Progress picture of yet another insane project I shouldn’t be doing, but am doing, for a con. Anime Central is next weekend, but I’m still determined to get this done. This will be a big woodburning of the MCs of Persona 3 and Persona 4 (Souji/Yu/Minato/Makoto). Still not finished shading, but I only work on it before work in the morning ^^
Anime Central, why are you so soon?! More importantly, why am I so insane with woodburning projects?
Two more clocks done for Anime Central! This must be what it means to be on a roll?
First, there’s the DBZ clock. The outside edge is painted to look like the dragon, with six dragon balls inside and the 4-star ball on the second hand, so it goes around the clock (thank you DBZ abridged for continuously reminding me about how much I love this series). The second clock is Fluttershy, done in an outline style, with her cutie mark on the side. She’s the pony that gets asked about the most as far as pony clocks go, but I never remember to make one. Now I did, yay!
This brings the clock total up to nine for the table. I hope to surpass that number by the time the weekend is here and we head out for Chicago (going to stay with my dad before the con ^^)
*loud screams of joy* I FINISHED IT! I FINISHED THE SET! I finished it for Anime Detour and it got cleaned out. I won’t have the whole set for Anime Central, but I will have some, and if you’re going to the con you can order some from me to have shipped to you :)
ALL OF THE ARCANA INCLUDING THE EXTRAS IN GOLDEN! I DID IT! OMG!
Hello everyone! Sorry I haven’t been doing much writing lately. Anime Detour is only 2 weeks away so its crunch time on getting things done for my table. I thought I’d share some pics of what I’ve been up to.
1. Shin Megami Tensei tarot card coaster set! There’s only 8 more left to woodburn, but the picture shows that I, indeed, have every single card that shows up in Persona 3 and Persona 4 :)
2. Sebastian Michaelish woodburning. For Anime Detour’s charity auction to hopefully be signed by the voice actor and put up for bid. His eyes are painted red because he’s “one hell of a…” yeah you know the saying.
3. Eva unit 01 woodburning. For sale at my table along with a whole bunch of other things.
4. Faye Valentine from Cowboy Bebop. For sale at my table along with a whole bunch of other things.
Also at the table I’ll have business cards for my book, “Treat Me Kindly,” since they came in a week earlier than expected :) I’ll be spending this weekend writing, since I have a short story to look over and edit by Monday. Whee, busy busy busy!
Message from the writing blog on why the heck there hasn’t been much writing lately. Look at them crafts, yo!
OMG! Last woodburning done before the weekend! Cowboy Bebop, man, where do I begin? Despite how many times Cartoon Network has played this (are they still playing it?) I still have so much love for this series. I thought a cool, silhouette of Faye Valentine would be great for a last big woodburning for Anime Detour. If I magically have time left in the next two weeks I might do another big burning, but I doubt that I will, so Faye is the last one for this con :)
Picture one: All finished! White smoke and all!
Picture two: Beginning sketch
Picture three: Woodburned, minus white smoke.
See you in space, cowboy! Or rather, see you at Anime Detour ^^
*exhausted breath* O.K. This is the last progress picture, the next picture will have ALL OF THEM WOODBURNED! But this is ALL of the tarot cards in the arcana for Persona 3 and Persona 4. This includes the extras, like Adachi for example and the face on the back of the cards. There are only 8 more left to burn *happy dance*
This whole set will be at Anime Detour in a couple of weeks :)
Hey guys! Remember this crazy project? It’s almost done! I’m sketching the very last tarot card right now! I hope to have the entire set done by the end of the week :) This set includes the arcana in Arena, in just… well, everything Persona 3 and Persona 4 ^^
I’m debating on whether or not I should have one last card with the image that’s on the back of the cards. This one right here.
The entire set will be at Anime Detour in a few weeks. I think, maaaaybe, whatever sells I want to try and remake for Anime Central. I might change my mind since this entire project has been insane ^^;; The coasters can be purchased individually since I don’t expect anyone to be crazy enough to buy all of them.
Thoughts on having the face as a card to go with it? Thoughts on the project as a whole?
This is how I spent part of my weekend! Anime Detour has a charity auction every year and I try to come up with something to put in it. This year is the first year I thought ahead of time ^^;;; J. Michael Tatum will be at the convention and I thought, “What if I woodburned a big picture of Sebastian? And he signed it?” I’ve been emailing the people in charge of the auction and they like the idea!
The burning is done (yay!) and now all that’s left is to have him sign it. The plan is for it to be signed the night before the convention, so it’ll be autographed when its put in the auction on Friday :)
Along with the finished picture is some progress pictures. This was something I started to do on Saturday and finished about half an hour ago ^^
Picture one: All finished, red eyes and all!
Picture two: The start of the project. The picture is sketched onto the wood in pencil, very lightly, in case I had to erase anything.
Picture three: Penciled in the parts that will be woodburned.
Picture four: Started to woodburn, took a picture to show the difference between the woodburn and pencil :)
Picture five: All the burning is done!
This was fun to do and I’m kind of surprised it didn’t take as long as I thought. My poor little woodburning probably hates me, though ^^;;; If you’re going to Anime Detour, be sure to check this out in the auction!
As always, feel free to check out my Etsy store or my DeviantArt :) I haven’t done too many large woodburnings, so I hope this turned out o.k.?
Thanks to the positive response over the coaster I did I thought, “What goes best with a coaster? A glass!” I use to do glass painting a lot, but then the glass paint I used to use was discontinued, so I stopped. Then, a friend got me some glass stuff for my birthday last year, but the glasses kinda sat around because I couldn’t come up with any ideas for them.
Then Rise of the Guardians came out.
Then I discovered new glass paint.
I’m still testing it out, really, since I’ve never baked it on there before. So in the next two days I’ll know if it actually work/can be washed, ect. I figured it was safe to make Guardians, because if it doesn’t work my partner will keep it. If it does work, well, it’ll be at Anime Detour with the coaster ^^
The glass is hand painted and I actually dipped a pencil in the paint to do the snowflakes, just to try and get the lines done properly ^^ I hope everyone enjoys this new Rise of the Guardians glass and coaster set :)
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