After Drawing One (1) Promising Anvil, I Thought I Could Easily Render Metal (I Could't); Two Attempts

infinity repeating - a draft

🔥RAT METAL🔥(a continuation of this)

getting ready to shoot my final photography assignment

2020-2021

Craft update #3: The hand from start to finish

started: Aug 2022 finished: Dec 2022 status: falling apart

at first I taped my hand with masking tape to draw the segments directly on it and then trace them onto paper, but it didn't help much as they would end up not matching each other anyway - I got fed up with it very quick and just freehanded most of the parts

yes, at some point I tried sewing it onto a woolen glove (it was way too thick) - ended up sewing my own glove out of a stocking and used WHITE THREAD, because I didn't believe any of this could be done anyway

thought it will be impossible to glue the segments to the glove, because it had to be done when wearing it - the polyurethane glue reacts with the fabric, gets hot and melts it, so it would probably burn my skin and then stick to it forever

I managed to evade that with wearing a latex glove underneath, although I could still feel the heat; it then had to be cut out from the inside of the gauntlet somehow

I honestly thought I wouldn't be able to ever put it back on (thought it would all fall apart), but it's wearable, just takes some time to adjust it to fit and you're ready to pet the rat!

the sewing is definitely the weakest part - besides visible white thread there are holes on the sides that I can't keep up with repairing next thing is there's nothing on the inside of the hand, just the plain stocking, where I should probably put some thicker fabric elements I'm looking forward to make an improved version - I have a lot of ideas and some more cans, but nothing more so far

anyways, it still is the coolest thing I've ever made; maybe that's why I'm anxious about making a new one

back to January, when I finally made my very own 'Man of Progress' mug

it turns out I have just the perfect amount of strange stuff in my room for a photo shoot like this (jk, I have way more weird stuff (don't ask me about the laboratory scale))

it was already a year after I watched the show; I found the design hilarious right away, I think because of socrealism being a huge part of my country's contemporary history. it's something about it being very idealized, proud and majestic, but also an obvious propaganda. and Jayce overall just looks like a character from one of this kind of posters

the mug is store-bought, so I should rather say that I made a sticker or just painted over the original design and made it printable anyway, it was harder than it seems, but I feel like I learned more while working on this than I will at my uni (graphic design is my passion)

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Avo's Tear sword from fable The Lost Chapters, ref below

please enjoy this silly goofy simple fanart I drew in March while watching the best (funniest) anime I've seen in a long time

thanks for +1 follower, here's a funky edit I made combining random photos