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Why do I start ridiculous projects when I'm tired? Poor impulse control I guess.

Possibly to be a shoe thing that'll force you to stand on your toes. I’ve probably been looking at too many pony play blogs on twitter while trying to find other people making cool masks.

I have no idea if it'll work. When I’m less busy (haha good joke) I’ll pull a pattern off it and make it out of something sturdy and find out. If it even marginally works I’ll probably end up figuring out how to make hooves for it.

Hooray for cobbling (ha!) together some shoes.

Found some more plague doctor hood photos I’d forgotten to post.

This design is one of the more complex ones I’ve done, in terms of number of pieces that have to attach together in specific ways. I think it all came together pretty well though. The ear covers with the holes, the extra rings around the eyes to cover all the edges that converge there and cleanly inset the lenses, the grommets for just a bit of extra detail in the beak. And the shape is adjusted to give enough space to wear glasses underneath, which I was particularly happy with.

This mask is still available! Here it is on my Etsy shop.

Radical. Totally tubular. Out of this world. Anachronistic. Part of a complete breakfast. Transmogrified. Taken off the air for causing seizures. Super soaked. Released with a full line of action figures. 

Yes I made a vaporwave pup play muzzle with the Jazz/Dixie cup swoosh design. I did it because once the idea came to me, I physically could not prevent myself from manifesting it into reality. (And because my favorite thing is mixing genres and aesthetics that were never meant to go together.)

Would you like to adopt this pup? Favorite hobbies include cosmic bowling, Blockbuster and chill, and chewing on your drinking straw. Call the number on your screen! Operators are standing by!

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)

I realized I’d forgotten to take nice photos of this mask on its own, so here I am fixing that! I’m really happy with how well the neon green pops against the black.

It is still available, so it could be yours! I’d also love to make more versions of this mask with other colors, so if that piques your interest, hit me up!

New shorter version of my canine muzzle mask (previously). Tried out this neon edge paint look, and I really liked how it turned out! Sadly it took forever because I didn’t have quite the right paint for the job, so it required like 5 coats. But I added glow-in-the-dark pigment to the mix, so that’s neat.

It’s available here on my Etsy shop.

Here’s the process of constructing my paladin’s armored corset. I started from measuring myself, designed to those measurements in Rhino (3D CAD program), printed out the pattern, and then built the whole thing by hand. I put a bit more detail in the captions if you’d like to follow along.

Here’s the photo from the night I finished it up:

Making a corset had been on my projects wish list for a long time, and I’m glad I finally was able to tackle it. I was really worried it wouldn’t fit properly or something would be wrong with the design and I’d have no way of knowing until I’d gotten to the end, but thankfully it all came together cleanly and fit really well! On top of that, this was the first time I tooled a leather project, so it was cool to work that process out.

Next up is making accessory pieces for this to flesh it out to a full costume. Current plan is armor for shoulders, shins, and arms. For expediency’s sake I’ll be buying some patterns for those and modifying them to match this style, rather than designing them from scratch (which would probably take a couple rounds of prototyping). If all goes well, I should have the set ready to take good photos before the end of Magic Meat May!

Codpieces! I shipped these two out last week.

I’ve had a cluster of codpiece orders recently, here’s a couple of them.

Got a gold version of my “Overlapping Plates” design, and a very tasteful fig leaf censorship one.

Wolf mask!

This is an older design, but I recently updated it (added that rivet at the bridge of the nose) to improve the shape of the snout. After trying it on a couple designs, I think I’m gonna be going through and making that same tweak on a lot of my old mask designs.

Finally gave this unicorn his horn.

Raven skull mask!

I’m slowly going through a bunch of old mask designs and adding this little bend and rivet at the bridge of the nose. It helps pull the snout (beak in this case) upwards to point out from the face more cleanly. It’s a small but marked improvement on the shape of the masks. But it does mean I need to do a lot more photo shoots again.

Wolf mask in white, at the request of a customer. I normally go for dyed finishes, but I gotta admit, this came out handsomely.

I think I'm gonna add these as a standard option for this design. You can find it over on my Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/222009492/wolf-mask

Someone ordered 4 dozen of my leather fortune cookies. It used up my whole scrap pile! I like how you can see the range of shades the leather can be, depending on what hide it’s cut from. 

I didn't hear back from this client, but usually orders this large are for wedding party favors. If you'd like a pile for your own mysterious reasons, you can find them on my Etsy here, or single ones here.

This carousel horse has a bit of an attitude.

This was a commission for a friend. The base pattern for the mask is from Dieselpunk.Ro. I made some small tweaks on the mask itself, but the big change was designing the big floppy mane. I love how it hangs over the face like some sort of pastel pink scene kid. The sawtooth part of the mane is a reference to the haircuts that Norwegian Fjord Horses often get. The construction of the mane was a riff on how @ramshacklegear did the mane on his chess piece pony hood, so check that out here and here.

This pony also has a spicy side, second post incoming.

Photos by Adelair.

I hear it’s caturday, you think the blaze staffers will let this through?

Someone asked for a glasses-compatible version of my Fire Tiger mask design. I'd had issues with doing that on other designs, where the snout ended up too heavy and weighed itself down, but thankfully this one worked quite well!

New design! I finished this jackal hood just before the new year. I designed it to be angular and geometric, leaning in the direction of an Anubis style. I'll gladly admit to referencing Wild Gas Mask's jackal with the hexagonal snout shape, but I think I went in a decently different direction with it.

This is the first full canine hood that I've made! I'd sorta avoided it for many years. When there's dozens of people making cool versions of a concept, it's hard for me to feel motivated to throw my hat into the same ring. So I'd focused on other species like dragons or sharks. (Terrible business decision, I know, to just not have anything aimed at the pup play market.) But with this idea I finally felt like I had an idea unique and interesting enough to join the fray.

I'll have this one (and hopefully a second one with gold details) at my dealers den table at ANE in a couple weeks, and after that it will be available for continuing sale on my Etsy. I'll save most of the photos until I'm ready to start pumping for sales though.

The jackal stalks the night in silence, always alert and watchful. Is he guarding against danger, or waiting for an opportunity to strike?

After years of thinking I didn't have any good canine hood ideas, I finally remembered that Anubis is a good dog. I wanted to put a lot of character into the mask, so I really leaned into the sleek angular shaping. Especially happy with how the pointy ear cups mirror the corners of the ears.

If you'd like this psychopomp to weigh more than just your heart, you can find him over on my Etsy!

Prototype strap-on harness! This has been in the works for Too Long, but it's finally done!

It's made for a friend, and we decided on this pattern with leg straps and elaborated-jock-strap style butt straps. Partly to make the whole piece super solid and unlikely to move around while in use. But also just for the aesthetics. I used a bunch of big O-rings, and went for double-layer straps on the main belt and leg straps. Plus, added in some extra D-rings where I could fit them, because you can't be a top all the time.

Made with vegetable-tanned leather and brass hardware. Every piece was measured, cut, beveled, burnished, wet-formed, oiled, conditioned, burnished again, and riveted together, all by hand.

I'm not sure if this sort of thing will make its way into my product offerings. But I do know that I want to make something similar for myself, and I have an Idea for an outfit that it would work with.

I really cranked on this project yesterday.

Went for cutting cardstock templates and then tracing and hand-cutting the leather. Partly because garment leather is a bit more annoying to cut using the laser, partly to test the time difference. None of the shapes in this piece are particularly detailed, so it wasn't too hard to cut.

The chin turned out too tight, but it'll be easy enough to cut it out and make a new one. Will do that when I decide what sort of snout to make for it.

Working on a pattern that could serve as a base layer for pup hoods and variants. Will be making this in a heavy garment type leather, rather than the stiff veg tan that I normally use. Will probably just make this quickly and test the fit, then retrofit it with ears/snout.

I wanted something with more panels than the typical 2-panel Mr-S style construction, with the one main seam at the forehead wrapping all the way down the sides/back. That works well in the stretchy neoprene, but when I tried it a while ago in leather it came out boxy and awkward. Also with my workflow I need to build the mask out of smaller pieces to fit in my laser cutter.