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Cozy With Plushies

My entry for the Hatsune Miku Fan Forge (Cozy At Home challenge). 

alright this is it! the final version of my submission to the fanforge homestuck contest

While not officially on the website, here’s my submission for the RWBY fan forge!!!

So this is the full breakdown of my mug submission on fan forge.

If you have an account with forfansbyfans please consider scrolling through the fanforge submission page cause there are some pretty cute designs on there

https://community.forfansbyfans.com/m/fan-forge/designs/Homestuck-Fan-Forge

And if you wanna throw down a vote on mine, thank you so much

https://community.forfansbyfans.com/m/fan-forge/designs/Homestuck-Fan-Forge/list/id-12195

I am a sucker for a neat looking novelty mug and I wanted a mug line for the trolls as well, but like there’s only so much we can do if we stuck to the same face mug design as we got for all 4 beta kids

I wanted a mug that was more fun, that gave me an idea of the character it was representing, so I went for something more textured, adding colors from a few comic panels for accuracy, and just having fun with it

The handle will be textured like a real gnarled tree branch, the leaves hanging off the edge will be a small canopy of sculpted clay, and the ropes holding the scalemates, the branch TZ is sitting on, as well as TZ will be raised on the surface [like suggesting 3D but not actuually 3D].

The larger yellow scalemate on the front will be a small clay sculpt. I really like spinner mugs [where there’s this little thing in the center that we can spin around and fidget with while drinking coffee]. I don’t know if that’s the correct term for that kind of mug, but I’ve got nothing better to call it.

But I didn’t feel a spinner was good enough, for lack of better words. So instead in the little niche pressed into the mug we’ll have a dangle and a chain attached to the Scalemate so he can swing back and forth while you drink.

At least that’s what I want the mug to be.

If it ever does get picked up for production, I’m almost positive that we’d have to adjust the colors of the leaves in the foreground, and maybe lighten up the blue of the background, like I know THAT will be a thing that happens.

But hopefully no major changes past color adjustments, cause I think giving it some texture and a scalemate that’s actually hanging makes it more interesting but also makes it more representative of the character and their surroundings.

The texture and dangle does make it one of those hand wash only, non-microwaves safe kind of mugs, but most novelty mugs are like that. Anyone that collects novelty mugs [myself included] has probably succumbed to hand washing most of their drinkware by now. I mean we might be able to put it in the dishwasher if we make the scalemate dangle removable, but that would be a very small crab claw and I don’t know if people are willing to deal with something so tiny just so they don’t have to hand wash a mug.

But hey you don’t actually have to drink out of it if you don’t wanna wash it, you can also just display it or have it hold your pencils/other stationary desk junk, it’s what I do with most of my mugs at this point [cause there is NO room].

I COMPLETELY understand if the spoon is not your favorite design for a spoon, cause it feels like it doesn’t go with the color and design of the mug itself. I get it, I get what you’re putting down. I wasn’t happy with the branch design I was working with for the matching spoon, but that doesn’t mean a proper matching spoon isn’t being worked on.

As a replacement, I wanted to do a metal spoon instead of a ceramic spoon [they’re easier to mill cause you have a mold, but also I didn’t think that a set of novelty spoons would be something the fans are interested in, but I still want a cool spoon SO] and make it with the coloration of Terezi’s walking staff including the little scalemate head on top.

I originally wanted the scalemate head to be sculpted and facing the correct direction, but I realize that is a LOT  of sculpting and it might not be very comfortable to hold, so I simplified it down.