It doesn't rain but it pours

This is going to be a wordy post with probably no pics.

So on Friday I sat down to work on some Halloween dragons for my shop. They are going to be a black base with orange accents, now my black fimo is a big 350g block that I've had for a few years and i'm over halfway through it. Its a bit hard so a lot of conditioning is required to get it suitable for making dragon with. The clay is now all rolled into balls and its soft, wonderful, I start working on the body of the first one. I don't really notice that the clay is too soft and its sticky until I start to attach the tail. I'm getting frustrated now as holding the dragon is making it go out of its shape, I can't use my black premo clay as the design I want for these dragons are their tails curled up and premo uncurls in the oven, not helpful. I power through trying not to touch the clay too much as I think the heat from my hands is not helping.

I managed to make one dragon but did not bake its wings as I was planning on doing that the next day. During the night one of the cats gets up onto the desk and knocks the tray with the wings on on to the floor and now I have to remake the wings. Fine, not a problem, oh wait the clay is still stupidly sticky, arg.

I still have two more dragons to make with this clay, so Saturday I start the next one. Somehow the clay is now even more stickier and I am get frustrated trying to shape this next dragon so much so I scrunch the bloody thing up and throw it.

Right now I need a win, I need to restock the shop and get on with my long list of dragons to make. I've just recently bought the whole colour selection of sculpey souffle, so I fish out the black and I make a tiny dragon with a pumpkin. This makes me much happier as now there are two dragons sat waiting to be baked.

I decided to bin off one of the ideas as this black clay is getting me stressed, I power on through the next dragon with the black fimo and so far its sat on the tile halfway made and its ok so far. I decide to call it a day at 6pm yesterday and when I have unbaked clay sat on my desk I cover them with tubs that use to have biscuits and cake things in. They are cleaned out before being used to cover the dragons, except the one I used to cover the dragons I have struggled to make, and baptise them in crumbs........

ARG.

Thankfully I am able to blow off most of the crumbs and it hasn't affected the dragons. Anyway I haven't baked the dragons yet so I am fully expecting more crap to happen.

Skull-a-Day progress

At this rate its going to be Inktober soon lmao.....

Skull-a-Day Creative sprint

For the last 2 weeks I have been working on a Skull-a-day project. Having slightly more success at doing this daily than my Inktober projects. If you follow my Instagram or Facebook then you will have already seen these:

So far I've only missed 4 days, I think I am having more success because I am not limited to one medium, its fun to use anything and everything I have accumulated over many years.

Scrawlrbox June 2017

Ok so I am not as far behind as I thought.

June's Scrawlrbox was Chameleon pens! When I had started my subscription with Scrawlrbox I did wonder if the Chameleon pens would make an appearance, and they did! Though it was a bit of a roller coaster with my opinion on the pens. It went from initial joy at the pens being in the box, then frustration at trying the gradients and testing them out. (They also came with new colour tops, which instead of the pen blending from clear to clear, it blends from one colour to another. Which is really cool and they are not available for sale yet). Then a bit lost as to what I could do with the prompt of 'Maximum Carnage'. In the end I went with a favourite subject of mine: Skulls!

My first attempt was a T-rex skull and I started to really enjoy using the pens. This piece even got featured in Scrawlrbox's Instagram story! I was over the moon.

I wanted to do another piece but using the red pens, so I did this one. 

After making the last two drawings I wanted to increase the range of colours I had so I bought the Nudes pack and the Grey tones pack. The Grey tones being used the most in this drawing of Corvo's mask from Dishonored. 

Currently there is a competition to win a set of 52 pens, Have a look here

July's Scrawlrbox arrived on Friday so I need to get started with that.

Weekly update

First up I made some more mini dragons:

This time a blue and gold one with a matching d20

and for fun I made a mini version of my Dragonsdust Love, minus the necklace as its neck is too small for a chain to go round and the charm is too big for the model. Both these dragons are in the shop

Mays Scrawlrbox arrived! yay was a bit later then normal. Highlighters?! the prompt was workspace highlight and the print that came with it was a portrait done with neon colours so I took the portrait as inspiration and did a self portrait. This is a photo as the neon colours do not scan well. Quite pleased with the result and it came with a little sketchbook so I may do a few more drawings in. 

Fimo Friday

First up I made a tiny dragon to go with the tiny dice I bought last week:

So cute! really love making these tiny dragons, so I made myself my own to sit on my desk:

And these beauties are restocked in the shop:

Anyway waiting on this months Scrawlrbox to be dispatched then the next blog will be whatever's in that *excited* 

Fimo Friday

A few new dragons in the shop and one custom dragon for a family friend.