QT3.14 Cyborg @kabegamichu - Tumblr Blog

Ants have the most badass lives of anything in the animal kingdom, life as an ant is like warhammer

Wake up in enormous underground cyberpunk metropolis

Venture outside with your ant buddies to forage scraps from an incomprehensible civilization of alien gods (each one several times larger than the city you've spent most of your life inside) for the glory of your GodMomEmpress

Get attacked by a platoon of soldiers from a rival megacity, they're an offshoot of your species except like twice as big (basically orks) and like 10% of them are genetically modified supersoldiers with wings

Luckily, you've been engineered from birth to spit acid so you and your antfriends successfully defeat the rival ants and their winged miniboss

Die from getting stuck on a jolly rancher

northirish

If you're not cracking open beers in the alley with me, I have to assume you're cracking open beers in the alley against me

nattousan

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

nattousan

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

nattousan

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

nattousan

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

nattousan

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

nattousan

Madam....

sleepyjim2

ⓘ Tip: while sewing, you can unlock scary sewing by losing your needle somewhere on your bed.

daftpatience

this messed up vintage cat sewing pattern has tormented me since i saw it & like some other folks have done in that post - i tried my hand at tweaking the pattern to resemble the illustration (and my personal tastes) a little more. i've ended up with this. i bestow it upon you nice folks now 👐

(update 2, added instructions & it's also on my Kofi!)

go forth and make weird little beanbag kittens! pls show me if you do!

daftpatience

Hi! This is a long shot, but you know that vintage cat sewing pattern you fixed and lots of people made cute cats with it? I tried it to make christmas presents with, but I dont understand how it works at all and I messed up pretty badly. I didnt know where to start and stop sewing and where to leave a space for stuffing so after 2 hours of work the top halves and the bottom of my kitty were all misaligned and i threw her out.

Do you have any guidance for like... a step by step process / a "start sewing here, stop here, line part a up with part b over here" or have seen something like it somewhere? I never have made plushies and I hand sew and it shows. I still would like to try to make a late gift for someone though.

Thanks

the tumblr post has a few variants so you may not have seen that in the end i made this rough walkthrough for it! if you have seen this and are still struggling i don't know if i can be of any more help 😭