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This is the tutorial for the body of the tiger shark! I'm going to make another post for the fins and tail. I'm sorry the pictures are sort of small but I was having trouble adjusting the size of them so I just did the best I could

Link for the dorsal fin:

Link for the side and tail fins:

I’ve been thinkin abt this one for a hot sec and honestly, I’m not too sure! I personally think every kandi is visually interesting to me :]

Idk if it’s helpful cuz I fear I’m not the greatest with advice & all, BUT I think about where I kinda started off. Adding charms and different shaped beads outside of pony beads is an easy way! This doesn’t necessarily mean going and buying charms either, you can make your own and add them on! :D (this I can try and make a mini tutorial for if anyone wants?). Doing some sort of pattern can help as well like repeating beads, maybe symmetry! <- this is a lil hard for me to explain but like repeating patterns (red, blue, yellow, red, blue, yellow & so on), or having some sort of symmetry like a big bead on either ‘end’ of the bracelet, and then smaller ones in between them. :P i kinda went and dissected one of my Kandis for examples of some visually!

oh my goodness thank you so much!!

as far as string, I’m using one I don’t prefer as much just cause I have a lot, it’s 1mm elastic. Probably be better to use elastic cord (with the thread around it and stretchy center, I never remember the names) since it ties easier, but my 1mm clear elastic does stretch more, which helps and does not help in tightening my stitches

for patterns I’m yoloing this one- the top 6 rows (light pink) are basic 1 bead x base (x base is what the stitch is called if you need to find resources btw), then I did 3 by 3 (white) row, then 4 2by 2 (med pink), another 3 by 3 (grey) and am ending with 2 4 by 4 (hot pink) and more white (either a 4 by 4 or a 5 by 5 I haven’t picked). With ‘flat’ circles you have to either expand how many beads per stitch or how many stitches because the circumference gets bigger, but if you’re doing something vertical like a cuff you just keep the size and stitch count the same.

for example: making my collar I kept the same number of stitches, and added extra beads after a few rows of ‘x’ so itd flatten out instead of getting really really tall.

x base is actually pretty simple cause you’re essentially building repeating triangles, if that makes sense? You have a central bead that makes the points of the triangle, and you can stretch or shrink the sides as long as they are equal with eachother