Been awhile
Hey guys!
I know I am not on LJ too much anymore. I figured it was a note worthy time to update.
So, I have started doing suits allot more often. So much in fact that I ended up renting more rooms in my house because of it. I have my website on the way currently, and am taking on more commissions. I am a little nervous to be honest. That's not a new emotional for me. It's not my abilities. I am more concerned with matters out of my hands. I am just going to do my best and have some fun with it.
One thing I have noticed with my added workload is my lack of social time. I tend to feel very isolated. I used to use any excuse get out of the house. Now I find that I am turning down events and friends I would have probably called out of work for. I have mixed feelings about it. I am far more focused than I have been before, but the toll on my personal relationships seems high.
I will not be attending MFF this year. I was on the fence about it for a tad too long. However I will be going to FC. It will be my first time to California. I am thinking of taking some extra time off to see a little more than just a con hotel :P I seem to feel stuck at most cons. I always feel like I am missing something, even though 90% of the time during the day I know for a fact I am not.
Other than that the holidays are coming up, and I have no idea what I am going to do for that. I did have a cool idea for my mom. We lost almost all of our family photos in a move. Well, I should say that my father was really neglectful, and childish and sold the house from under us, but that's another story. Anyway, seeing that we where missing such a large archive of our family I figured I would do something. I was going to contact my extended family, and see if they had any photos of my direct family at all. I was going to have them send whatever they could so we could at least get some moments back. My mother loves Christmas, it's her thing. She always dose it up as big as she can manage. So, I was going to get the pictures and all of her favorite Christmas music that she also lost over time and throw it on an iPod touch. That way she something material, and maybe give her something she thought she had lost.
As far as I go, I have been a little overworked lately, and I can tell. I sure once things clear up a little I will be ok. The added stress has been hell on my system. I really need to sleep more.
So, managed to get this suit done really fast.
Anyway..
This is my second lemur I have made. It was an interesting challenge to make the same animal, and similar character almost back to back without making a blatant copy of the first suit. I tried my best to change up a few things, and tried some new things too.
Though the hands and feet are very close to the ones I made for Spook, they are far more comfortable, and just have a much cleaner look.
As far as the head, I took some artistic liberties, and really went heavy on the fading. Though it may look somewhat more rounded than the other lemur head, it really has a much more defined shaping to it. I wish blacks came out better in the pictures so you could actually see the muzzle clearly, but that seems to be the nature of the color. If you look at some of the previous head shots I had posted you get a better idea of the profile of the head.
For the body I went with a new patterns to give it a little more shape.
In this picture you can see the feet. Like I said, they are very similar to the ones I made for Spook, but they are much lighter, and I thing just look better. P.S. That is not a string in this picture, It's the white chest seen between the arms.
This picture almost has that "I've fallen, and I can't get up" look to it. Rest assured, no lemur was harmed in the making of this post.
*waves*
Sassy.. You can really see the body patterns in this one.
I really like this picture just because of Floridian sunset backdrop more than any real features of the suit.
Thanks for looking.
see you next month.
-Spook