Someone Asked For A Version Of My Buckled Hatchwork Bracelet, But Sized As A Collar. So Here It Is!

Someone asked for a version of my buckled hatchwork bracelet, but sized as a collar. So here it is!

Thanks for the garbage website.

I was trying to upload a little video but every time it bugged out with “Oh no! Something went wrong! Could you upload your video again?” until it gave me this.

So here watch it on my twitter instead: https://twitter.com/armored_dragon/status/1080514988257787905

Tested out some new gold leather dye on a codpiece! I like it! Though it’s a little bit hard to get totally smooth and consistent, it tends to show the brush marks from applying it to the leather.

Apparently I should put more energy into codpieces, they were my best-selling item in 2018. I need to think of new design ideas that I like.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/236154791/overlapping-plates-codpiece

My contribution to @magicmeatmarch this year! It’s a set of armor fit for a light and swift fighter. It protects the important parts while avoiding restrictions on mobility.

I’d been wanting to make a larger breatplate-type item for a while, this felt like a good excuse. I went with the overlapping plates motif that I’ve used in a number of other projects. It’s secured in place with Too Many Buckles along the sides. When it’s all tightened up it has a bit of a corset nature, straightening up your posture. Made it a bit tricky to do the over-the-top twisting-to-show-off-tits-and-butt poses. But I persevered.

The codpiece, bracers and cuisses were older designs, but it’s always good to fit them into matching outfits.

LOOK UPON MY LASERS, YE MIGHTY, AND DESPAIR.

So last Thursday I got a call in the middle of the day from the vendor coordinator at Arisia. I’d been wait-listed back in the fall, I may have mentioned previously. They’d had someone cancel, though, and would I like to take the table on a week’s notice?

So that’s been my week basically. I used up the leather I’d had on hand very quickly, though I was able to squeeze way more masks than I’d expected out of my scrap pile. Today a fresh hide of leather finally arrived, and this pile is what I’ve cut out of it so far.

Half a day on the laser cutter. If I didn’t have this thing, there’s no way I would be able to get this sort of volume made in time. Sometimes that just hits me hard. Next is staining and forming them up, so we’ll see how quick I can get that done.

Some variants on my black cat mask. The bloody tears one I painted before Halloween, at the same time as I did that bird mask from earlier. The silvery red one has been sitting in my box of stock for a while, it was mostly a test of this pearlescent dye additive I got.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/158428025/black-cat-mask