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Finally had time to finish this guy, I had to put it on hold for a while since classes got so busy. The wait was worth it, though, I’m so happy with how he came out! This might be one of my favorite sculptures I’ve ever made, I love the armor so much. It’s definitely one of the most detailed I’ve made. The armor took a while and was quite the pain to figure out, but it worked out in the end. The quiver in particular was giving me grief, the straps are made of such thin clay that I had to be very careful when connecting everything. I definitely guessed on a few parts of the armor and the runes on the backside of the quiver since the references were blurry or didn’t show them. Most of the buckles are eyepins that I formed into loops and squares, I love how they look. The rivets and buckles on the straps are sculpted, I tried to get them as close to the thickness of the wires as possible and just painted them silver. I really like the fabric of the neckpiece, though I was a little sad that it covered up the nice neck fur I sculpted. I’m not the most experienced with doing realistic faces and I’m not 100% satisfied with the eyes and cheek fur, but I think I got pretty close. I’m glad I decided to wash and weather the leather areas, they look much better than they did just a flat color. And now I can keep him next to his little friend Pincushion! 

This sculpture is 5 inches from nose to tail and 3 inches from paw to ear

Throwing my crochet Pincushion into the ring! I love this little guy, I couldn’t resist making a plush of him since there’s official plush yet. This was a fun project, I really like how the black stitches on the patched together areas came out. I wish I had a better shade of purple buttons, but I might try making more Pin plushies using other patterns. Now he can sit on my nightstand and keep me company :)

I used this pattern with some small edits! He ended up being about 6 inches from paw to ear

Fun fact: a lot of the things Occtis mentions he’s not able to do anymore are functions of the cranial nerve autonomic motor system, like making saliva, producing tears, GI tract function, and aspects of the gag reflex, as well as a number of sensory functions like limited sensation and taste.

So many thoughts! It was just as brutal as I knew it would be. I liked getting to see more of Astrid and Eadwulf, I didn’t expect Wulf to have been so playful. Also oooff the part of Frumpkin howling and pawing the window of the burning building, I was expecting it but that was still rough. Owelia sewing seeds of doubt in Beau by only talking to Caleb in Zemnian was such perfect mind games, and oh man that ending! I was shouting at Trent every time he was on screen, that evil wizard needs to die >:(

Love that they kept Nott’s “He’s my boy” speech, that was wonderful. I think the change to how Caleb tells the group his story is a good one, I’m interested to see how the tension between him and Beau plays out. I do hope Fjord gets some moments to shine like the others have, he’s kind of been the butt-of-the-joke punching bag a lot so far.