2021

Craft update #1: the cardboard dragon

started: Aug 2023 status: abandoned

last year I had this wonderful idea to make a big articulated dragon thing (a childhood dream come true) ideally it would be made out of thin wood sheets (balsa wood?) and have bolts for joints - I guess the plan was to make a cardboard and toothpicks sketch and then a pattern to have it all laser cut (if you can even order smth like that), but I stopped at the (unfinished) sketch

it took days to cut out the segments (with the hind legs being remade entirely at some point) and I wasn't satisfied how the limbs connect to the torso (because I didn't plan it) - it would probably have to be remade/fixed a lot more, but I simply got (very) tired of it

now, the wings were supposed to be the really cool part, with hinges to allow them to move up and down, inner bones made of wire and some fabric for the membrane.. this never went anywhere and stayed as an idea in my head (one shitty cardboard wing sketch was made)

as of now, the dragon has been taped together to prevent everything falling apart, and is hanging from the ceiling to watch over when I sleep (first pic)

back with a new craft I tried

a quick thing just to make something

games imitate life

and I hate life

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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[2022] 'tis but a scratch!

those are both redraws of smth I did for goretober back in 2019 (which I'm looking forward to redraw again, because it looks bad enough already)

funky creature composition

please enjoy my abstract INK PRINTS those were made using a purple dye I stole right after painting our easter eggs, black ink, vinegar, my bedroom floor (it stank even 2 days after) and 3 different types of paper