Super-fast Mask Design! I Had An Idea This Morning For A Mask(-like Item) For A Character I Was Playing

Super-fast mask design! I had an idea this morning for a mask(-like item) for a character I was playing in a LARP today. The character was a librarian tree-person, in a magical library that was dying. So I made a forest of bare trees as a crown.

In 3 hours, from sketch through CAD-ing it up to lasering it out and dyeing it.

And I think the design was pretty good! I’ll clean it up a tiny bit and post it up for sale in a bit. Need to check if it’s feasible or worth it to try wet-forming the branches to give them some dimensionality.

Actually two separate codpieces that got ordered in quick succession. This is my more straightforward and simple design, and it’s made with a very nicely finished leather with a very consistent semi-gloss surface.

For the most recent one, I went and made some adjustments to the straps that probably nobody but me would ever notice. Fixed the spacing on some of the rivet holes, and tweaked the lengths of the straps with the buckle holes in them. And since the straps are modular and I use the same pattern on all my codpieces, it’s a fix that’ll carry through all of them.

Maybe you want one for yourself?

I am opening for dragon tail commissions! I'm looking to make 3 during May, possibly more into June. Info here: https://armoreddragon.tumblr.com/tails

Leather fortune cookies! A full batch of a dozen, fresh out of the oven! Stuffed with mildly perplexing pieces of paper!

I cut these when I’ve got a scrap of leather left from another project that’s too small to fit anything else on, and I’ll tend to dye them when I’ve got extra dye that I got out but didn’t need all of.

I’ve had them up on my Etsy store as singles for a while, finally put up a listing for a dozen.

Just some quick photos of this mesh/screen mask from before I shipped it out last week. This concept was originally just a quick prototype idea, but since people seem to like it I'm thinking I should probably do some variants like different patterns or a full-face version.

This was a fun test of neoprene! It broke! Great success!

I made this cuff bracelet and was going to wear it around for a couple weeks to see how the neoprene weathered/wore out. I’d expected the spandex fabric sandwiched onto the foam rubber to fray over time, and I wanted to see how quickly that happened.

Instead, the first time I went to take it off the neoprene stretched enough that a couple rivets slipped through their holes. So looks like I can’t just treat it like leather and fake it. Maybe larger rivets would work fine, but probably it’ll have to be sewn and treated more like fabric.

I’m just a bit sad, because I’d rather liked this design idea, and I’d been looking forward to wearing it.