#chess wip

[rafaelafranzen]

Chess WIP #2

Got a lot done for Chess this week! Made and installed the eyes on his skull and finally finished the tail I’ve been handsewing since early Feb. 

Videos of the follow-me eye effect of the skull and tail movement + assorted BTS shots available on my twitter!

[rafaelafranzen]

Chess WIP #1

A small bit of non-Kingsman business - I’m working on making a skullcat called Chess! They’ll be my first partial fursuit. 

My first step was getting cat skull mask from the amazingly talented @bueshang and pulling out all the amazing nuances of the skull with some weathering. A massive thank you to @krakenmagic whose workspace and skills I enlisted to help give Chess a facelift <3

Fur and bones will come together eventually, but this is a good start. I can’t stop looking at it, it’s so beautiful.

[moonshinemagpie]

I wanna apply the same energy to my sapphic romance book that Janelle Monae uncorked for her new album

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U.S. Women's Chess Champion Baraka Shabazz

from Jennifer Shahade's Chess Queens

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Georgian Chess Champion Nona Gaprindashvili playing 28 men simultaneously in the UK, 1965

from Jennifer Shahade's Chess Queens

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first woman chess Grandmaster Georgian Nona Gaprindashvili