Just needs the face, tusks and claws now!

I'm so excited to see this progress. She's too heavy to take easily to a con unless I'm feeling silly but I've dreamed of this prop for ages so I'm super happy to see it happening lol.

Progress on the sandseal.

Those legs took up my entire day between sewing them together and getting them positioned. Now to just sew them to the body.

It looks amazing! Those details!!

I'm finally starting my official prop for this- an actual sand seal! She's just a tiny one lol.

Anyway I patterned this via tape and hope; it came out pretty good! The only part I've had to really figure out is the face, since the model I printed was so small lol.

Honestly having them for that as a secondary use as well would be perfect! So that's great to know, thank you.

It would limit my access to tutorials and methods I've saved as well. I guess it may be time to screenshot everything lol.

Apologies for the journal of grouchiness today. Been on my mind for a while and I just need to -splat motion- this out.

But I also hate social media right now. I hate how slow it makes me feel, how unaccomplished. Maybe taking a year and just focusing on building without this frustration would help. Take pics on my own, or try to. Keep photographers in mind if possible.

I find it hard to do shoots in general on our own because of where we live. You want some hills or scrub oak? Sure. You want literally anything else? Good luck, you must travel a minimum of 2-4 hours.

How do people do this part of the hobby lol.

Yay. Just ribbon left now.

Weathering~

Almost done! Just page painting and weathering left.

Tomorrow there's a semi-local event and another on Sunday. I'm really excited to be in costume for two days lol.

At this point it's mostly funny. Stings for half a second followed immediately by "PFFFFT-"

Something something jealousy something something sad something something...

It was so well done and so dang funny. Husbandit died once or twice because we were too busy giggling or listening to the song.

Everything dealing with Mr Door so far is funny anyway but this was just a treasure.

The truth about cosplay is that sometimes it takes all day to -checks notes- design two pages for a spellbook.

#bncmismagius

I have seen this in folks of all ages. And their friends who also think winning is the only goal.

I agree that it feels very unnecessary to even have to cover it in such a basic way but unfortunately I think a lot of people lack that emotional intelligence and maturity and need it spelled out.

Ex. My mom watched me at a comp and actually recorded herself booing the guy who won Best in Show. Because she has that "winning is the goal" mentality. "You should have won! He sucked!" (He did not, his cosplay was beautiful and he had stage presence).

I no longer share recordings with her.

Unfortunately I think this has to do with cosplays rise in popularity, in all ages of newcomers. A lot of people coming in don't understand that we should do it for the love of sharing our work and making friends. A lot of folks are raised with the mentality that winning is the goal.