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As some of you may be aware, I worked as a jewelry designer and model maker for a few years after college. This was a personal piece I worked on during my breaks at work...mostly because I had no other setup to be able to do wax carving outside of work. So yes, my break time was mostly spent doing the same thing as my actual work, the only difference being that I owned the designs I did on my off time.
There's plenty of bird-winged pterripi (Pegasus) out there, but I don't know that I've seen any jewelry with bat-winged horses. Also, horse jewelry tends to bug me a lot...most of it honestly just doesn't look very horse-like at all. This pendant was actually designed to be completely 3D (although it doesn't look particularly good facing the other way) and the bail is hidden between the wings. The photo on the right is of the nightmare as I was still working on it, hence the rough look, and that's a US quarter, for size reference. ^_^ (My current favorite quarter, heh)
Ordering info here:
http://www.studiocute.com/scribbles/store/
There's plenty of bird-winged pterripi (Pegasus) out there, but I don't know that I've seen any jewelry with bat-winged horses. Also, horse jewelry tends to bug me a lot...most of it honestly just doesn't look very horse-like at all. This pendant was actually designed to be completely 3D (although it doesn't look particularly good facing the other way) and the bail is hidden between the wings. The photo on the right is of the nightmare as I was still working on it, hence the rough look, and that's a US quarter, for size reference. ^_^ (My current favorite quarter, heh)
Ordering info here:
http://www.studiocute.com/scribbles/store/
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fantasy
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 990 x 468px
File Size 101 kB
This is a very sweet piece, and I could tell right away that it wasn't cast (I had taken a jewelry course in college.) but it is quite gorgeous.
Most furries that go to conventions don't really know the costs of casting and putting things together that way. Have you ever tried going to http://www.etsy.com/ ?
Most furries that go to conventions don't really know the costs of casting and putting things together that way. Have you ever tried going to http://www.etsy.com/ ?
As far as prices go, it's wholly dependent on the price of silver (or gold if I was ever asked to do a special order run) at the time I cast the run and how heavy the pieces are. I don't have any kangaroo items, though.
This green wax is a 'hard' jewelry wax, which cannot be sculpted by fingers. It's brittle compared to what most people think of as 'wax' and more resembles plastic that happens to melt without residue. In my setup I had a foot-operated flexible shaft with swappable drill bits and an assortment of dental tools for carving, and a wax pen for melting areas, sandpaper and orange oil for polishing, etc.
This green wax is a 'hard' jewelry wax, which cannot be sculpted by fingers. It's brittle compared to what most people think of as 'wax' and more resembles plastic that happens to melt without residue. In my setup I had a foot-operated flexible shaft with swappable drill bits and an assortment of dental tools for carving, and a wax pen for melting areas, sandpaper and orange oil for polishing, etc.
Companies manufacture different hardnesses of jeweler's wax to account for different styles of carving/forming, and the formulas are made to be predictable and consistent (a company's green wax is expected to ALWAYS act the same between batches of the same green wax), with few lumps, bubbles, or other variables that would cause problems in professional production.
The colors are not always an indication of industry-wide similarity, though.
The colors are not always an indication of industry-wide similarity, though.
It's a lovely looking pendent none the less. I do have to ask though, the ZigZag and Sabrina work you did. Was Zig done as a pendent and Sab done as a ring? More curious then anything, and trying to figure out if you are the lass I picked both up from is all. Anywho, once again, it is a nice pendent
I actually both your wolf and ZigZag, also I didn't realize how they are made. I honestly am one that wishes you make a limited casting of this one. Because you've got a point, there hardly any pegasus jewelry out there. Let alone a bat winged on, which this actually looks wonderful. I know I'd paid for it no complaining at all.
It's not just an issue of cheaper, but also durability. Like I mentioned above, pewter won't hold the kind of detail I want, and bronze/copper/brass tend to tarnish or corrode. Silver can turn black, but polishes up a lot easier, and of course gold doesn't really tarnish at all. It's like deciding between cheap photocopy paper vs. archival photo paper for art prints, but on a pricier scale.
Well, you already know I'm one of the furry crowd interest in silver(<3 my ZigZag, too) and would purchase this if it popped up on ye etsy one day, but I do have to agree with you: Equine-related jewelry seldom looks like a decent horse.
They all tend to be fluffy horses too, the unicorns, pterripi, the standard earth ponies (MLP terms for today~). I'd squee aloud if I walked into a kitschy jewelry store one day and there was something like a kelpie! Sleipnir! or mythical hippocampus! under the glass, so what I love about this most is how it IS a nightmare. That well designed horse-power with a sinister touch.
And love the fetlock fluff. Great work.
They all tend to be fluffy horses too, the unicorns, pterripi, the standard earth ponies (MLP terms for today~). I'd squee aloud if I walked into a kitschy jewelry store one day and there was something like a kelpie! Sleipnir! or mythical hippocampus! under the glass, so what I love about this most is how it IS a nightmare. That well designed horse-power with a sinister touch.
And love the fetlock fluff. Great work.
Thanks! Actually, I did a few hippocampus designs for my old workplace, but I don't know if they ever used them. Maybe too weird for the tourist crowd. <XD I think those are some of my favorites...especially being a Pisces. Sadly I have a TON of projects I juggle around when I get the creative bug bites, but I have three or four other horse designs that still haven't seen the light of day (just sitting around in wax form).
Perhaps I'll recycle the money from the headbadge commissions I've been doing into a casting run of these guys, finally. Had this wax sitting in a box right under my computer for over a year now...
Also glee someone else who knows the word 'pterippus' XD
Perhaps I'll recycle the money from the headbadge commissions I've been doing into a casting run of these guys, finally. Had this wax sitting in a box right under my computer for over a year now...
Also glee someone else who knows the word 'pterippus' XD
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