Why Even Have Friends If They're Not Gonna Photobomb Your Products.

Why even have friends if they're not gonna photobomb your products.

Realized I still had more photos to go through from that shoot in the fall. Here's a fox mask with big huge ears.

Aaaaand I updated the listing on Etsy!

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.

Aaaand updated photos of my jackal mask!

I feel silly for forgetting to make people other than my boyfriend wear it for product photos. But that’s fine, he looks good in it.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/212168040/jackal-mask

Only a few more things to post and then I’ll finally be done with the photos from that October photo shoot!

Did I post these photos yet? I don’t think so?

Swirling Wisps mask, one of my older designs.

Leather dragon costume! Matching set of head and tail! I’m very excited, this project was many months in the making. 

Aesthetically I was aiming for something sort of halfway in between a fursuit and kink gear. I think the black leather and rivets pull the image pretty strongly towards the latter, giving it a sleek and somewhat sinister vibe.

It’s a hollow shell, not built on a resin or foam base. The leather used is a somewhat firm but flexible chrome re-tanned one, with a very clean semi-glossy finish.

The head has enough space to be worn over glasses! You can see mine in some of the photos. The eyes are clear acrylic, giving a pretty good unobstructed field of vision. The horns are birch plywood laminated together into a solid form. The head opens in the back and laces closed with nylon paracord. The tail is stuffed with poly-fill, and held on with a pair of belt loops.

I designed everything in 3D in Rhino. Because the pieces were pretty big I actually hand-cut all the leather pieces rather than laser-cutting them as I often do. (The plywood for the horns was laser-cut.) You can see some of that process here.

And of utmost importance, this is up for sale! Here’s the Etsy link! If it sells I’ll get to make a new one and try out more new ideas!

I'm at Arisia! Got me two tables filled up nicely with leather masks and armor and jewelry! Hooray for getting enough stuff produced to have a respectable booth, even though I only had a week's notice!