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Ground-free felids series, 1/6, tiger.

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Ground-free felids series, 2/6, mountain lion.

bonus: playing with textures and layer modes

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So. I saw someone try to make and post 100 soups last year, and so now I'm trying to make 100 small clay creatures this year (year of the horse. Started at the end of february. I'm not that late. The festivities haven't even ended yet! - as of writing this post, not the publication date) But I'm doing a series of lino-like digital drawings (planning to try actual lino later this year, so wanted to make a couple mockups first) and I thought: why not make a hundred animal drawings too. Surely when making an organized attempt at 100 of the same thing in a specific timeframe for the first time ever, making two at the same time won't backfire. I have plenty of time.

So. Here it is. 100 animal drawings, 1 to 5: lino mockups, fast animals. (all 100 won't be lino mockups because I think I'd get bored out of my mind)

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horses! I was preparing for next year being the year of the horse and felt like drawing some.

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groundfree felids 3/6, jaguar

wips under the cut:

sketch:

Started on the markings, refined shape:

Got bored drawing the markings. Worked on the baskground so I felt like I was still working on this; also more contrast is always better:

This was supposed to be the final version but I've been told it lacked legibility (only the head/neck/front paws changed):

this was also supposed to be the final version but I played around with textures in the meantime:

final version!

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Did some 3D printing of my mountain people series. It was... not without challenges but I did get printed figures out of it in the end.

I am planning on making a blog post about the whole process. At some point. Later. Prooobably in the summer.

Two quick pieces of advice though: - if you make your own 3D files to print: make that shit thicker. No, thicker than that. Again. That was maybe half of my issues. - and I personally really like the fuzzy skin option (in slicing softwares). It makes the filament not be straight but move in random-ish patterns on outer surfaces, which makes it more matte and helps hide the printing lines.

Bonus pics of gratuitous creepy vibes (unintended) and cloven neat in half character (unintended too).

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revamped my Mountain People series, with added stuff to ground them in their world, a little sun-context-silhouette, and a better texture (procedurally generated! I get an infinite amount of subtly different ones!). 1-3 / 12 (more here)