The Moon Flower Buck: WIP 1

And I'm back! Wow did we have a great week away. I got all the time I needed to rest my weary head and my pregnant body. Now it's back to the grind though, but I feel that all the energy I lost is back and I am ready for another month of hard work before baby arrives. So yesterday I thought I'd take some own time and started sculpting something that has been in my mind for probably about a year now. The Moon Flower Buck!

I've had this creature in my mind for quite some time and yesterday was the day I finally felt ready to sculpt him. He is a creature of Tomodachi Island that I will tell you more about once he is finished. He is a flower God anyway.

 I started with building a base out of wire and foil, as I always do. Sculpey tends the go brittle if you layer it to thick and it won't bake properly in the middle when you burn it.

 After that I work out the rough shape with sculpey and then work on the finer details such as crinkles and wrinkles.

 I found it important to start with the body in this particular sculpt. I normally start with the head, but it was so important that the head was the right size and didn't look to big and clumsy on the body.

 Once the head was in place I could start working on the little features...

Such as the ears and the horns. I don't sculpt them straight on to the creature as I need to dress him in fur. But I have made little holes in the head where the ears and horns can be glued in to after the fur is in place.

There he is in all his shiny naked glory. Ready to go in the oven :)

 Baked and ready to be sanded. I tried the horns and ears out on him properly and they look lovely!

Sanding is the most tedious and boring job so I won't have you sit through that. But he is ready to be primed now anyway. I will prime him later today and hopefully start the paint job later tonight. I can't finish him yet though as I am waiting for some decorations for him. I am very excited about this little buck though. He is my biggest sculpture so far and I really can't wait to finish him. He stands about 31.5 cm tall at the moment (without the horns) and about 22 cm wide. He's going to be soooo purdy!!!

This Week So Far...

 This week so far I've mainly been working hard to get all orders done for the week as we're going away today. It'll be nice with a mini holiday in West Wales for sure. I really really need it now that my belly seems to have reached a massive proportion. It is heaaaaavyyyy!

 As usual it is a mix of things in on the order list, but it keeps me entertained and it's nice not to do the same thing over and over again (which I guess I do anyway...).

 Been trying out some different packaging ideas for MobiLOVE as well. And I think this one is the winner so far. It will obviously be in colour, but my printer toner has run out so I need to sort that out. I want to make a backing sheet as well, but I haven't figured that part out yet. Maybe next week :)

 There is a few new patterns in the making. I was drawing like mad the other day and came up with quite a few ideas. We'll see how they come out when they're finished.

 The Lotus flower study is coming along well too. I enjoyed drawing the lotus leaves and think they will look very pretty once coloured in and put into a pattern. This will probably be the most elaborate pattern I've made so far. It will be a challenge but I am looking forward to it. Just hope I won't mess it up along the way with my zero experience in making patterns hehe.

 This has been a long time coming. I have finally started building a website for myself as an artist and designer. I've wanted it for many years but it is so expensive to hire web-designers these days and personally I know nothing about web. But I found this page called Squarespace.com which is absolutely brilliant for someone like me. It costs about $8.00 /month which is a great price. And they let you build your website and customize it for FREE!

So you can try it all out before you pay and design your whole website to see what it would look like. If you like it, you pay and VOILA! You got your own website. And it is absolutely user friendly, anyone can use it. It gets five gold starts from me!!! I am not finished with it yet and it's not live but I hope to be within the next few weeks and would love your opinion on it once it is finished. It is so hard to write about yourself and try to promote what you do. But I think I'm getting there!

Anyway! I will see you on Monday when I get back from Wales. Hope all of you have a great week and weekend! xxx

More Zodiacs Finished...

I am 1/4 through the cute Zodiacs so far. 3 down, 9 to go. It is a long process but I have noticed how it is quicker and quicker for each one I complete. Since Illustrator still is quite new to me, I am learning as I go along. And every time I use it I find quicker ways of doing things and I am finally starting to feel quite confident in the software. I can't believe I have worked for so long without it. Using Illustrator and Photoshop together is absolutely amazing.

These are the three finished Zodiacs anyway, and I am super happy with all of them. I can't wait to print them on my phone cases and also make art prints out of them. They're just so colourful and full och life.

A mix of things...

So I am slowly getting back into the swing of things. The past couple of weeks have been a bit slow for me. I don't really know why, but my mood has been horrendously bad. I guess it is all down to pregnancy hormones and the fact that there just isn't enough hours of the day to do everything I want to do. I am also waiting for my Holiday to start which I have been looking forward to for a long time now. It will give me the chance to finish so many unfinished projects and give me time to just enjoy being pregnant. I am looking forward to having this time to myself, Ceri and the baby.

Something has come up as well that has given me such a creative boost and I can't wait to tell you more about it. But until everything is set in stone I rather not tell as I hate getting disappointed. And I don't want to disappoint you lot either hehe. Anyway, I only got two weeks left in work now and then I am free for about a year. Free to create and to be a mommy and I can't wait. Until then life will continue being slow though I think. Work is not a blast at the moment as I am very hindered by my pregnancy and end up sitting on a chair for most of the day. Not having a challenge really puts me off work and it is no fun. I need stimulation both mentally and physically in a job. And I used to get this out of my job, but I'm not anymore. So right now it fells like I'm just sitting there, waiting to leave.

I think I will be making another batch of Buggles when my holiday starts as well. Would you like to see some new Buggles in the shop? They normally go pretty quick, but there is two left from my last batch and they are unique and one of a kind.

These two! Click the picture of the one you fancy.... They can't wait to go to a new home! <3

Hope all of you are having a great weekend. Me, I'm off to work :'(

WIP's of the Week...

 Yeey! It's Friday! And I've got a whole weekend off to look forward to. How great is that?!?! I thought I'd share some WIP snapshots with you. I am doing work at the moment that is a bit more elaborate and takes a bit longer to finish than just fairly simple patterns. This is why the blog posts have been a bit more sparse lately. But I am trying to update you at least every other day. So these are the WIP's anyway. Hope you like having a little sneak peak in to my brain ^^

Have a great weekend Everyone out there! <3