Sculpting Cloudburst

The process of making one of my latest two small raptor figures, this one being a poseable art doll, with fabric body, and clay head, hands, and feet.

I actually considered that approach when Skye's second figure was at planning stage, before deciding otherwise. Skye's mom was my first customized existing figure, and Skye was my first figure sculpted from scratch, so I suppose it's fitting Skye's child is my first art doll. :)

I worked on Cloudburst for a little over two weeks from late October to mid November 2022, at the same time as I worked on Tempest, who took longer mostly because I took a break for a while from sculpting her to focus on this figure.

I started by putting together a wire armature. The spine is a long piece of two 0.3mm jewelry wires twisted together. One of the two is twice the length, looping at the tail tip, so it's really three wires. The limbs are 0.8mm steel wire, with the arm and leg on each side being the same piece. There's also a steel wire for the other weight-bearing toe of each foot.

Fluff, fluff everywhere!

Miscellaneous crafty progress

The raptor skeleton decoration is a souvenir from my birthday field trip. It's a skeleton, so.

Wondering what will be a good way to attach the reflective fabric bone shapes onto the gloves, considering the fabric isn't stretchy, but the gloves are. Maybe I'll get different gloves for this after all.

I'm not going to finish the skeleton gloves today, but that's okay, I'm not making them for halloween (which I don't actually celebrate, as I'm not christian and the trick-or-treat version is not a widespread thing in Finland anyway, I just like the aesthetic). If I get to wear them sometime before spring, I'll be happy.

Reflective skeleton gloves WIP

Since 'tis the season for all three of

1. gloves
2. wearing something reflective when out after dark to avoid getting run over
3. spoopy scary skeletons

I'm seeing if I can make myself something out of that. All already halloweeny handwear I can find is costume stuff and not actually warm, and idk maybe reflectors aren't as much of a thing where halloween is more of a thing, so I guess it's up to me to do the combining.