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#8 Mosaic Chinchilla

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 Yay!! It's finally done!! This doll sure came out INTERESTING. First off lemme say, I found an xray of a chinchilla and used that to measure and size everything... and I ended up with a doll that looks pretty incorrect compared to my actual chinchillas. xD The tail is too short, the body is too long, the neck is too short and the head is a little small. It looks super cute, but I find it funny that I was aiming for realism and ended up here. I think from now on I'm just going to always make the neck and tail a bit longer than I think it should be! Also, the shorter the neck, the less range of motion it has, so it is better to be too long than too short.

    The other surprise was the face, I had SO MUCH TROUBLE with it. Chins have such shapeless yet oddly specially shaped faces... it looked so wrong, I was thinking about scrapping it, but I decided to go ahead with it. Once I added ears, it looked ok... then I painted it and it turned into a cute chinchilla! After the fur went on it started to look very realistic. So don't give up too early- at least add ears before you decide a face sculpt is no good!


Stash folder of extra photos: sta.sh/21ejar58z2tv
How I made it: fav.me/d92p07m
Features:
    🌟Sculpey Premo! face
    🌟Fully poseable wire armature with weighted butt-ox
    🌟Home tanned rex rabbit fur, from rabbits I lovingly raised myself. Real rabbit whiskers
    🌟Acrylic bead eyes
    🌟Instamorph moldable plastic ears with custom ball and socket joints
    🌟Versimold and copper wire feet
    🌟Signed and dated
Image size
1217x1511px 1.81 MB
Make
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd.
Model
E1075
Shutter Speed
1/133 second
Aperture
F/2.9
Focal Length
6 mm
ISO Speed
80
Date Taken
Jan 11, 2100, 3:07:23 AM
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Daww this pose looks so adorable lol Tbh I think he looks fine 😆 I just viewed it as him having lots of fur so I'd imagine he'd be super soft and warm to cuddle with 😊

I'm glad you decided to stick with his head the way it is. From the other pictures you took of his head it came out really well XD Since this didn't came out exactly like a chinchilla like you planned we can imagine this as being a new variety of chinchilla or even a new species altogether lol

I hope someone likes him at that comic book store 😉 When I went to a comic book store on "free comic book day" I saw a young lady there selling small 3×5 cards of art she made. I didn't know having artists sell their art at comic book stores was so popular xD Go get 'em tiger 🐅 😆