My Instagram :) I Am Working On This Little Dragon For My Sister!

Finally have sandpaper and wooooow, what a difference it makes!

Slowly but surely adding and taking away. Rinse and repeat. Working on the nose and brow ridge before reworking the mouth. Progress is slow while I work on a long-overdue commission for a friend.

So excited. I’ve been using Crayola brand paper clay for my doll so far. My sister got it for me, for Christmas. I was so happy to have anything to work with to start this project. It’s been working just fine although I’m sure I’m working harder than I’d have to with higher quality clay. I was finally able to get out to Michael’s and they had La Doll brand, the satin smooth pack and it was only $6.99 for each 1.1lb bag! I only got two and plan to set them aside for when I run out of the Crayola brand. I’d rather use the lower quality clay while I am learning and save the other for when I’m more experienced :)

WARNING ABOUT A REALLY NASTY NEW VIRUS.

Meet CryptoLocker. It’s your worst nightmare. A lot of antivirus software, including the big names, cannot yet detect or stop it. If your computer gets it, CryptoLocker takes all your files hostage by encrypting them and giving you a certain amount of time to send a certain amount of money to the man behind the virus.

The encryption is very tidy, and so far seems uncrackable (well, crackable, but it might take a couple centuries). If you tamper with the virus itself, it will pretty much self-destruct and take everything with it. And the way the money is transferred, the dick programmer behind it all for the moment is pretty much uncatchable.

YOU CANNOT GET RID OF THIS VIRUS WITHOUT COMPLETELY WIPING YOUR COMPUTER. YOUR ONLY CHANCE IS PREVENTION AND PREPARATION.

Back up your computer to something like an external hard-drive, or even an internal hard-drive that you just take out and stuff away somewhere for safe keeping. Make sure your antivirus is up to date, avoid skeevy sites, and don’t open random emails. DO NOT download email attachments unless you know exactly what it is, because that seems to be how this is primarily being transmitted.

You can learn more about it here.

This is a little dragon I'm making for my sister. It's far from finished and I plan to smooth out the clay. Hope to finish it by her birthday if not sooner.

Want to use a fancy custom language for something, but don’t know how to make one?Use Vulgar!

Vulgar is a conlang (constructed/fictional language) generator created to help literally generate a language for you. No, really. No tricks, and it’s super simple to use. It’s my favourite tool right now for writing fantasy, even as someone who loves creating his own languages, it’s an amazing starting point.

Want a random conlang, straight away, with no prep or fuss? Just visit http://vulgarlang.com/index.html and click “Generate New Conlang”… and that’s it. Scroll down and through your brand new, generated, completely original conlang. 

If you’re a little more advanced in terms of conlanging and want to specify IP phonemes to be used, you can add them too, but even with no knowledge of linguistics you can create a language at the click of your fingers.

This version of Vulgar is completely free, sure…. but! the guy who created it has not only made an amazing thing (which I repeat, is absolutely free at it’s most basic point), but is also planning on updating it more and more!

Under the “Buy” tab on the Vulgar website, he links to his email, where you can offer to pay for the full version of Vulgar, which is a total steal right now at a sale price of only nineteen dollars. Considering professional conlangers and linguists could charge you, like, a metric fuck ton of money for the same data you’re getting here for just nineteen, that’s a major steal.

Not to mention, buying the alpha build now gives you free access to all of it’s updated versions, which I can guarantee are just going to get better and better! I’ve already bought it and I adore it, and this is a tool the likes of which we in the conlang community have never seen in such an awesome way.

Please consider helping Vulgar out, because the creator is a damn genius

I really began to like her features here but so much was off center, I had no choice but to shave parts down. By the way, I don't have sandpaper, so all sanding and shaving is done with a blade, haha. I do plan to get some eventually.

I’m giving away the prototype for my lifesize Alolan Meowth!

The newest Gen has me back at making pokemon dolls, and I wanted to share the love! This Meowth stands at 1′04″, and is made from faux suede, metallic lame, and gray minky.

Rules to Enter:

-Must be following me! My followers have been a constant inspiration and source of support for me, so why not join in on the fun? No giveaway blogs.

-Don’t spam reblogs! Once a day, please. Multiple times in one day doesn’t work anyways.

-Reblogs will count, but likes won’t!

-Must be 18+ and willing to give me your address. Shipping will be free worldwide!

Deets:

This giveaway is affiliated in no way with Tumblr! Please do not tag this as giveaway!

The giveaway will run until September 16th at 8 pm EST! Winner will have 24 hours to respond to me, and I will be selecting using an RNG.

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Sorry for the lack of updates. Still busy with other projects and my crazy life! You probably can't see much change but I've worked on her symmetry and I've been working on her skull shape and size some more.