Hello! Back again, I'll be doing a live Ustream on how to do the shaving and claws on sockpaws. This should finish it up!

The broadcast will be at 7:00 pm Eastern time, hope to see you there!

http://www.ustream.tv/discovery/live/all?q=niennis

I'm not entirely sure if this counts as a fursuit, so if it doesn't fit mods feel free to delete it. :)

I'm getting ready to make an excalibur (from the anime Soul Eater) cosplay, and it looks like I'll need to pad around the crotch area so it doesn't just look like I'm a tall person wearing a foam head. I've done normal digitigrade padding before, but this type of thing puzzles me. I don't want it to look really strange or lumpy or anything. =P

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thought I'd post this here too :)



Happy Holidays! *hugs*

Hey y'all. I was just wondering if anyone knew any good tutorials on making partial fursuits that consist of only ears (Not a full head), arms, feet, and a curled tail. Thanks in advance to anyone who lends me a paw.

Tags: partial suit
Current Location: Woodbine, GA 31569
Current Mood: bored
Current Music: "Castlevania Birds" by DeceasedCrab

I found this awesome sage green, 1 inch pile fur in my local Jo-Anns today and so I bought all there was of it (2 and 2/3 yards). Only thing is, I have no idea what to make with it.

( It's sage green, I swear. )

Reference entry: community.livejournal.com/artists_beware/264018.html

Edit: This has been going on since July 5th. I ordered a single page, single character commission, colored on July 4th. Due to Artist Alley rules at Anthrocon, I had to pay in advance, and I gave her my sketchbook, which she said would be done the next day. Since then, there have been long times without communication, and the most recent contact is below.

So, as of the moment, this issue is still not resolved. My last return of contact from the seller was September 4th, the results being:

"Hey Chester I wanna first apologize to you. My excuse for not mailing you your book or responding to your notes is honestly I took way more commissions than I could handle. Again sorry. It was not my intention to screw you over. See I took a bunch of commissions right before AC, some during AC, then still I had a couple people contact me after AC about commissions. The smart thing to do would have been to turn people away, but I still took them anyway. So that being said you can imagine I have alot of notes in my inbox to go over. PLUS also I've had a bunch of people noting me too about when their commission was going to get mailed out. That's why your notes prob got overlooked.

Well like I said I don't wanna screw anyone over. So I'll do whatever it takes to make this right. Just verify that your address is correct and I'll mail your book to you"

I responded confirming my address-And have heard nothing since. As Far as I can tell, she has been on since then, but has done no submissions. Any ideas?

Tags: advice for commissioners, artist-opiumrevolution, beware

Hello folks,

Just wanted to see if folks might like to get together for a fur-night-out at Phoenix Zoo Lights. I might be able to acquire a number of low-costing or no-costing tickets but I need to know how many folks would be up for it? And ideally which weekend (or if we can pull it for a weekday.

X-post to PHOENIXPHURS

Tags: zoolights
Current Mood: chipper

So I'm sure many people here use the plastic line from weedeaters as whiskers. Well I've always had the problem of it being wound up and I never getting it to lay as flat as I want it (because it comes in spools). Well I experimented some and found a pretty simple fix to this problem.
-Take a pot of water and boil it.
-Cut it into the lengths you want and dip the whiskers into the boiling water.
-Let them sit for a few seconds or so until they become pliable.
-Once they become pliable bend them into the position you want using an oven mitt.

Ta da! then you have non-crazy shaped whiskers!

I know this is out of topic and will take delete it if needed, I'm just kind of desperate...

A friend of mine who runs a rescue called me earlier today to see if my rescue would take a dog she'd pulled this morning. Originally she was going to the Oakland shelter to pick up a dog for another rescue, but as they were showing her some of the other animals she came across this very, very emanciated dog that was nothing but skin and bones looking all sad and depressed in a cage. They told her that she was going to be put down today and she felt so bad about that poor dog that she could not leave her there to die, so she ended up taking her too, just a few minutes before she was scheduled to be euthanized.

We don't have any history on this dog other than it was left in the night drop box. She's been tested to food aggressiveness with people and she passed with flying colors. She's also good with other dogs, Kate took her home with her and she's meet her other dogs as well as a pair of very barky and in your face chihuahuas and the dog was really good with them. She's been named Gracie and right now we're trying everything we can to find her a foster home as she can't stay with Kate (Kate fosters a lot of the dogs from her rescue and has no space to keep this one, my rescue only has three foster homes including my self, and we're all over our limits too - usually I wouldn't mind taking an extra one for a couple of days but I'm fostering a dog aggressive dog and her two pups and have two other dogs of my own). I've been calling everyone I know and posting on CL but no one seems to be able to help :(

Gracie is estimated to be about 1.5 to 2 years old, she's medium sized, is already vaccinated and will be heartworm tested before she goes to a foster home. She's supposed to be mostly white with tan spots but you can hardly tell because she's so filthy. She adores people and does good with other dogs. She's believed to be good with cats but we don't know for sure. If needed Kate has offered to donate food for her and we would provide with a crate and anything else. Please pass the word around. Ideally we would like to find her a foster home close to the El Cerrito/Richmond Area for easy transportation to our vet.

I don't have any pictures now but Kate's gonna take some tomorrow morning.

Thanks! :)

Current Mood: hopeful

done in loving memory of his dog
I added long fur to the face and neck to hide the connecttion of the fully articulated jaw, and did a shape of muted tan on the lower tummy ratther than the patch of maltball scattred color like on the real dog. otherwise i tried to stay as close to the real deal as i could. the mesh tear ducts are rather large but being black around the eyes i felt i could get away with it, it may be more visable this way but vision out this mask is quite excellent.
hands and claws made by artslave (i am outsourcing because i am overbooked and it saves me a lot of time)

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