This Part Took The Longest As Was The Most Finicky Part, And It Still Is! The Blade Doesnt Slide Back

This part took the longest as was the most finicky part, and it still is! The blade doesn’t slide back in smoothly, something catches it inside. So I’ll need to find a way to fix that issue when sheathing the sword. I achieved the bark like texture with a combination of techniques. Thermal moldable plastic beads I bought on eBay, which I then shaped with my hands and squeezed to the plastic texture. My hands are rough from landscaping and weapon training, so it feels like bark. The veins add a nice touch as well. I achieved that blended mottled bark color with alcohol based markers, which blend nicely. I colored the plastic when it was cold, it’s natural color being white, then heated it back up with a heat gun to set the color into the plastic and not just on the surface. I added some fake leaves from flowered I took apart for another project, and boom. A somewhat realistic sapling with a hidden blade

I’d say this was the early stages BUT that’s a damn lie, this was after some weeks of progress. The jaw bones and teeth were added, the antlers were added, the mask was changed into a helm, the muzzle was extended, the cape was added, the mane/hair was added, and the artificial fixings were added (partially). It’s hard to see from these horrible angles, but the cape part is added to underside of the helm and to the back of the helm. The hair/mane was braided fabric strips with the leaves and feathers sewn to the braids, then attached to a jewelry wire “weft” and attached to the back of the skull with thermal plastic.

I’ve added a lot more leaves and such since those pics were taken, I also have more to add. I recently found this gorgeous moth wing cape on Etsy that goes with the theme, so I bought it. And I have a type of shirt/shawl thing I’m going to sew the cape to help keep it secured better when I wear it. I plan on going to events with this on, Halloween, renaissance fairs, cons, and the like. I want to make sure the helm doesn’t slide off

This is the finished creation (for now)

This is a colored sketch of the threadbare monk/priests robes, I added the red ribbon to kinda hint to where the red ribbon came from in his whip. And I added that little golden medallion he stole from the church, he had a few of them melted down to form the metal tip on his whip. He keeps the whip hidden inside the robes, wrapped around his waist. When he pulled it out the first time I described it like this to the party “he sensually tugs the strings keeping the chest portion of his tattered and threadbare robes loose with both hands, and pulls the fabric open. He slides his hand down the front of his robes, licking his lips he smiles a tusk filled grin. Fondling around in his robes he moans”- at this point the dm said a goblin was on a ledge over me getting ready to attack-“I pull my hand out quickly, with a flourish as a length of whip follows. I lash it upward”-mad an attack roll, 13 plus whatever the modifier was for a finesse weapon and rouges-“I snatch that little bastard and yank him down, CHEEKY! Interrupting my performance like that, now where are the bugbears and hobgoblins?! I dare say those men need my attention darling!” It was then that the dm told me that the goblin was dead and didn’t hear anything I said. I snatched him off a 30 foot ledge and he died when he hit the floor. Of course the party ignored my whole performance of taking out my whip, and no one asked why a monk/priest would even have a whip. No no no, they all asked how and why my whip was so long, clearly my talents were wasted on them

Ok so I am quite SHITE at like posting content of my materializing endeavors, and crafting binges. My inspiration usually strikes randomly, and I become engrossed in the process and thinking of creative ways around problems. Soooooooo this little guy was teased in my last unload dump, this mask was going to be a part of sword staff. However this mask is small and dinky and the material is super thin and brittle, when I would squeeze it I’d hear cracking sounds. Then again I have orc strength so the mask material might be ok but for me it wasn’t durable enough. The mask is also too small and the straps in the back weren’t the best for wearing it securely, and I plan on turning the mask into a helm with artificial leaves, feathers, and some flowers attached to the “hair/mane” with a sort of cape.

So the steps I didn’t record was basically the complete deconstruction process of that ugly little mask, the ugly small antlers had to go, they weren’t symmetrical. The color is also displeasing, I’m going for a more white sun-bleached bone look. With bigger more sturdy antlers and the back of the skull added, so the mask is a helm. I also wanted to add lower jaw bones and fill out the upper jaw as the mask didn’t have either, I had to outsource the upper and lower jaws with a mask I got from the Halloween section of a store. The plastic was just as shitty, so it was reinforced along with the rest of the mask. I used the same thermal plastic beads to sculpt and extend the jaw, reinforce the whole mask, and attach the jaws and teeth

This is a sketch of Grougo in the monks/priests threadbare hooded robe. I didn’t know what hairstyle he’d have, but since you can completely manipulate the hair length on vecnas scalp, almost any style is possible. So I went with the one I have in real life, shaved sides and the rest is long. I like longer eared orcs after I saw a pic of one, so that’s why his ears are longer than orcs ears usually are