You Thought It Was Just A Regular Leather Collar. Then You Felt It Start To Drip, Melting Down Your Neck,

You thought it was just a regular leather collar. Then you felt it start to drip, melting down your neck, becoming something very different. How far will it go? Will you be able to get it off when it's done? Will you want to?

This idea had been lodged in my brain for months, of a collar turning liquid and spreading down your neck. A trope I see all the time in furry art, and I thought needed to be made physical. (Though I’m not sure if this trope exists literally anywhere else.)

Made of two layers of 8 oz vegetable-tanned leather. Leather is cut with a laser cutter, then dyed, burnished, finished, and riveted together by hand. I burnished the edges super smooth and gave it a high-gloss finish to complete the look.

It’s available over on my Etsy store. And if you’d like this in another color, please hit me up! I’m excited to make more copies of this design.

Catching up on posting some jewelry I made recently. We’ve got:

Scale bracelet in stainless steel

Cuff bracelet in stainless steel and stretchy black rubber rings.

Leather barrettes.

A very green dragon tail. The base color is the standard green, the stripes are a darker shiny/premium anodized aluminum.

This one measures in at 35 inches long, 3 pounds 6 oz. It’s got a lobster clasp at the tip for attaching things to.

Here’s a quick pile of some of the masks I’ve got on hand, to show off for Virtual Anthro New England weekend. It’s sad that I can’t be meeting people in the dealers room and sharing my stuff in person, but photos are OK too.

These masks are all on sale  for 20% off through tomorrow over on my Etsy, along with everything else on the shop!

Also, the convention put together a really cool Minecraft version of the hotel and surrounding areas of Boston, you should totally check it out.

Here's a bunch of progress shots showing the development of this wolf skull mask. (Final images here.)

I started with a simple muzzle shape that I designed in Rhino, then drew the skull pattern to fit on it. Once I was happy with it I scanned that in and traced with vectors, and made some slight adjustments to the base muzzle shape, so I could then go and laser-cut the whole thing again. I dyed the base and painted the skull's cracks in with black dye, then sewed the base together and tacked the skull onto it to sculpt it.

Once everything was dry and set in its final shape, I painted the surface of the skull with a couple coats of white acrylic. Gave the whole thing a clear coat to seal it, and sewed the pieces together. The last line of stitches is hidden at the base of the teeth, so it follows a funky wavy path, which you can see on the interior shot. Last steps were putting the snaps on so it could attach to the straps.

Owl masks! I made the blue one as a gift for my boss's little kid, who is obsessed with owls. The tropical colored one was one I realized I'd made last time I was stocking up for a convention, and hadn't photographed yet.

This is one of my patterns that is made to fit with glasses! The base of the mask continues across the upper lip to provide structure, and the beak fits over the nose. The gap between the eyes means your glasses can rest on your nose like normal.

obligatory Etsy link