Wolf Skull Muzzle Mask Commission That I Just Finished Up! It Took More Back-and-forth With The Client

Wolf skull muzzle mask commission that I just finished up! It took more back-and-forth with the client than normal, but I'm really happy with the final result.

Made of 4 oz vegetable-tanned leather, which I laser-cut, dye black, form to shape, paint white, and seal up all myself. I actually took a good number of photos while making this, so here's a making-of post.

If you'd like a version of this for yourself, I've listed it up on my Etsy shop!

Here’s the process of constructing my paladin’s armored corset. I started from measuring myself, designed to those measurements in Rhino (3D CAD program), printed out the pattern, and then built the whole thing by hand. I put a bit more detail in the captions if you’d like to follow along.

Here’s the photo from the night I finished it up:

Making a corset had been on my projects wish list for a long time, and I’m glad I finally was able to tackle it. I was really worried it wouldn’t fit properly or something would be wrong with the design and I’d have no way of knowing until I’d gotten to the end, but thankfully it all came together cleanly and fit really well! On top of that, this was the first time I tooled a leather project, so it was cool to work that process out.

Next up is making accessory pieces for this to flesh it out to a full costume. Current plan is armor for shoulders, shins, and arms. For expediency’s sake I’ll be buying some patterns for those and modifying them to match this style, rather than designing them from scratch (which would probably take a couple rounds of prototyping). If all goes well, I should have the set ready to take good photos before the end of Magic Meat May!

Here’s a quick pile of some of the masks I’ve got on hand, to show off for Virtual Anthro New England weekend. It’s sad that I can’t be meeting people in the dealers room and sharing my stuff in person, but photos are OK too.

These masks are all on sale  for 20% off through tomorrow over on my Etsy, along with everything else on the shop!

Also, the convention put together a really cool Minecraft version of the hotel and surrounding areas of Boston, you should totally check it out.

I’ve found it’s surprisingly tricky to get non-awkward photos of bracelets being worn. Oh well, you gotta suffer through me hand modeling for myself.

A couple more Pride bracelets I made for folks recently. The scale ones are a classic, and I’m slowly working my way through more pride flag combinations on those. The ring one (Japanese 6-in-1 pattern) was partially an excuse to try out some new gray rubber rings. I was pretty happy with the double-sided idea there; it can be worn showing either the white or gray rings as the background.

The scale ones are available here. The stretchy ring one isn’t a standard option, but you could get a similar one here and just tell me other colors to make it with.

And! In celebration of Anthro New England’s virtual convention this weekend, everything on my Etsy store is on sale for 20% off this weekend! If you’ve been eyeing something, now’s the time to jump on it!

A very green dragon tail. The base color is the standard green, the stripes are a darker shiny/premium anodized aluminum.

This one measures in at 35 inches long, 3 pounds 6 oz. It’s got a lobster clasp at the tip for attaching things to.

Owl masks! I made the blue one as a gift for my boss's little kid, who is obsessed with owls. The tropical colored one was one I realized I'd made last time I was stocking up for a convention, and hadn't photographed yet.

This is one of my patterns that is made to fit with glasses! The base of the mask continues across the upper lip to provide structure, and the beak fits over the nose. The gap between the eyes means your glasses can rest on your nose like normal.

obligatory Etsy link