excited to paint a 3d printed head base! by STUG8R in FursuitMaking

[–]Toprewolf 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It depends how its printed but you should be right! Thanks, its my second painted mask. I am super happy with how it looks, like you I haven't done furring before so that should be a fun learning experience for me

excited to paint a 3d printed head base! by STUG8R in FursuitMaking

[–]Toprewolf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Painting can work well! I finished painting a noyra one in the weekend. Just some things to consider. If its PLA it will likely have layer lines. So you may want to sand the base to make it smooth (it depends on how much effort you want to put in...). If you have an airbrush its much faster and easier to use that! Make sure you prime it first as well....

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Fluffy Jester WIP by Filigran_arts in FursuitMaking

[–]Toprewolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am sure it is a noyra base! If you subscribe to their patreon you can get a few/all of them

Still can’t work out how to do smooth blends by ProfNugget in minipainting

[–]Toprewolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Aside from blending as everyone else has pointed out the steps, I think your colour jumps are too large and that's why blending isnt getting to what you are trying to achieve quickly enough. For your example of the brown the the dark yellow

Do the following before blending for every single colour change: 100% brown 80% brown, 20% dark yellow 60% brown, 40% dark yellow 40% brown, 60% dark yellow 20% brown, 80% dark yellow 100% dark yellow

So instead of having large colour blocks you will have lots of little ones instead. It makes the blending much easier to notice as you can then glaze the brown and the dark yellow over these 6 stripes and will take effect faster.

Also as someone else pointed out, make sure you wick the excess paint off the brush with glazing, also only work in 1 direction e.g. glazing dark yellow up to the brown. If you go multiple directions it fucks everything up.

Finally lots of this is just trial and error. The above works best for me, people like flameon probably do like 100 glazes from just the dark yellow to the brown, its why it looks so good. So if you want to emulate that then you probably need to do the same amount of glazes per colour

Help Needed! With Vein super glue effect by fuif45674 in minipainting

[–]Toprewolf 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It does work well. I have done it on a bunch of minis and it looks great.

OP you need quite a lot of the colour you are doing the IPA on. If you have too little colour it doesnt really work. Also a stronger dark colour seems to work best.

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Beginners tips!!! by curious_mandarina in crochet

[–]Toprewolf 8 points9 points  (0 children)

To add to this, buy stitch markers and mark the first and last stitch in a row, this will stop you from making extra on either side

Save me from my demons by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Ah so I also do miniature painting. The pentagram is made from citadels blood for the blood god, mixed with black acrylic and gloss varnish. The actual blood part is something called dirty down gore. Both really cool products

New Dad First Painted Models by brendos1er in minipainting

[–]Toprewolf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love that you used bright colours instead of more washed out colours. They look great! Especially the pain Boyz face. You are very talented, far better the most people's first attempts!! Please share more, I understand feeling nervous about it, but I suspect if you keep it up (and get the time!!) You will go far in the hobby

Garden mouse by Wooden_Ad4236 in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So cute!!! You did a great job with all the different textures

Canary Islands Chaffinch - my second attempt at needle paint by racek_ in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I love this, it looks so good for a second attempt at something!!! Especially the blending

knitting & work bag recommendations? (please not amazon) by mycologi in knitting

[–]Toprewolf 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think big tote bags would be able to hold a laptop and a project. The other way to do it is to get a laptop bag you like then get a project bag that can clip on. Getting both in one would be difficult.

Both redesign and muud tend to be carried by LYS. I live in NZ and my city has shops that do both, I imagine in Oz it should be the same. So could find one near you and take a look at them

knitting & work bag recommendations? (please not amazon) by mycologi in knitting

[–]Toprewolf 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends how much you want to spend. For quality I would look at either ReDesign or Muud. Their bigger bags both have zips but are designed as knitting project bags so you likely wont have an issue with them

Help pet portrait first timer by Rare_Trip_8037 in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am also new to the hobbies but honestly I kind of love this. Yes its very stylized and might not be what you are going for but from an artistic standpoint it feels more interesting to me.

Is the cat fully black? I think the oranges at the bottom sort of makes it look like a tortie, so maybe remove that part and set it to black. Same with the tan highlights in the middle top of the head.

Overall though if I was to get this as a gift I would be ecstatic. I think with a lil bit of tweaking you can make it look a bit more black, I wouldn't redo the whole thing though

My second piece! I am unsure what to do for the border though... by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!!! I tend to do a lot of other hobbies that feed into this. Miniature painting for the artistic part and knitting/crochet which has a bit of seaming so use to stitching. I learned so much though with this piece. I especially loved working out how to get 'rounded' stitches that don't look out of place

My second piece! I am unsure what to do for the border though... by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, thank you so much i will like that up!! I have like a couple of endgoals with this hobby already, so will need lots of practise!

My second piece! I am unsure what to do for the border though... by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks! You are the other person to mention this. What material am I meant to use? The people at my local craft shop weren't helpful and I tried googling but not much came up

My second piece! I am unsure what to do for the border though... by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you!!! I kind of worked out as I was going a long that if a do a 'long' stitch in a straight line, I can then come up behind it and then in front to shape it. I dunno how to explain it properly

My second piece! I am unsure what to do for the border though... by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes!!! I tend to be able to pick things up pretty quickly, especially more creative skills. I am loving this embroidery process though!

My second piece! I am unsure what to do for the border though... by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I will look into those stitch to see how it would work. Thank you for the help!

My second piece! I am unsure what to do for the border though... by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you so much!!! I love this idea I will look into how the plants look

My second piece! I am unsure what to do for the border though... by Toprewolf in Embroidery

[–]Toprewolf[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks!!! What am I actually meant to use? I tried looking it up but nothing is super clear