Just A Werewolf Mask Someone Bought Off Of My Etsy. Its Not My Favorite Of My Designs, But It Does Fit

Just a werewolf mask someone bought off of my Etsy. It’s not my favorite of my designs, but it does fit with glasses! While I was in laser-cutting it I also cut a new simple mask design that’s also made to fit with glasses like this one. I need to get some photos of it tomorrow.

The one thing that I always notice when doing these is that when the space between the eyeholes is removed, it ends up making the whole mask a lot trickier to form to shape. This one ended up needing to be re-moistened and adjusted because it dried a bit too splayed outwards.

I also realized that I’m sometimes inconsistent about how I form the ears. Oh well.

Finally put ears on this dog mask/pup hood! 

This was a prototype/first run at making a mask in this style, with snout in front and buckles in back. It worked out pretty well, and I think the buckle arrangement looks pretty clean. The snout and ears both detach with snaps, which felt like it was a good way to start thinking about modularity. And there’s enough room in the eye area that it fits on over my glasses, which I think is pretty cool. The snout is open at the bottom, which is pretty comfortable, but the snout is deep enough that it doesn’t really expose the chin very much. And the base structure should be able to support different types of snouts.

The only thing I’m a little bit skeptical of is the ears. I wanted to try a minimalist construction, and it seems to work with just 2 points of attachment (which pivot too, being snaps). But the shape is maintained by stress in the curved segment between the snaps, and I’ll have to see how that holds up when the ears get bonked. But if it does need some adjusting, they’re removable, so that’s easy.

The next mask I make with this structure I’m going to adjust how the straps attach to the mask. Here they’re just riveted directly to the mask. Next time I’ll attach D-rings to the mask and attach the straps to those. That’ll let them pivot around that point, rather than needing to be lined up to point in just the right direction. 

Mask was made by hand from 4 oz vegetable-tanned leather, stained black. I’ll finish it with neatsfoot oil, which’ll darken it up a bit more and make the surface a bit more supple. Rivets and snaps are nickel-plated steel.

Been cranking out these tassels for a dragon tail commission. But man they go slow. I’m averaging like 1.5 per episode of anime. 11 down, 4 more to go, and then I can finally start building this tail. I’m happy with the binding I worked out for these, but if I end up offering these as a standard option I’m really going to need to invest in crimping equipment.

Oh and once my paycheck and rent checks clear I’m making a custom order for large anodized titanium scales, so I’m excited about that. But that also means I need to dig out like 5 conversations that I kinda dropped out on where people had asked about titanium for tails, so that’s a pile of mental energy I’m going to have to dredge up in the next couple days. 

And I also need to head in to laser cut in the next few days. I need to cut a single mask. So really that means I need to figure out what other stuff I can productively cut so it’s not quite such a wasted trip. 

Crafting can be tiresome sometimes. It sometimes feels like I do nothing but fall behind and try to catch up. And man I’m tired of having cash-flow problems.

Since the last year has seen me have fairly unreliable access to a laser cutter, I’ve been a lot less motivated to design new leather things. Which has not been fun. But I did finally make a new mask! 

I’d call this a dark unicorn design. If you can identify what aesthetic I was emulating, you get exactly one (1) Internet Point, and we can go be trash together in the corner.

This was entirely hand-cut out of 4 oz vegetable-tanned leather. The horn has an iridescent blue acrylic paint on it, and the whole thing is sealed with a clear matte acrylic. I’ll translate this design into CAD so I can laser-cut future iterations, and I’ll probably tweak the horn a bit when I do that. But I’m pretty happy with the design as a whole! I’ll put it up for sale on my Etsy once I manage to get some photos of it being worn.

And the last dragon tail to upload today! It’s made primarily of blackened stainless steel. This one was a short one, only 24 inches long (though coming in at 3 lbs 2 oz, because steel is heavier than aluminum).

I think I need to edit the tip, though. The commissioner’s character had a specific pattern of blue on the tip. I didn’t want to use anodized aluminum there because it tends to get scratched by the steel. Also the commissioner wanted a light blue/teal, where the normal anodized aluminum blue is a deeper royal blue. So I suggested anodized titanium, which I had just enough of left over from a previous project. But the titanium turned out to have rather less contrast with the steel than I’d expected.

I had an idea for how to pad between the steel and the aluminum, so I think I’m going to build an alternate tip, see how it looks, check with the commissioner, and maybe swap it out.

On the upside, this may have been my fasted tail constructed ever. I started it after an early dinner yesterday, and I’d gotten it finished by about 1AM. The short size helped, of course, but man. This was the 5th tail I’d made in a month. I wonder if my speed has improved since the last time I carefully timed myself.

I made a couple more kinky pet rocks! The Y harness one I’d had sitting around for a while, and now it’s joined by one in a bulldog harness and one that’s fully-suited!

I dunno man. I just think these are a lot of fun to make. I should get some photos of them being held so the size is more obvious, then I’ll post them up for sale. I’ll think of more innuendo to slather the description with then.

I’ve still got a few more nice-looking rocks, maybe suggest some more ideas for costumes for pet rocks?