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Upcoming Griffin Surge
Apr. 3rd, 2012 02:09 pmMan, I totes need to get myself a creative Dreamsheep icon. And then make all of my icons either Dreamsheep or fish. ANYWAY.
BIRD LOVERS! I would like to solicit your help with a thing! See, I have the urge to make a pointed griffin - color-pointed, like Siamese/Himalayan/Ragdoll/etc cats and Siamese/Himalayan rats (which are really a thing and totally adorbs besides). And while I'm having little to no trouble figuring out the coloring for the cat/lion-part of the griffin, the eagle-part is giving me a bit more trouble. Mostly the bird-specific parts. Assuming the griffin itself is seal/brown-point, what color should I make the bird legs/beak? Also brown? A darker yellow than usual? Just my normal color? If I make a blue/gray-pointed griffin, what color then?
Also, the wings! I know they're going to be on the "cold" end of the spectrum, but how much should I make really dark and how much should I make just medium dark? ATM I'm thinking the majority should be medium dark with just the feathery bits and where I bind the wire in full dark, since those areas are basically on the 'edges' of the wings, but I don't know much about birds. IDK, what's the warmest part of a bird's wing? Should I just draw diagrams of the options I'm thinking of and ask for a vote? Hrm.
Other griffin-making-related plans include: a second brown-eyed white griffin, since the one sold(!!!!) at the art show on Saturday and having a second would mean I don't need to completely take the listing down on Etsy; a griffin that's part tiger instead of part lion, with slit-pupil green eyes; and more gold-eyed brown griffins with optional gold-and-scarlet scarves that I will sell as "Godric the Griffin" because I am a geek at heart and nothing can change that. Oh, and probably a gold-eyed black griffin that I will sell as Kit, because as I said before: geek. Yes ♥
I've also got vague non-griffin crafty plans for Things In Bottles. Mostly because I didn't feel like throwing away the bottle from that dollar store oil diffuser if I could do something with it instead. I'm currently torn between a tiny octopus (because adorbs) and a tiny space shuttle (because Space!Ship in a bottle 8D). Still, I'll have another one ready to go soon enough. I also have a lightbulb bottle that I picked up at Hobby Lobby yesterday that I want to crochet a tiny Pikachu to stuff into for the lulz, and kind of want to start advertizing for OTPs-in-a-bottle (the other Ship-in-a-bottle 8DDD) but would probably need to make one or two first.
I am so looking forward to dumping stuff on the AI staff table in Artist's Alley this year ♥
BIRD LOVERS! I would like to solicit your help with a thing! See, I have the urge to make a pointed griffin - color-pointed, like Siamese/Himalayan/Ragdoll/etc cats and Siamese/Himalayan rats (which are really a thing and totally adorbs besides). And while I'm having little to no trouble figuring out the coloring for the cat/lion-part of the griffin, the eagle-part is giving me a bit more trouble. Mostly the bird-specific parts. Assuming the griffin itself is seal/brown-point, what color should I make the bird legs/beak? Also brown? A darker yellow than usual? Just my normal color? If I make a blue/gray-pointed griffin, what color then?
Also, the wings! I know they're going to be on the "cold" end of the spectrum, but how much should I make really dark and how much should I make just medium dark? ATM I'm thinking the majority should be medium dark with just the feathery bits and where I bind the wire in full dark, since those areas are basically on the 'edges' of the wings, but I don't know much about birds. IDK, what's the warmest part of a bird's wing? Should I just draw diagrams of the options I'm thinking of and ask for a vote? Hrm.
Other griffin-making-related plans include: a second brown-eyed white griffin, since the one sold(!!!!) at the art show on Saturday and having a second would mean I don't need to completely take the listing down on Etsy; a griffin that's part tiger instead of part lion, with slit-pupil green eyes; and more gold-eyed brown griffins with optional gold-and-scarlet scarves that I will sell as "Godric the Griffin" because I am a geek at heart and nothing can change that. Oh, and probably a gold-eyed black griffin that I will sell as Kit, because as I said before: geek. Yes ♥
I've also got vague non-griffin crafty plans for Things In Bottles. Mostly because I didn't feel like throwing away the bottle from that dollar store oil diffuser if I could do something with it instead. I'm currently torn between a tiny octopus (because adorbs) and a tiny space shuttle (because Space!Ship in a bottle 8D). Still, I'll have another one ready to go soon enough. I also have a lightbulb bottle that I picked up at Hobby Lobby yesterday that I want to crochet a tiny Pikachu to stuff into for the lulz, and kind of want to start advertizing for OTPs-in-a-bottle (the other Ship-in-a-bottle 8DDD) but would probably need to make one or two first.
I am so looking forward to dumping stuff on the AI staff table in Artist's Alley this year ♥
