As I get more into Flight Rising and having fun making lore for my clan and all that, I find myself wanting to make more FR themed crafts. I use the vague term "crafts" here because this includes clay figurines, plushies, pins, and more, eventually. After all, if I had a reasonable amount of hobbies, what would I do with my spare time, have a social life?
Anyway, I thought I might as well share some of my creations on the FR forums. Many of these will show the process of creating them, and some will even include tutorials/patterns for those interested. If anyone's looking for a specific type of craft, just search for one of the bolded words above
As I get more into Flight Rising and having fun making lore for my clan and all that, I find myself wanting to make more FR themed crafts. I use the vague term "crafts" here because this includes clay figurines, plushies, pins, and more, eventually. After all, if I had a reasonable amount of hobbies, what would I do with my spare time, have a social life?
Anyway, I thought I might as well share some of my creations on the FR forums. Many of these will show the process of creating them, and some will even include tutorials/patterns for those interested. If anyone's looking for a specific type of craft, just search for one of the bolded words above
[center][size=4][b]Pumpkin Coatl - Figurine[/b][/size]
[columns]I recently gave my friend a tundra dragon because he happened to have the perfect coloring for one of their projects, (though he still needs some genes and a coatl breed change,) and they showed me how cute he'd look as a permababy. Unfortunately this is a breeding project, so Maple here's gotta be an adult, but he still looks cute enough to be the reference for a polymer clay statue.[nextcol][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/882054007697317918/dragon_-_2021-08-28T225859.072.png[/img][/columns]
The first steps were to crumple up some tinfoil in the right shape for the core so that this lil dude is lightweight and not a waste of clay, then wrap clay around him until he looks like a weird cashew, or maybe a leech. He starts actually looking like a coatl in the second picture though, with the addition of a snoot and some nubby legs.[/center]
[center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/882040063846936646/20210829_180438.jpg[/img][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/882040256004771921/20210829_184446.jpg[/img]
Next, I flattened some clay and cut wings out of it, added a few feathers on the head, then added the chest feathers [i]after[/i] all that because I'm a fool. Molding in the face was tricky, but I cleaned it up a bit after I baked it, and before I painted it. (I'd show more but this is image-heavy enough as it is.) For painting I did a base coat of orange, blended in some paler orange, blended in some dark red at the tips of the feathers. Once that was done, I used that red for the lil constellation swirls.
[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/882040690534645790/20210830_001618.jpg[/img]
Then it was time to paint the flaunt primary. I sketched that out with a pencil first, painted the green along that, then blended it into the orange like I did with the paws. Once I'd added all the green, it was time to give this lil dude some really (moderately) on-point eyeliner, then put that eyeliner all over the rest of his body along the green/orange edges of the flaunt gene. Officially one of my new favorite genes.
Adding stars to his constellation was easy, but the fireflies were something else. I wanted them to be 3D in some way, and man, I made a valiant effort. I tried separately baking tiny polymer clay fireflies to glue on, (they fell apart and/or broke off,) I tried cutting out little plastic wings to attach to the pale yellow dots, (those also fell apart,) I even tried gluing on gold loops of string to look like wings. That one failed for obvious reasons. Eventually I gave up and painted them on, moved on to spraying a clear coat over my new pumpkin son, but in one last grasp for victory, I outlined the fireflies in Mod Podge: Dimensional Magic to make them pop out just that little bit. That doesn't show in the photo, but I know, and I relish my miniscule achievement.
[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/882041020907397170/20210830_185554.jpg[/img][/center]
I recently gave my friend a tundra dragon because he happened to have the perfect coloring for one of their projects, (though he still needs some genes and a coatl breed change,) and they showed me how cute he'd look as a permababy. Unfortunately this is a breeding project, so Maple here's gotta be an adult, but he still looks cute enough to be the reference for a polymer clay statue.
The first steps were to crumple up some tinfoil in the right shape for the core so that this lil dude is lightweight and not a waste of clay, then wrap clay around him until he looks like a weird cashew, or maybe a leech. He starts actually looking like a coatl in the second picture though, with the addition of a snoot and some nubby legs.
Next, I flattened some clay and cut wings out of it, added a few feathers on the head, then added the chest feathers after all that because I'm a fool. Molding in the face was tricky, but I cleaned it up a bit after I baked it, and before I painted it. (I'd show more but this is image-heavy enough as it is.) For painting I did a base coat of orange, blended in some paler orange, blended in some dark red at the tips of the feathers. Once that was done, I used that red for the lil constellation swirls.
Then it was time to paint the flaunt primary. I sketched that out with a pencil first, painted the green along that, then blended it into the orange like I did with the paws. Once I'd added all the green, it was time to give this lil dude some really (moderately) on-point eyeliner, then put that eyeliner all over the rest of his body along the green/orange edges of the flaunt gene. Officially one of my new favorite genes.
Adding stars to his constellation was easy, but the fireflies were something else. I wanted them to be 3D in some way, and man, I made a valiant effort. I tried separately baking tiny polymer clay fireflies to glue on, (they fell apart and/or broke off,) I tried cutting out little plastic wings to attach to the pale yellow dots, (those also fell apart,) I even tried gluing on gold loops of string to look like wings. That one failed for obvious reasons. Eventually I gave up and painted them on, moved on to spraying a clear coat over my new pumpkin son, but in one last grasp for victory, I outlined the fireflies in Mod Podge: Dimensional Magic to make them pop out just that little bit. That doesn't show in the photo, but I know, and I relish my miniscule achievement.
[center][b][size=5]Augite Protector - Figurine[/size][/b]
[columns]Full disclosure, the initial goal here was to make the moss-covered golem, but I only remembered that I didn't put the plant on his butt when he was already half baked. This is fine, it works well. I kinda like the black and gold one better anyway, he's got a cool egyptian vibe I couldn't help but reference in my lore. Anyway, I made this cat out of polymer clay and I love him.[nextcol] [img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/886654573824081981/20030.png[/img][/columns][/center]
[columns][color=transparent]___________[/color][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/888844371783467008/20210830_173124_200x150.jpg[/img][nextcol][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/888844376858574938/20210831_111523_200x150.jpg[/img] [/columns]
[center]This time I decided not to show the process of [i]sculpting[/i] the boyo, (and actually size these pictures properly,) just know that I made the head and body separately. The body also has tinfoil core, so he's lighter than he looks. Because the augite protector's tail is just a bunch of floating rocks, I stuck a wire out of his butt and baked some clay chunks onto it. The wire does bend, and his tail is poseable. In the second picture I gave him his augite base coat, and he's ready for details.[/center]
[columns][color=transparent]___________[/color][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/888844374954356807/20210831_115029_200x150.jpg[/img][nextcol][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/888844369157824643/20210901_133107_200x173.jpg[/img] [/columns]
[center]First order of business was to paint the brown bits in, and clean up the black. The eyes are still being left blank so that the black doesn't accidentally show through or anything. Once the brown is looking nice, I painted on some of the gold inlays, but the right picture here doesn't show much of that in favor of flaunting his toe bean. Toe beans are essential.[/center]
[center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/886653986688602122/20210901_114532.jpg[/img]
And, here's the final product! I gave him a pretty clear coat and some fabulous eyeliner, and I'm very proud of how he looks. [emoji=coatl happy size=1][/center]
Full disclosure, the initial goal here was to make the moss-covered golem, but I only remembered that I didn't put the plant on his butt when he was already half baked. This is fine, it works well. I kinda like the black and gold one better anyway, he's got a cool egyptian vibe I couldn't help but reference in my lore. Anyway, I made this cat out of polymer clay and I love him.
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This time I decided not to show the process of sculpting the boyo, (and actually size these pictures properly,) just know that I made the head and body separately. The body also has tinfoil core, so he's lighter than he looks. Because the augite protector's tail is just a bunch of floating rocks, I stuck a wire out of his butt and baked some clay chunks onto it. The wire does bend, and his tail is poseable. In the second picture I gave him his augite base coat, and he's ready for details.
___________
First order of business was to paint the brown bits in, and clean up the black. The eyes are still being left blank so that the black doesn't accidentally show through or anything. Once the brown is looking nice, I painted on some of the gold inlays, but the right picture here doesn't show much of that in favor of flaunting his toe bean. Toe beans are essential.
And, here's the final product! I gave him a pretty clear coat and some fabulous eyeliner, and I'm very proud of how he looks.
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[center][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/886653986688602122/20210901_114532.jpg[/img]
And, here's the final product! I gave him a pretty clear coat and some fabulous eyeliner, and I'm very proud of how he looks. [emoji=coatl happy size=1][/center]
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This is so cute I screamed
And, here's the final product! I gave him a pretty clear coat and some fabulous eyeliner, and I'm very proud of how he looks.
This is so cute I screamed
[center][b][size=4]Starwood Strand Journal - Book[/size][/b]
Yep, that's right, we doing bookbinding now. I know I'm posting this during the Riot of Rot, but I made this over the course of a couple weeks around the time of the Starfall Celebration, and with college attempting to kill me I'm only getting around to posting anything now. What can I say, I'm no amateur-crastinator.
Also @Mabogoi & @NoonAlt I apologize for the ping/not responding for a hot minute but thank you so much!! (I'm still figuring out forum etiquette so I'm not sure what format to respond in, and this is almost certainly the wrong answer but it's been too long already i am so sorry)
Now, to get down to business, binding the book itself was surprisingly easy. I just had to cut out a bunch of pieces of old brown paper bags (for the ~aesthetic~) that were double the size of the pages, then fold them in half. After grouping those into fours, I sewed those pages together in the left picture, then sewed those groups together in the middle picture. Next, for the cover and spine, I cut out pieces of cardboard slightly larger than the page size, using cardboard from a pizza box for that delicious stale grease smell. (I'm kidding, the cardboard was clean.) Elmer's glue worked well to attach the covers, but the spine required a hearty slathering of hot glue to cover the hot mess that is the binding.[/center]
[columns][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902357574664470568/111_200x268.jpg[/img][nextcol][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902357584571416576/222_200x268.jpg[/img][nextcol][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902357630410948668/333_200x268.jpg[/img][/columns]
[center]Voila, that's the book part done. If I really enjoyed the aesthetic of Domino's Pizza, I could stop here, however it [s]is[/s] was the Starfall Celebration, and I am not sponsored by Domino's Pizza. The front cover was totally inspired by the Arcanist's Domain scene, it's so pretty and I love it, so in order to create the trees, I resorted to paper mache and slathered some twisty paper towels in some glue water before attaching them to the slightly sanded cardboard. Then I cut out a couple pieces of cardboard for those rocks, and hot glued them down over the bases of the trees, to try and avoid them looking too weird.
Finally, the painting can commence. First I laid down a coat of white primer, then started painting the sky. The magic begins to happen when I add in the glowy blue leaves in the background; that is where it's at, my dudes. Right after that, I can start painting the trees with that weird purply-gray color they have, and start adding some color to the rocks and some non-glowy plant life in the undergrowth. The best part of this was getting to add the stars and the pink runes, because the arcane folks have an absolutely fabulous aesthetic.[/center]
[columns][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902357633271463956/444_200x268.jpg[/img][nextcol][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902357635293134898/555_200x268.jpg[/img][nextcol][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902357637675507753/666_200x268.jpg[/img][/columns]
[center]The worst part, however, was realizing after this that I had [i]completely forgotten about the back cover.[/i]
After a bit, I decided to paint the observatory surrounded by its giant pink crystals, and cut out the necessary cardboard pieces. The sky was easy enough, make a darkish-light blue gradient and blend the clouds to heck and back. The observatory was a little more difficult, but using the World Map as a reference, I think I managed without going nuts on the details. Next, I started painting in the floating islands and the pink crystals, and did the water. Painting water is always a gigantic pain. Anyone who says otherwise is either some sort of demigod, or lying. I didn't get a photo of the final touches to the painting, but you'll see in the final product.[/center]
[columns][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902357639651004446/777_200x268.jpg[/img][nextcol][img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902357641345523812/888_200x268.jpg[/img][nextcol]
curse you, bbcode, for making columns so hard to center. anyway, here's the scene reference.
[item=scene: Arcanist's Domain][/columns]
[center]Finally, once both covers were painted, I got to make them nice and shiny and add the fabric edges! Can't just have corrugated cardboard edges, that'd look terrible, and I had such sparkly fabric. At some point during this post you may have wondered, "hey idiot, you forgot the leaves on the front cover." Well, I assure you, I did not. Once everything was clear-coated and binded, I cut out some pale blue fabric leaves, and sprayed them with blue glow-in-the-dark spray paint before gluing them onto the trees. Heck yeah, this thing glows in the dark, and I love it. Happy late Starfall everyone!
[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/880171828415447043/902358092988153886/final.jpg[/img][/center]
Yep, that's right, we doing bookbinding now. I know I'm posting this during the Riot of Rot, but I made this over the course of a couple weeks around the time of the Starfall Celebration, and with college attempting to kill me I'm only getting around to posting anything now. What can I say, I'm no amateur-crastinator.
Also @Mabogoi & @NoonAlt I apologize for the ping/not responding for a hot minute but thank you so much!! (I'm still figuring out forum etiquette so I'm not sure what format to respond in, and this is almost certainly the wrong answer but it's been too long already i am so sorry)
Now, to get down to business, binding the book itself was surprisingly easy. I just had to cut out a bunch of pieces of old brown paper bags (for the ~aesthetic~) that were double the size of the pages, then fold them in half. After grouping those into fours, I sewed those pages together in the left picture, then sewed those groups together in the middle picture. Next, for the cover and spine, I cut out pieces of cardboard slightly larger than the page size, using cardboard from a pizza box for that delicious stale grease smell. (I'm kidding, the cardboard was clean.) Elmer's glue worked well to attach the covers, but the spine required a hearty slathering of hot glue to cover the hot mess that is the binding.
Voila, that's the book part done. If I really enjoyed the aesthetic of Domino's Pizza, I could stop here, however it is was the Starfall Celebration, and I am not sponsored by Domino's Pizza. The front cover was totally inspired by the Arcanist's Domain scene, it's so pretty and I love it, so in order to create the trees, I resorted to paper mache and slathered some twisty paper towels in some glue water before attaching them to the slightly sanded cardboard. Then I cut out a couple pieces of cardboard for those rocks, and hot glued them down over the bases of the trees, to try and avoid them looking too weird.
Finally, the painting can commence. First I laid down a coat of white primer, then started painting the sky. The magic begins to happen when I add in the glowy blue leaves in the background; that is where it's at, my dudes. Right after that, I can start painting the trees with that weird purply-gray color they have, and start adding some color to the rocks and some non-glowy plant life in the undergrowth. The best part of this was getting to add the stars and the pink runes, because the arcane folks have an absolutely fabulous aesthetic.
The worst part, however, was realizing after this that I had completely forgotten about the back cover.
After a bit, I decided to paint the observatory surrounded by its giant pink crystals, and cut out the necessary cardboard pieces. The sky was easy enough, make a darkish-light blue gradient and blend the clouds to heck and back. The observatory was a little more difficult, but using the World Map as a reference, I think I managed without going nuts on the details. Next, I started painting in the floating islands and the pink crystals, and did the water. Painting water is always a gigantic pain. Anyone who says otherwise is either some sort of demigod, or lying. I didn't get a photo of the final touches to the painting, but you'll see in the final product.
curse you, bbcode, for making columns so hard to center. anyway, here's the scene reference.
Scene: Arcanist's Domain
Scene
Scenes are colorful backdrops that can be equipped to a dragon to further customize their individual profile. (Starfall Celebration 2020 Holiday Item)
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Finally, once both covers were painted, I got to make them nice and shiny and add the fabric edges! Can't just have corrugated cardboard edges, that'd look terrible, and I had such sparkly fabric. At some point during this post you may have wondered, "hey idiot, you forgot the leaves on the front cover." Well, I assure you, I did not. Once everything was clear-coated and binded, I cut out some pale blue fabric leaves, and sprayed them with blue glow-in-the-dark spray paint before gluing them onto the trees. Heck yeah, this thing glows in the dark, and I love it. Happy late Starfall everyone!
