
Border collie fox cross
Here he is! All finished at last, and I totally love how he came out. He's going in the mail off to his new owner tomorrow and I'm almost sad. He sort of fits me even (that's me under the suit there) except that my hips are too big, on account of me being female.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / Fursuit
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 800 x 600px
File Size 77.8 kB
It's Montery Mills fox fur. The black and the white were very easy to find. The rust red was actually a custom order, the story behind which is a bit of a saga, really. You can't get the stuff anywhere right now, sadly. Unless you want to custom order some yourself, which requires $4000 or so and a place to store 300 yards of very bulky fabric. It ate my entire living room at the time. But I'm running low on it now, I sold off most to other costumers.
I just started carving the foam for my fursuit head (I'm making my first one).
I'm already thinking ahead to the furring and I came up with a bit of a snag that I hadn't thought of before.
My character has hair (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/521031/), and I was thinking about getting a wig, but I wasn't quite sure how I was going to attach it and still have it look like it was naturally part of the head.
Did you fur the whole head and then attach the "hair" or what?
... any tips?
I'm already thinking ahead to the furring and I came up with a bit of a snag that I hadn't thought of before.
My character has hair (http://www.furaffinity.net/view/521031/), and I was thinking about getting a wig, but I wasn't quite sure how I was going to attach it and still have it look like it was naturally part of the head.
Did you fur the whole head and then attach the "hair" or what?
... any tips?
I use a wig, and I don't fur under where the wig goes. Basically when I'm doing a head that's going to have hair on, I don't make a back of the head at all, I just leave it open, and finish and fur the head back to the hairline. Then I sew the wig onto it. And then unless it's a very thick and long wig I generally have to add neckflaps to the wig around the sides and back. I generally have to cut out holes in the wig and sew the ears on too, of course, which I do before I attach the wig to the head.
It's not unusual commissions, it's the guy who ended up sending me 40 pages total of stuff about every tiny detail of what he wanted before I finally got the suit done, (he messaged me with something new he wanted nearly every day) but never did mention that he hates velcro, and wanted me to redo the body because I'd used velcro. It was a pretty normal suit, but the person was a pain in the butt to deal with.
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