I Made A COVID Vaccination Tag In The Style Of Rabies Vaccine Dog Tags. An Easy And Fun Alternative To

I made a COVID vaccination tag in the style of rabies vaccine dog tags. An easy and fun alternative to carrying around that slip of paper!

Originally inspired by this piece of furry art, though I’ve seen the general idea float around in other forms. 

(It’s dated in the future because I just got my first dose last week, so I used the date for my second appointment.)

The paladin is a noble warrior. His blessed armor protects him from harm, and his holy vows help him resist the temptations of sin. Those who receive his aid in battle are assured of victory, but those who meet him afterwards consider themselves the truly lucky.

I made this suit of armor for the Magic Meat March challenge (delayed to May this year), which is about putting men into the sorts of costumes that fantasy women get drawn in. Check out other people’s stuff over @magicmeatmarch​!

In place of a standard breastplate, this one is built in the form of a corset, providing protection and support while shaping and accentuating your profile. The pauldrons connect to the codpiece with a harness arrangement of straps, tying them together into one cohesive piece, supporting the necessaries and accentuating the assets. The greaves stand on their own.

I made everything by hand--cut, burnished, tooled, shaped, dyed, painted, sealed, and riveted together. The corset-breastplate and codpiece I designed from scratch--you can see a progression of the corset design here. The pauldrons (shoulders) and greaves (shins) I built from patterns by Prince Armory, partly because of time constraints, and partly because I wanted to see how other designers dealt with those pieces. (The greaves I was really impressed by, the pauldrons restrict movement more than I’d like, which was a problem I hadn’t been able to solve previously either.)

This is the most ambitious armor project I’ve tackled so far, both in scope and design, and I’m really pleased with how it turned out! I’m looking forward to making a few more pieces to go with this set in the coming months.

I’ve found it’s surprisingly tricky to get non-awkward photos of bracelets being worn. Oh well, you gotta suffer through me hand modeling for myself.

A couple more Pride bracelets I made for folks recently. The scale ones are a classic, and I’m slowly working my way through more pride flag combinations on those. The ring one (Japanese 6-in-1 pattern) was partially an excuse to try out some new gray rubber rings. I was pretty happy with the double-sided idea there; it can be worn showing either the white or gray rings as the background.

The scale ones are available here. The stretchy ring one isn’t a standard option, but you could get a similar one here and just tell me other colors to make it with.

And! In celebration of Anthro New England’s virtual convention this weekend, everything on my Etsy store is on sale for 20% off this weekend! If you’ve been eyeing something, now’s the time to jump on it!

Mask interior appreciation post, full hood edition.

I don’t usually take Nice product photos of the interiors of my masks, but I think they’re fun to see anyway. Some of them reveal some of the little compromises that you end up with when designing stuff, some give clues to my process if you look carefully.

Could you see yourself inside one of these? Can you tell what they are from this view? (answers in tags)

Hell yeah Magic Meat March May! Go give them a follow, maybe even draw your own sexy empowered fantasy men!

I’ll be working on a set of paladin armor. I got the main corset breastplate done during March, and this month I’ll be making the smaller parts like pauldrons, greaves, codpiece, and so on.

Magic Meat May is here!

The promotional illustration for this year’s event is still taking me a while, but i will be contributing more content this month for this event! Feel free to use the hashtag #MagicMeatMay, enjoy!

Everything about Magic Meat March can still be found in our carrd here, and if you have any questions or concerns, our ask box and DMs on twitter are always open.

A bit outside my normal genre, but I was really happy with this. It was largely a test of process--sculpting the leather onto a positive formwork, which lets you really stretch the leather around the features. I'm also always a fan of projects that show off imperfections in the leather, like the scars on the surface of the upper portion, and the natural edge of the hide.

It's got minimal holes for vision and breathing. I almost left this one without any holes for eyes, because it fit so snugly on my face and it was a really interesting sensation. My facial hair sorta pushes it away from my nose, but when it's worn tightly the nostril breathing holes line up pretty well.

4 oz vegetable-tanned leather, wet-formed and sewn by hand. The upper part is dyed brown and finished with a matte clear coat, the lower part is painted gold. 

It is available on my Etsy shop! And for the next 5 hours everything there is still on sale for 20% off!