#bmcgerudo

My favorite and largest plush to date: the sand seal!

I have an extreme love for the Sand Seals and the Gerudo rental outfits lol. Naturally I had to make both!

I patterned this by printing out a 3D model, taping it, and marking out the shapes. I then scanned this and increased the size by a good deal.

All the fake furs were from Howl.

The plush is pretty large, probably close to three feet or more in length. She has eva foam and worbla claws and tusks, and her current eyes are hollowed out googly eyes, all of which are attached via hot glue to felt pieces that were sewn against the fur, so they can be reapplied easily if accidentally pulled off without damaging the plush itself. She was stuffed with faux fur and fleece scraps and weighs a lot because of it.

This is my fourth plush, but only my second complex one. There's some things that could be cleaned up but honestly I'm thrilled with it.

Sand-Seal Shop Gerudo WIP

This cosplay was contained as many techniques as I could manage for a cosplay I didn't originally plan to compete in a construction competition (but did anyway, primarily for practice and to hang out with a friend). Bias tape making, iron-on vinyl, 3D modeling (though just with Tinkercad, I got pretty close!) and prep, armor making, pattern drafting and modification, resin casting, foam work, hand sewing, and wig work.

I wanted this to look as cartoony as possible so I used bright colors and iron-on vinyl, no shading or weathering.

This was my second ponytail wig, if you count my terrible Fran (FF12) wig lol. This was the second attempt, as the first was even more helmet like than this one, but unfortunately looked awful. This one came out fairly clean, but it's uncomfortably heavy and when I wore it it gave me a bruise on my head for a few weeks (I've sense added padding underneath in the hopes to save myself some pain next time I wear it).

Since the og design of the Sand-Seal gals would require me to wear a strapless bra (and expose parts of me I'm a little shy about), I modified it by making up an OC and deciding why she would have a little coat lol (she's a sand-seal conservationist and tour guide of sorts haha). This gave me some leeway into picking the hairstyle I wanted, as well as what jewelry I wanted to make; in the end she got a mix of every Gerudo age category for her jewelry, and the jacket came from the elderly Gerudo ladies, but with an original-ish logo.