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This guy sold within 6 hours of my posting it, so that was nice. Here’s some last photos of it from before I shipped it out. These photos show the gradient from darker to lighter on the underbelly a bit better.
I’m planning on making more of these, maybe this month. If you’d be interested in commissioning one, maybe with a more out-there color pallet, drop me a note!
Come on in. The water’s fine. Don’t worry. He’ll only bite once.
Made of leather! I designed it in 3D, laser cut the pieces, dye them with a subtle gradient of blues, form them to shape, rivet them together, and finish it with a glossy top coat for a watery sheen.
The proportions of this mask are optimized for excellent vision, with the eye holes resting close over the wearer’s eyes. Ventilation is through the mouth. The sides of the head are shaped to give the ears ample room. It laces up the back, with the fin splitting open when donning and closing up to conceal the laces when tightened.
I am finally ready to post this up for sale! It is available over on my Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1251970940/shark-hood
I’m hoping I get to make more of these in other colors in the coming months.
Blending in nearly perfectly at night, this deer is an enigma. A god or spirit of the forest? A soul lost forever in the woods? A warning?
This is the second deer mask I've made, and even more of a cryptid than the last. The white paint is both glow-in-the-dark and safety-reflective. It shines light back in the direction it came, just like road signs and bike reflectors. It looks incredibly strange in flash photos.
This design is available for sale on my Etsy! Here you go: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1278404459/midnight-sky-deer-hood
Decided to subtly improve this codpiece design. I decided it was a bit too flat, and needed to curve to hug the hips better, and it needed a bit bigger of a bulge for obvious reasons. Updated version first, previous iteration second.
I’d originally designed this one physically, though. I’d traced the pattern geometry into CAD to laser cut, but it turns out that (as best I can tell) reconstructing a 3D form from its flattened geometry is an unsolved problem. So what I thought would be a quick edit turned into rebuilding it from the ground up.
I’m pretty happy with the update, but I think I got only about halfway to where I wanted it. Gotta pump the curvature up a bit more again still. Should be faster to make the tweaks next time though.
4 oz vegetable-tanned leather, designed by me, cut with a laser, then dyed gold and assembled by hand.
This has definitely become my favorite codpiece design. I made this version to have in stock for ANE earlier this year, when I wanted to have a variety of colors shown. I went for the same color combination as I used for the costume that this design originated with - seen here.
It's available over on my Etsy. I'd love to make it in more colors for people, too!
Just finished up a custom spiked version of my paladin codpiece for a customer.
I quite liked how it turned out! I might make another later and tweak it a bit further, though. I'm considering making it Less Spiky and switching to rounded studs, but also considering More Spiky and squeezing in a line of 1" or taller spikes down the very center.
In the meantime, I've added this as a variant of the design over on my Etsy page.
This collar is sure to get you melting too.
Made of leather! I shipped this one out to a customer this week.
Here it is on my Etsy! This one used a new purple dye that worked a lot better than the previous one I had, so I also updated the listing photos to reflect that.
Made a new dragon muzzle mask! I used a new green dye on this one, and for the first time I am Extremely pleased with it.
I've put it up on my Etsy! This one is available for immediate shipping, but as usual I can also do other color combinations made-to-order.
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.
I put together a whole bunch of leather collars for ANE. This style was, unsurprisingly, everyone's favorite. Made 4 of them, sold them all. I still had enough spikes at home for one more though, so I figured I'd throw it up for sale while I wait by the mailbox for supplies.
Etsy link
These pups are eager to get out and play, whether that's chasing balls at the beach, or chasing tail at the club. If you're looking to adopt, make sure you've got the energy to match.
Made these two pup muzzles before ANE, one with a sea green gradient, the other with a synthwave sunset. I hadn't really intended them to go together, but after finishing them, I couldn't help but think of them as a pair.
They're now available for immediate adoption, or custom orders, over on my Etsy shop!
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!
Rainbow collar! This time a leather one!
This is one of the designs that I've switched to hand-cutting instead of doing it all with the laser. Less scorching on the edges, and faster! I have the laser lightly mark where the cuts will be, then I razor blade and trim it by hand.
I do still have the laser cut the holes that the rivets and buckles will go through, because it lets me do really fine-grained detail like having the rivet holes on the top straps be very slightly farther apart than on the base strap, so it forces the collar to curve the appropriate amount.
Available here!
Watch out, there's sharks in those waters.
I made this second copy of my shark hood in time for ANE earlier this year, and here I finally am posting it up for sale! The first one I made I went for a slight pearlescent finish, which turned out not to show up that well, so this time I dropped it and just kept it blue. It's also a bit darker this time, and I think the gradient to a lighter underside went quite well!
This beast is ready to join you for a dip, if you're brave enough: