What's in a title anyway?

As usual, it's been forever since I got round to updating again....

March was... a bit of a mess really XD It started out alright, with my birthday, but then the day after I got sick which was... less alright =P Nothing serious but still distracting. I did update the blog a little with a few changes [for better or worse!] and managed to finish off the third set of Bravely Default figures. I had hoped to get another set done before Easter, but it just didn't seem to end up happening. Spent Easter visiting my parents [Mmm free food] , got back planning to knuckle down and finish Bravely Default set Four and... Nope.... Wasn't happening.

I've never been very good at longtime projects, I tend to get bored and lose interest after about 2 weeks of working on something, but I suppose I thought this might be different, given that it wasn't one large item, but many, separate small items. But I ended up getting all 'burnt out' and losing all enthusiasm for the whole thing, which is lame.

So in an attempt to 'reboot' and get psyched up again, I decided to try making something else! Or at least, planning a few other things. I mostly wanted to see about some smaller, cutesier things...Palate cleansers I suppose =P

Kingdom Hearts Heartless - Shadows

Kingdom Hearts Heartless - Shadow, Mushroom, Powerwild/Bouncywild

Ni no Kuni Familiars - Mitey, Toko, Drongo

Rune Factory Monsters

The token 'I want to save paper, put everything unrelated
on one sheet' collection . Including, The Blue Badger,
PLOK, Mr Saturn, a Cutrabbit, Rainbow Goblin
and Louie.

Bravely Default Project begins...

Thus starts my largest project so far...

I've decided to make a figurine for each job class in the game Bravely Default [with a few exceptions...], and I decided to make 1 of either Tiz/Ringabel and Agnes/Edea. This is because the male/female costumes for each class can be quite different, but the differences between each character [ie Tiz or Ringabel] are less noticeable...and if I made 4 figurines for each class I'd end up with... 80 or so figurines in the end! I'd go mad!... Not that that isn't going to happen anyway XD

For now I'm not planning on making three of the classes - Valkyrie, Time Mage and Dark Knight. This is due to their costumes having... elements I'm simply not sure I'd be able to make work in size constraints, and on a personal level, I consider the potential frustration at trying to make those classes is not worth the 'feel-good' factor of having made a 'complete' set XD

I've tried to split it so Tiz/Agnes and Ringabel/Edea are spread across a variety of jobs, although there are some choices made solely cause I liked one outfit better than another, or I felt the class fitted that character better than another.

Well, that's enough boring talk, time for some pictures! I've actually finished two sets by now, kept meaning to post after finishing the first one but I kept forgetting >.<

Set 1 - This was actually my endgame party set up XD

Knight Tiz

Spiritmaster Agnes

Ninja Ringabel

Black Mage Edea

Set 2 - Would be more efficient to do both male/female of classes at the same time but...that's boring!

Salve Maker Tiz

Knight Agnes

Black Mage Ringabel

Merchant Edea

Updates!

I've just updated with a COMING SOON! list, showing all the stuff I've been planning out over the past few weeks. Of course, I tend to end up getting enamoured with whatever I'm playing at the time, so... there will probably be some more projects that get given preferential treatment over some of those but... I planned them at least!

I'm also planning to finally write the MASTER LIST...just not tonight as my arms are tired XD

Also I'm thinking of trying out a new background image. I already changed the layout slightly, but I've got a couple of ideas to maybe make the blog look... about 1% less amateurish.

Time for tea and biscuits methinks.

Keyring Kollection

... I'm starting to regret titling this 'Keyring Kollection' already XD

But anyhow, I'm back! Not that I've really been anywhere, but as always it feels like I haven't updated in a thousand years.

I've got another post coming up detailing a few new projects and such, but this one is just to show off the new stuff I actually have finished right now.

Seeing as Christmas is now a billion years away, I decided to switch from Christmas decorations to keyrings! I went with the circular face style I used for the felt decorations I made, as I felt that it as keyrings, you don't really want lots of fiddly little parts that might break off and such if you decide to actually...well use a keyring as a keyring!

Dragon Quest Slime, Final Fantasy Cactuar, Mario Goomba and
Kirby and a Waddle Dee from...well Kirby.

Animal Crossing Keyrings - Isabelle, Digby, Tom Nook, Celeste,
Cyrus, Leif, Redd and Mabel

They're a little out of focus because I couldn't use the flash on my camera, as they're varnished so they end up looking like this otherwise -

Shiiiny.

I have once again, exhausted most of my clay supply [well the black/white/brown at least], but once I restock I may be making a few of these to go in my shop.

As a bonus, you can take a look at the design pages I made for these keyrings. I still have a lot of designs I haven't made yet!

Christmas Special!

I'm not quite dead yet, just been pretty busy, as is usual for Christmas time!

Made myself another set of Polly & Clayton figures, and also some typical Santa, Reindeer and Snowmen figures. Tried to do something a bit more exciting with the backdrops as well.

Christmas Casual

Santa Style

Winter Snowmen

Santa at the North Pole

Halloween Special!

Running very late, but here now, is the Manda's Marvellous Mysteries Halloween Special!

It's also a chance to introduce my two newest characters, Polly and Clayton! They enjoy a good spot of dressing up, and are going to be appearing in a range of different costumes for the foreseeable future.

For now we have Polly & Clayton, Series 1 - Halloween Special!

I've also been toying with the idea of trying out a combination of my figure work and my paintings, similar to a project I did at University a few years back, so I created these illustrations as well.

Vampire was originally going to have his own Scary House backdrop, but it wasn't going to be finished in time.

As a bonus, have some lineart for each Polly and Clayton outfit before I coloured them!

A mixed bag this lot!

It's been a bit hectic here, what with my boyfriend looking for a job, possibly having to move, then him getting a job where we didn't have to move afterall, but once that was all over I could get back to my beloved Polymer Clay and get making again!

...Soooo I made a load more christmas decorations... I don't think our tree will be big enough to hold all of them!

I have got a list of ideas of video game characters to make and other figurines, but I'm holding off on starting anything really substantial until the new year, when I'll have a little more money and won't be distracted by cool things like HALLOWEEN and CHRISTMAS! Sqwee.

Anyway, I have been making a few things, I decided to focus on making some smaller decorations, but they'd be in sets of 4 [or 5 in one case]. Anyway enough chatting, more pictures!

Christmas Themed Kirbys! Rudolph kirby had an antler accident... And I love Chilly. So much. Chilly is love. Probably my favourite Helper ever.

Pacman! And ghosts. Originally only ghosts.... but then it felt weird with no Pacman... so they got a slightly wonky looking pacman to join them.

Kingdom Hearts Heartless - The Music Quartet... I have no idea what they should actually be collectively called... I just loved the 4 colour idea, and I've always found these guys pretty cute... even if their tendency to fly around and be annoying is frustrating XD They do have little legs, but they're not glued on yet, cause then they wouldn't be able to stand like this for a photo...

Animal Crossing Snow Family... They looked so easy... But I had to make sure they were the perfect size or they'd be SAD. Plus they required a lot of sanding and buffing to keep them nice and white.

Animal Crossing Jingle the Reindeer. He's a REINDEER. Automatically I love him. He does have his presents sack, but it's white so... you can't see it!

Dragon Quest Slimes. These were... not exactly a challenge. But Slimes! So cute. Making the metal slime though... I had the twinkliest hands ever. Took forever for it to all come off. I think everything on my desk is now also slightly silvery. *sigh*

Aaaand that's all for now. I might be making a few things to go in the shop, I'm not sure yet, but I do know that October is dedicated to non-gaming Halloween figurines so I won't have time to make too much else.

Toodles!




As usual, all characters and designs are © their respective owners, NINTENDO, SQUARE-ENIX, NAMCO BANDAI.