Needle Felt Things & What's Next Illustration!

A teeny hamster.

 

 Vastly improved by his bottle cap helmet.

Molang fan-art with removable felted top hat.

Totoro fan-art with extra squishy-ness.

Here's a sneaky peak at what's coming next:

Meet William the Norman vs Elric the Anglo-Saxon! Who said history can't be adorable? :P

I haven't worked out how, but I will be making these in one form or another!

Child of Nature...

I had a lot of fun sculpting the leaf pattern on this one. Looking forward to what's next :P

Child of the Universe...

He's just under 2 inches including the wings, and made of super sculpey and wire. There'll be more little Children of the Universe soon :)

2 Birthday Presents!..

I've been making things!

Firstly, I was lucky enough to be commissioned to make another Hare as a birthday gift for a customer. Here she is in her new home:

The other present was for Jon's birthday. I wanted to try and make a figure of his engineer illustration:

Here are the results:

I'm pretty chuffed with how she turned out and I think he liked her too!

Onwards! :D

The White Hare: Adventures at ToyCon...

ToyCon was amazing! It was so great to get to meet everyone I'd been speaking to online for so long and they were all super lovely. There was some great and not so great news on my Hare. She sold within the first 5 minutes (which is amazing), but the person that bought her then proceeded to break her legs and return her (not amazing). The wonderful Richard of UME toys supplied some emergency glue and she got to go back on display, but she may have a new home yet! :)

Here are all the pictures of her I have, I was a too excited and forgot to take photos on the day but you can just see her in the cabinet here.

Here's hoping I'll have a few more pieces there next year! ;P

Beaky Bird Plush...

A plushie I wanted to make after watching Jim Henson's Creature Shop Challenge (great fun series, makes me want to make puppets :P) Made of faux fur, feather strands, Super Sculpey and felt,he's super squishy and pretty cute to boot :)

The White Hare Revealed!..

"The most famous belief about white hares in Cornwall is that they are the spirits of girls who had been deserted by their lovers; as a result of which the girls died broken-hearted due to grief. Thus, with their spirit being unable to rest, they chose the form of a white hare in which to return and haunt their deserters. In this guise they are invisible to all except the one who jilted them, and they will haunt him until he finally dies."

She started out as one of these, I then added Super Sculpey, faux fur and painted glass cabochons. The eyes were a real labour of love, they feel like you're painting backwards!

I'll upload more pictures after the weekend when I know it's okay, but if you want to see the rest of the artists taking part (and you should :P) you can see them all here.

So excited for Saturday it's ridiculous! :D

The White Hare...

A sneaky peak!

It all started with a 4" one of these ...

Great British Myths and Legends...

So this is exciting :P...

A Plushie!..

One of my first full plushie experiments:

He's got a butt!

He's a fluffy grump! (I was gonna call him a Grumpkin but according to Urban Dictionary, it means something COMPLETELY different). He was fun to make and my first attempt at something completely soft using the terrifying sewing machine. It turned out pretty well for a first go so expect more in future! :D