Life of the Armored Lady

Jasper is done~! :D This was tons of fun to work on, and was probably the most time consuming airbrushing job I’ve done thus far. Jasper is for swandog’s husband, Sayh.

They wanted a jackalope with a similar style to my first, but with a traditional hare shaped face for a more masqueline look. I used my own hare base for this one: https://www.etsy.com/listing/236792233/diy-realistic-jackrabbit-hare-rabbit?ref=shop_home_active_6

1/6 dolls are in the shop! http://missmonster.myshopify.com/

This is Yig, Fig and Zig the monsters! They are explorers/junkers. They travel with their old war buddies looking for scrap and useful items to recycle. They have a lot of stories and jokes to tell.

This is a customized 1/6 scale ( 12" tall)  fully articulated figure. The head, hands and feet are my own sculpt, cast in urethane, painted and sealed with clear coat. The figure’s body is a toy blank that the parts have been attached to. Parts can be removed and re-attached via the ball joint pegs- please keep this in mind when traveling with the figure- keep an eye that a foot or hand does not pop off and get lost! These figures are so much fun to make and are fantastic for photography- they pose so well and look realistic. I hope the new owner has a good time with them!

The clothing and gear is collected from existing or slightly modified doll clothing, other toys parts and found objects.

A HUGE thank you to Larry for the fantastic pictures!

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Any maker that can sit there and stick every single scale on an argonian’s head manually is an extremely dedicated one. Every piece of work is screaming with talent! 

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And then don’t follow up with a lecture telling them the proper way for them to react to this. Don’t pull the ” i was gonna buy but not now because you didnt put up with me” You want to be a customer? Be a customer. Don’t try to cross into the role of savior or advice giver if you can’t handle someone not taking your advice.

Artists hear “you should….” from strangers almost every day.

Strangers who have no insight into their work methods, what they have and havent tried, etc. We get that people are trying to help but unsolicited advice gets really old, really fast. It starts to make you feel like everyone around you thinks you are incompetent or needs saving. We managed to build a whole business, teach ourselves through trial and error, did research, learned all the skills that come with selling your work and are doing exactly what we want for a living…but somehow we still hear “you should…”

 It’s not that we aren’t open to improving or open to new methods- but we have peers we go to for that, we have people that we have that sort of relationship with… it’s like going to get your oil changed and then hanging over the person’s shoulder to tell them how to do it. They got along just fine before you showed up and if they need help , they have people they work with who they’d ask.

Every time i have said “thanks but no thanks” to this sort of advice , it almost always gets met with venom and anger and a need to punish and shame me. So that tells me that advice had much more than simple “advice” behind it. It came from a feeling of superiority and when a lowly person like me did not accept it- well,

how dare you.

It has happened so many times that these days i just try to ignore it to save me from hearing the inevitable abusive response .

So look, if an artist says “thanks but no thanks” just back off. They have heard it from every family member, every person who hears they make art for a living ,   ..it’s death by a thousand, obtuse, trying to be helpful but sort of insulting cuts.