furry blog

my contribution to the sinkdog web zine!! i had so much fun making sinkdog into a doll

Painting I made for my empty bathroom walls

Ken Sample and his cougar character, origin of the fursona.

Ken Sample and his cougar character, origin of the fursona.

Mask dump one of three lol Have a bunch of unguligrades from almost a month ago ’:D Painting the unicorn’s horn was definitely my favorite part of all of this, I’m soooo freaking happy with it-

[I’m trying to make less long posts cuz I don’t like how they look scrolling through my blog, so the rest are below cut :3]

i went ahead and made an illustrated tutorial that i hope will be helpful :) thank you btw!

I started this mask on the snout, which is originally a flat rectangle. then i fold it into 3 parts, so it becomes kind of like a hollow shape. then the top front corners get snipped but only part way! just enough so they can be folded in and create the muzzle shape. the edges can be trimmed to make the nose pointed and the muzzle lips rounded.

after this i cut a long straight rectangle and bend it a bit before attaching it to the nose bridge. then i cut out two parts for the cheeks which should be flat on the edge which they attach to the muzzle, and round on the egde which forms the side of the face. these should also be slightly bent to create a rounded cheek. the step after this can be tricky, which is cutting two more straight rectangles and then bending them to bridge together the forehead strip to the cheek pieces. this step ends up really defining the shape of the face depending on how bent/long/tight you make them

after that I cut out little triangles to fill in the gaps to create an appropriately sized eye, and for this one I also added some strips to form eyelids. the ear shape varies depending on species but i generally try to bend them a bit to add depth (admittedly the cat ear shape i've illustrated is based on the pattern for Furby ears lol)

the final touches for me are making the eyes out of mesh and attaching elastic using paperclips, and then you can paint/felt/fur/decorate it however you want!

We just tried this to get through a triggering situation with less panic, and it helped more than it had any right to. Stuck my hand in my pocket and felt a little more okay thanks to having a tiny toy mouse in my hand. The power of Little Friends is real.