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Hello! This is the catch all tumblr page for the nerdy duo Otterly Chrys and Foxy Zilla. 🩷❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 Page is run as a side-blog by @otterly-chrys

[fox-and-otter]

Hello! I am Otterly Chrys (they/them) and I run Fox & Otter Creations with my wife Foxy Zilla (she/her)

You will find a lot of things on this blog including...

🪡 sewn art & cosplay

🎲 Dungeons & Dragons

🎮 video games

🎨 visual art

🤍 I will put our common tags below 🖤

[kyri45]

Pride Sticker Collection by @Kyri45

Here’s my absolute best-seller coming back ONLY for the month of June!!

[rosieandthemoon]

Victorian Needle Case, by W Avery & Sons

[barksbog]

I have three sewing patterns up in the shop now!!

my original little toads, a small version of my slugs and an updated version of the Stag pattern!

barks-bog.com

[happypenguinart]

Floral Rainbow Snowflake by pinkythepink

[kellys-cross-stitch]

This is stunning!!

[archerinventive]

Happy Makers Monday!

**FOR SALE**

Fantasy fashion isn't just for faire. So, to help bridge the gap, starting today, I'll be adding purses to the shop!

In addition, all future pouches will be made with additional attachment rings for easy shoulder-strap mounting. :)

A huge thank you to all of you for your input over the last few years. I really appreciate your insight and support. ❤️

Stay tuned for two more purse designs going up on the shop this week.

*No AI was used in the making of these images. What you see is what you get.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArcherInventive

[claypigeonpottery]

don't mind me, I'm going to ramble a little about decorating plates (with pictures lol)

one of the things I really enjoy about decorating plates is that the rim of the plate is the perfect place to put some kind of framing

(all pieces in this post are sold)

I don't always frame the images, sometimes leaving it uncarved is the best way to accent the central image

or I'll simply continue the design out over the rim of the plate

the rest I'm going to put under the cut lol

it took me awhile to get used to considering and planning out the rim of a piece while I was sketching. oftentimes I would forget about it, and once I was finished carving the central image I’d suddenly realize the piece needed a frame to feel complete. sometimes it just doesn’t look right without something on the rim! this piece definitely falls into that category.

once it was carved it just felt too open without a frame

I really like decorating the rim with little things that relate to the subject of the piece. it might be my favourite kind of framing

(the violets relate to the pigeons because the sapphic flag is pink with violets, and this is a portrait of my pigeons, who are lesbians lol)

sometimes the framing design escapes the confines of the rim lol, despite my plans. the gum blossoms just really wanted more space in this thylacine piece

framing a design works on tiles too of course, but the raised rim is more fun imo

(both of the above tiles are from pretty early on in my sgraffito experiments, so the photos are unfortunately very bad 😬 I hadn't yet learned to take nice pictures)

sometimes a frame can act a bit like a stylized background for the subject, like these trees

or a more distant set of trees to indicate a forest

or I can use the rim's design more like a closer look at the environment around the subject, their immediate surroundings; the rabbits surrounded by thorns, the jackdaw surrounded by juniper

it's also interesting to bring the carving of the background of the piece out onto the rim when it’s a different colour, like in the (above) jackdaw plate, and the (below) red winged blackbird plate. it can show the subtle background carving in a more visible way and kind of tie the design together

sometimes a simple directional pattern is the way to go. I did this a lot in 2023 especially for some reason?

I've really grown to love carving imperfect patterns, and I find it relaxing to just kind of go with it and not worry about perfect spacing or lines

it’s really an exercise in frustration to try to make a pattern exact when it’s being carved on a hand built piece of pottery that is already an imperfect shape.

I’ve never been particularly intent on being exact with my art tbh (though I do admire that quality in other artists)

I am happy with a more relaxed method lol

this one below was done really roughly and I enjoy the way some of the underglaze remained after I scratched most of it off. it follows the shape of the piece really nicely, because I let my carving tool just followed the shape of the rim without much guidance from my hand lol

sometimes I experiment with using glaze to add a little something to the rims

and sometimes, the frame is just the perfect place to put a few words

but I'd never really used framing much in my art before I started making plates! so it's been a bit of a learning experience. I've enjoyed experimenting with new ways to decorate the rims of plates. some of them don't work out lol, but that's just the nature of making art

[fox-and-otter]

Phoenix Cross Dice Bag

this was a Christmas present for the commissioner's son so ai couldn't post if for a while... and then ai forgot. one of the things I'm going to try to be better about this year is sharing what I'm making

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #Woodensday:

Kwakwaka'wakw artist Baleen Whale Mask, 19th century Alert Bay, Cormorant Island, British Columbia, Canada Cedarwood, pigment, hide, cotton cord, metal nails From Brooklyn Museum’s “Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas” exhibition

[arthistoryanimalia]

Resharing for #WorldWhaleDay 🐳

[fox-and-otter]

latest (and possibly last) hat comission!

as i no longer have local acess to fleece i have taken down my listings for custom hats and kigus :/ but i had so much fun with this one! what a way to go 👹

[great-and-small]

The group chat officially deemed me an “eccentric” just because I’m doing an Argonian ichthyologist play-through of Skyrim rn where my character is writing a thesis on Cyrodilic Spadetails and I shared the character’s hypothetical research folder that I created to help with my immersion in the role.

Like sorry I take the RP in RPG seriously but how else would I get into the headspace of a character who is only slaying dragons to sell their bones and fund research that will hopefully be published in the Tamriel Journal of Limnetic Science??

[rikkidoescosplay]

There's nothing like the bond between a girl and her emotional support frog 🐸

Brought v1 of Melinoe to ALA! I was hella crunching in the lead up to the con and ended up not finishing ;_; But I'm glad I was able to finish enough to have some wearable and recognizable!

I've been posting a bunch of ~craft w/ me~ style videos of this build on my Instagram, and I'll share them here later!

I went to the Hades meetup and it was neat to see just how many other Mel's there were LOL glad to know that others love my babygirl as much as I do :3

Also frinos was the true star of the show that day, so I'm glad I decided to bring him along~

[augustdementhe]

IT'S GLASS.

This is "Arras", by Mark Lewanski, and the medium is G L A S S.

Just incredible.

[someemochick]

[fishingscam]

op didn’t add a link so here’s a link to his patreon where all of his minis are free to download please support him if you can

[marlynnofmany]

I would absolutely download a dragon, and I’ve already shared this with my D&D group. We’re gonna have some adventures! Thank you to everyone who made this possible!

[sufficientlylargen]

This is leaving out the best part of his patreon, which is that he’s been doing polls for “silly models” to create for years, bringing us such wonders as the Baba Yaga Taco Truck, the Horse Head, Goostarian (Goose Astarion), a Pirate Ship Mimic, the Honkdra, and Definitely The Five-Headed Dragon God Tiamat And Not Five Wyrmlings In A Trenchcoat

[aeshnacyanea2000]

@elodieunderglass the Honkdra

[elodieunderglass]

I’m very fond of that Honkdra!

[embroiderycrafts]

[embroiderycrafts]

[stardustcleaningguy]

illustration i did for my uni project !!