. 2 mm larger lmao)

the tail still looks weirdly like a rooster tail to me. maybe i should have taken it falling off during construction as a sign from the universe to remake it into one single piece... alas. that chicken has flown the coop (lol)

i really wanted the horse to look like its in motion (not in the least because the musculature of a standing horse is SO boring and also difficult lmao) but was having trouble maintaining the "it can stand up by itself" property until i remembered that i could cheat and have the front of the hoof of the bent leg touch the ground. then i was like omfg i can bend TWO of its legs!

i understand why horses are hard to animate now. lmao.

i struggled a LOT to translate this guy into my style ... most of my reference images were either much more realistic or much less realistic and that ... was hard. lol. but i'm really happy with how it turned out!!!!!!

two coats of varnish bc well. i hate every varnish i have rn but i already bought them. so. guess and check every time lol

its good i learned what direction horse hooves face from watching cdramas before i made this .... shoutout 卿卿日常 lol

anyway here are the other pics lol. i feel kinda meh abt the hooves but i did nottt trust myself to do an even line about the feet and i wanted uhhh. something to indicate that i did know abt that aspect of horse anatomy.