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I really MUST stop starting projects before I've finished anything else. It's my biggest failing, and one that's plagued me for years and YEARS. Today, however, the quasi-procrastination has been serendipitous...
I've been toying with the idea of a cosplay of my blog background-art character - my "draco-demi form", but the dragon head was looking like a major stumbling block, until I found THIS:-
Constructing Anubis on INSTRUCTIBLES.
This seemed sent by The Gods - a possible answer to my problem. Going through the article, I started sketching a rough version of my take on the design, and ended up with what looked like a 1/6 scale
I inked out a cleaner version, cut it out, taped it together, and employed the services of my 1/6 scale companion, Little Lady (thanks, sweetie). IT WORKED. I just had to rescale the pattern I'd made, and I'd be making a MAJOR step towards making this project actually HAPPEN. Today, I printed up some graph paper, marked out some six centimetre squares on it, and set to work transferring the pattern to a life-size equivalent, which was quite a job... but it worked surprisingly well when copied onto card, cut out and taped together.
Now that I have a full-size rough version, I can start modifying it so that it becomes less "low-polygon" - the more of that I do, the less modelling work needs done to complete the mask, and bring it into line with my original vision. I already had incomplete foam horns from a planned dragon head-piece that hasn't quite materialised yet, and tried them out on the new mask...
...and they lined up almost PERFECTLY, just behind the eyes of the new mask. This, I concluded, was simply MEANT TO BE. My dragon-self may soon be a living, breathing reality (sorta)!
Guess Operation Subtle Epsilon just got a Phase Three.
I'm getting more and more encouraged to restart my "Ace Of Thorns" You-Tube channel as a means of documenting these, and other crafting projects. I could already have plenty of material for it...
I've been toying with the idea of a cosplay of my blog background-art character - my "draco-demi form", but the dragon head was looking like a major stumbling block, until I found THIS:-
Constructing Anubis on INSTRUCTIBLES.
This seemed sent by The Gods - a possible answer to my problem. Going through the article, I started sketching a rough version of my take on the design, and ended up with what looked like a 1/6 scale
I inked out a cleaner version, cut it out, taped it together, and employed the services of my 1/6 scale companion, Little Lady (thanks, sweetie). IT WORKED. I just had to rescale the pattern I'd made, and I'd be making a MAJOR step towards making this project actually HAPPEN. Today, I printed up some graph paper, marked out some six centimetre squares on it, and set to work transferring the pattern to a life-size equivalent, which was quite a job... but it worked surprisingly well when copied onto card, cut out and taped together.
Now that I have a full-size rough version, I can start modifying it so that it becomes less "low-polygon" - the more of that I do, the less modelling work needs done to complete the mask, and bring it into line with my original vision. I already had incomplete foam horns from a planned dragon head-piece that hasn't quite materialised yet, and tried them out on the new mask...
...and they lined up almost PERFECTLY, just behind the eyes of the new mask. This, I concluded, was simply MEANT TO BE. My dragon-self may soon be a living, breathing reality (sorta)!
Guess Operation Subtle Epsilon just got a Phase Three.
I'm getting more and more encouraged to restart my "Ace Of Thorns" You-Tube channel as a means of documenting these, and other crafting projects. I could already have plenty of material for it...
