#project post

[caspianscrafts]

Warping up my next inkle loom project! It's going to be a rainbow belt. I'm hoping to auction some off at a Brisbane Pride Choir concert to raise money for our trip to Perth next year

Feat. my cat Freya

I made the pattern using this super useful tool!

The yarn is Flinders 8ply 100% cotton from Spotlight, except for the light green and blue, which have a little bit of sparkly nylon added

[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.

[clever-pennname]

Dabbled in some pixel art

[faraway-fr]

[somewhere-nowhere-elsewhere]

ㅤㅤㅤㅤHELLO ! my gorgeous friends,

it's been quite a bit since you all have last seen us. There have been a couple of changes, but nothing major.

❁ taKe this and considEr this a tEst of sorts, a small Preview of the "vibeS" we are waiting to give.

❁ there will be More, some of our frIends few have seen some of the future profiLes that are planned.

when wIll those come out?

in the Near future if all Goes according to plan.

That's all I have for you today, Lovelies.

- 🧶

[honeybakedhams]

i really like yarn that's balled liked this

it doesn't roll around as you pull and if you can find the string in the middle i think it just is a bit easier to pull from it then the outside. but beware for if you can't find that end of the string

your own doom will lie before you

[bjdadventures]

Time lapse of color + linework on Logan's TV head guy tattoo. This was fun to make! Definitely thinking I'll do more even just for my own benefit. It's cool to step back and see how it all came together. ☆CS☆