Shop Update

What was supposed to be the April Shop Restock Event... is now the May Shop Restock Event!

I've renewed all the listings that expired forever ago... and added a couple of new things. I've got a few things that might actually go in the store planned but... well... we'll see how that pans out!

Blog posts are like buses...

You wait for one, and three come along at once...

So, after I'd finished planning out lots of cute, little things to try and make... I decided to not make any of them yet.

I got distracted. By this cute little guy...

That face...So cute.

So yeah, while I was looking through my image folders of things to possibly make, I stumbled across Tantarian, an optional boss monster from FFIX, which I must have saved an image of ages ago. He looked at me, I looked at him...It was fate.

He's too big for my normal little photo nook corner...

The book pages are actual paper pages I made, which smell of coffee [eww], because the teastained style just wasn't cutting it. His ribbon bookmark, page finder, thing, is actually made of a tube of ribbon, with a wire inside to give it the shape. Everything else is made of Polymer clay as usual. He's...not quite the same proportions as the ingame version...Maybe this is a baby Tantarian. I'm thinking of painting him a library backdrop to sit in front of when he gets his proper picture taken.

I still think he's cute anyway. Plus he has re-awoken my enthusiasm, and the Bravely Default project is back on!

The front/back of his book. The flash seems to have highlighted all the shiny fingerprints you can't see in real life.

Why yes, I did decided to make the front and back covers of his book as well, even though no one will ever see them... Why? Because I am a lunatic and making the parts that no one will actually get to see is one of those irritating little quirks I have. Woe is me.

Bravely Default Part 3

They've been sitting on the shelf for... probably almost a month now, but I finally got round to finishing the paintwork on them [I hate that part] and so now they can join their brethren here, on the blog.

I wasn't very happy with the way the faces turned out on the previous ones, so I spent some time prodding my templates and design sheets, and decided to try out a new method of transferring the faces to the plain head shapes. I think it worked out alright. Might still need a little tweaking. Of course, now they don't really match the previous ones...but I'm not going to go back and remake those ones! >.<

Spiritmaster Tiz

Salvemaker Agnes

Merchant Ringabel

Spellfencer Edea

I forgot to take a photograph of the set altogether after I painted them so... 

We'll have a shoddy one from before they were painted to tide us over.

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!