Biyomon Foam Work (99% Done)

Well as complete as it will be for now.  There still needs to be a little bit of tweeking (mostly on the inside of the mouth so the fleece will fit smoothly).  Maybe minor tweeks on the outside of the beak too to smooth out bumps.   But the full structure is now done.  Aside from the feather on her forehead which will have wire as the main structure so I can get the curl.

Next step is putting together the structure for the body suit while I save for the material to fill this out (the fur and fleece).

Biyomon Head WIPs

Spent some time today trying to fix up previous details such as the eyes and beak as well as add in more details to this.

I'd had the head shaped out for a few weeks now and hadn't touch this much because I felt a little stuck.  Especially with how to do Biyomon's largest feathers on her head.  Finally I figured out how I could do them so I tried it out.  Took a bit of pinning at first, but once I got it all in place and glued it down it actually looked decent. 

Also took some time and rounded out her cheeks.  Since she has a static jaw, I can do a lot with her expression so eventually I'm gonna go back, add in more foam and shape it so she has a bit of a smile at least.  Biyomon's such a cute character that it probably wouldn't be right if she didn't have a smile.

The beak still needs quite a bit of work anyways.  At least on the left side of it.  The right side is much smoother and looks better than the left.  But aside from that and the smile, the next part is smoothing out the top of the head, fixing parts of the eyes (still) and adding in the four other feathers.  Also still smoothing the inside of the beak and making sure the foam there is tightly glued together.

Mini Husky Tail

Sewing practice.  I have plenty of fur and fur scraps left over from various other projects so I decided to try to make a tail. 

I'm not all that happy with it.  But it was nice sewing practice.  Next time I do the belt loop I won't be using that style.  Not to mention the tail turned out too small and I'm not happy with the purple and white heart marking.  That looked better in my head than it turned out sadly.

But it was just practice so it's fine.  I'll be better at it in my next projects.

Feline Tail Designs and Sewn Tail 1

I don't know how to sew much other than tails so knowing how popular they are in the anime and furry fandoms, I figured that 1) I'd attempt to design some eye catching tail designs and 2) see if I could sew these detailed designs. I did upload them elsewhere for feedback and got some interesting feedback on what people would find interesting or not. So I ended up narrowing down the list from here. While natural animal designs will probably sell better if I wanted to sell tails in bulk. But in general I like these "sparkle"/rave designed critters. So some of them I'm making for myself.

Like that first one on the line up. Finished up that tail today. Underestimated how long it would take to sew and how "annoying" cutting and sewing small spots and stripes could be, but it was still fun and I'm pretty happy with how it looks. The shape could be a bit better but with my next tail I can get the shape down better. It's curved a bit much at the top but the rest of the tail looks fine.

Once I get some lime green fur, I'll end up sewing number 2 on that line up, the even more detailed tiger tail. Though considering I still have some rust, cream, white, and black fur, I might end up making tail number 9. And will the amount of yellow fur I still have, I might make one of number 6 (though I'm holding off on using too much yellow until I finish the digitigrade legs for my Kyuubimon 3/4 partial suit).

Sombra Mask- Complete

Haven't uploaded anything to here in a while, but figured I might upload some stuff I've drawn up/made over the past few...months.

Well, finished up my first partial fursuit. So far I've only got a few photos of the mask. Once I find the cable for the digital camera, I'll take some photos of me wearing it. Mask, hand-paws, and tail. I took these with my webcam while I was at Midwest Furfest.

I'm pretty happy with the finished product. For a first attempt at it, it turned out much better than I thought it would be. Especially the shaving of the fur on the face. And I learned a lot of stuff about sewing and made my mistakes here so hopefully with my next one there'll be even fewer sewing mishaps.

The mask fits fairly tightly though. It's built on a balaclava base which is nice because it's comfortable. However I think I like all foam bases better and that's what my next mask is going to be built on. Plus the all foam base allows for a more sensitive moving jaw.

Kyuubimon Cosplay Plot- Head Sketches

Some quick sketches I did during class today. Didn't have a fox ref in front of me but I did enough to just plot out how I want my next cosplay to come out.

As soon as I finish up my costumes of Sombra and Excalibur, this is going to be one of my next projects (the other being a Corded Poodle suit).

Kyuubimon has to be one of my favorite digimon. And one of the other reasons why I wanted to start making fursuits. She's gorgeous and I've never seen a costume of her. Renamon I've seen many costumes of. But Kyuubimon would prove to be a challenge indeed.

I'm gonna go for a more realistic looking suit with this one. Want to get taxidermy eyes, nose, and jaw. Wouldn't be able to see out those eyes of course but I'd put mesh in the tear ducts to see out of. Would use both faux fur and hair extensions for her mane. Might put my own spin on it and give her a more "tribal" look with braids and beading. Only a little bit.

That's what I've got for now. Other than it would be a full fursuit instead of a partial one. The 9 tails would prove to be difficult as well...that I'm sure of.

Sombra Fursuit WIP- Foam base finished

Got all the foam work done for my Sombra fursuit. Everything's basically perfect. I trimmed the ears down a bit from these pictures. Might have to trim down one ear tip a little bit more and smooth out the foam for the division between the eyes. But pretty much this is ready for furring. Don't know how I'm gonna do her nose just yet. I'll figure it out eventually. I'm just happy this works right. The jaw movement is pretty much perfect. I can see out it (that's a...pretty important detail...still wish I could wear my glasses under this though). I wanna make a little video maybe showing the jaw movement.

Anyways, next step for this would be to buy the three colors I need and some mesh for the eyes. Found the perfect shade of red for her main fur and I just need to order that from CR's Craft's site.

Sombra Fursuit WIP- Mask Construction

There still has to be a good amount of work done on the foam alone before I can start putting fur on her. Especially with the ears and I have to do some tweaking around the eyes. At least making sure the shape of the eyes are nice and toony.

Hoping to have the partial suit done by time for Midwest FurFest this year. Right now my Excalibur cosplay is the first priority. I need to start putting the fleece on the head. I at least want to finish the head before this break is over with.

Sombra Fursuit Sketches

Planning on making a partial fursuit of my fursona, Sombra. I don't want to jump into making a full suit right away so I just want to make a head, hand-paws, tail, and digitigrade legs and then I'll just wear regular clothes. I think I'll just start this over the Christmas break. I'll get more foam, a balaclava, and some elastic so I can at least form the base of it. It'll be my first try with a working jaw, second try making a fursuit head, but it'll be fun.

I sketched out an idea for a corded poodle suit, but I'll scan that in later.

Excalibur Cosplay WIP

So this is my first attempt at making a cosplay outfit on my own. I made one of Yoh Asakura from Shaman King (or rather attempted to), however I made it in a sewing class and the teacher made most of it.

For anyone who isn't familiar with Excalibur, he's a strange, annoying character from Soul Eater. No one knows what he is but the he takes on the form of a weapon. Just guess which one that is...okay...it's blatantly obvious that he changes to the legendary sword Excalibur. But for his regular form he's some weird penguin, anteater, anthro...thing.

In order to really make this look like him though, I have to buy some fleece and make a top hat. ^^; I want to finish the head at least over Christmas break.