I love this little calico cat. It came out almost exactly as I imagined it. The face is cute, the pose is animated and I think the flocking looks pretty good too. She's in scale and I can imagine her in a variety of miniature settings. She's got character. Or at least, I think so!
And sometimes you don't...
Now this little Russian Blue I'm not so happy with. I decided I needed to make some cats for my Artfire shop and you know sometimes when you 'have' to do something, your inner muse rebels. I started off making this russian blue and it just wasn't happening, I let the clay I started with dry out and then added some liquid clay to soften in. I added too much and too soft clay is a nightmare to work with. After scrunching it up a few times I changed over to the calico. But then I came back to this and it still wasn't playing nice. I baked one body, destroyed, baked another and decided to just crack on and see what happened. I got him looking ok, but then stupidly decided to glaze the eyes after I furred him and it got everywhere! I think I've kind of salvaged him. He'll be up at a reduced price anyway, if I do sell him as he's too big for dolls house scale. I thought I'd post since sometimes, things I really like, others don't seem to and something I'm not happy with people like!
There's a lesson in here somewhere, I'm sure.
These are fantastic, I really like both, the first one has the 'wow' factor but the second still has lots of character.
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