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Still working on it, but I think this should about do it. Allows for nearly full range of articulation, and for the armor layout I like without inhibiting joints.
Changed the knee, elbow, and ankle confirgurations. Also redid the forearm armoring and skirt armor mounts slightly. PROGRESS!
There's been a lot of interest in this piece lately, so I thought I'd show where I'm at with it currently. About 200 hours so far, a little more than 50% finished.
Just starting to gather possible ephemera and papers for a new piece which will be my contribution to the forthcoming "Adhesion" exhibition
"花 空 池 星"
テーブルランナーとテーブルマット 制作中
Tokyozome cotton (hand-dyed)
Original art work: Mayako Nakamura
Stencil: Keiko Nasu (Ise Katagami)
Cloth Dyer: Kumiko Ishizuka, Ishizuka Senko
Advisor: Naomi Sakamoto, Sakamoto Gofukuten
東京染め (手染め)
原画: 中村 眞弥子
型: 那須 恵子 (伊勢型紙彫刻)
染め: 石塚 久美子 (石塚染工)
監修:坂本 直美 (坂本呉服店)
not a great photo, but a fun knitting/crochet project :-) Mitered squares with a crochet edge - almost done now!
Please see previous posts regarding the making of the face.
I have now coated the face with several layers of soy wax and then I padded it underneath before stitching it to the croched and knitted background.
This picture shows the extent of the moulding of the face.
Mixed media.
(snapshot directly from inworld, Caliah Lyon's windlight settings, no postwork)
Since the release of Sayuri I've been working on a softer skin again, a softer version of Eva if you will. Though I try to make my skins look "real", I find my personal preference fighting that all the way, and I want to stick to the handdrawn/pastel look.
For the interested: The bikini is from Artilleri and the hair is from Fri.day
This shows a close up of the machine stitching. I have put a layer of chiffon over the velvet which has been embellished with embossing crystals.
Some of the crystals are very thick so I avoided stitching over them.
I will now burn away the chiffon with a heat gun.
These hang around the studio, getting in the way and looking more and more bedraggled.
I have taken the bull by the horns and made a hanging display book so that they are now all in one place and out of the way.
This is the first stage.
As I wanted the pages to be easily removable I have safety pinned these to individual pieces of dyed blanket which will act as the book hinges.