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More pics below!

Considering the amount of photos I put in, I think I'll put them in separate post progress pics of my boy (found here!). It feels so nice to finally have him finished; he ended up taking two whole semesters to finish, mostly because there were multiple things I redid on him and finicky small bits and bobs (the fucking EARRINGS and why yes, they ARE movable!) plus, generally being really busy with uni and part time work on top of this and working on other hobbies because why have one and actually finish projects on a decent timeline. Don't ask me how long this took because I don't want to think about that; there were certainly a few days where I spent most of it working on him (while watching one piece of course), not to mention all the odd hours I spent on the evening to late night also working on him. I think I was just starting thriller bark when I started him and now am near the end of dressrosa... Which is a good number of episodes later. Labour of love and all that. Nevertheless, here he is!

#one piece zoro #roronoa zoro #op zoro #anthro #furry #furry art #zoro figure #op figure #op fanart #one piece #tiger zoro #hugin scribbles #hugin sculpts #ace is next... another large cat oops #so it goes #quite happy in the end with how he turned out #also. hehe. toebeans >:3 #also if youre like why not a video. BECAUSE it is inelegabt. or something idk i didnt wanna do a video ok #mornin' reblog

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Zoro 🐯 Process:

Commentary below:

Notes:

One of the first attempts at sculpting the boy; the head was later altered quite a bit and the legs entirely scrapped, and the torso bulked up shaking my shoulders feverishly: we need to properly represent his 110 cm bust and what we have isn't cutting it. Scabbards were made (which survived till the end!) and the original clay swords were made by this point.

New torso and legs give (hallelujah), as well as the loops and holes for the ears (such finicky small work, fuck me) were made. Holes were first made with straight wire and dried before the hoops were gently (and with swearing) inserted through.

Clothes added, also with swearing as the clay dried and stiffened faster then I wanted to and made it hard to get nice folds. Scarf was re-made and smoothed later.

Scabbards added! Immediately drops it and breaks a piece of it off. I've glued multiple bits of the scabbards back on the flimsy bastards. He remained armless for a good while. A Venus on the shelf by my desk...

Because the clay sword (after a good hour of tender focused work) would IMMEDIATELY would break upon the lightest touch, annoying me to no end, one evening was like God I wish I had actual metal to use instead wouldn't that be cool, and then was like OH! I COULD DO THAT! So the metal is actually cut from the tin of a cat food can, straightened and sanded., as seen in photo!

The blades hilted, before placed in capable hands

ARMS! and the sculpting is finished. Onto painting!

First layers of paint on various parts; I generally paint via colours I'm using at the moment (ie, greens in this instance)

More layers laid down. I generally go for shading in rules of three (main colour, lighter, and darker hues) and apply them at different opacity of acrylic. Adjusted the green since I found it too pungent. Once the fur tones were finished I gave him his stripes (cue me searching up loads of photos of tigers and tiger fursonas to see how people have done the stripes. Did you know depending on the area they are from they have different face shapes and stripe patterns? Fascinating stuff)

Finished project! Last layers, and highlights where added, adjusted the eye and fuck-ups re-adjusted. Dropped and had to reglue things. The gold is actual gold leaf I applied using a glue you paint on but that was a bit of a whole mess and took a long time, and doesn't go on very flat on very not-flat surfaces... (Who would have thought...) In the future may instead use gold paints for metallics.

Here's also the link to the post of more photos of him finished!

#mornin' reblog #one piece zoro #roronoa zoro #zoro #op zoro #zoro figure #op figures #hugin scribbles #hugin sculpts #hugin wip #op fanart #one piece #furry art #anthro #furry #tiger zoro #not sure if people find this interesting but i do so. BEHOLD MY PROCESS #i have like zero knowledge on actual sculpting of figures. i just do it and go well. sure that works #should watch some doll making vids or something to pick up better techniques. hm #theres something so clean and nice about the non+painted versions. pure #god when i firsy put down the green i was like. oh this looks SO much like someones unrealistic lime green tiger fursona #muting the tones a bit helped with that. and the stripes #was a bit annoyed with the stripes at first cause i was like oh no thats too realistic but i think it looks good that way #not pictured is me swearing while working on his fucking earrings #theyre brass wire with the caly and holy shit the clay is so finicky when its that small. the length of time it took to do them. #did them like three times separately and then also LOST ONE and then had to also apply the adhesive for the gold foil and the gold foil #never again for something that small. #but at the same time oooo fuck yeah onto the next project. that hopefully WONT take me like 8 fucking months

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More pics below!

Considering the amount of photos I put in, I think I'll put them in separate post progress pics of my boy (found here!). It feels so nice to finally have him finished; he ended up taking two whole semesters to finish, mostly because there were multiple things I redid on him and finicky small bits and bobs (the fucking EARRINGS and why yes, they ARE movable!) plus, generally being really busy with uni and part time work on top of this and working on other hobbies because why have one and actually finish projects on a decent timeline. Don't ask me how long this took because I don't want to think about that; there were certainly a few days where I spent most of it working on him (while watching one piece of course), not to mention all the odd hours I spent on the evening to late night also working on him. I think I was just starting thriller bark when I started him and now am near the end of dressrosa... Which is a good number of episodes later. Labour of love and all that. Nevertheless, here he is!

#one piece zoro #roronoa zoro #op zoro #anthro #furry #furry art #zoro figure #op figure #op fanart #one piece #tiger zoro #hugin scribbles #hugin sculpts #ace is next... another large cat oops #so it goes #quite happy in the end with how he turned out #also. hehe. toebeans >:3 #also if youre like why not a video. BECAUSE it is inelegabt. or something idk i didnt wanna do a video ok

[blae-kitta]

Zoro 🐯 Process:

Commentary below:

Notes:

One of the first attempts at sculpting the boy; the head was later altered quite a bit and the legs entirely scrapped, and the torso bulked up shaking my shoulders feverishly: we need to properly represent his 110 cm bust and what we have isn't cutting it. Scabbards were made (which survived till the end!) and the original clay swords were made by this point.

New torso and legs give (hallelujah), as well as the loops and holes for the ears (such finicky small work, fuck me) were made. Holes were first made with straight wire and dried before the hoops were gently (and with swearing) inserted through.

Clothes added, also with swearing as the clay dried and stiffened faster then I wanted to and made it hard to get nice folds. Scarf was re-made and smoothed later.

Scabbards added! Immediately drops it and breaks a piece of it off. I've glued multiple bits of the scabbards back on the flimsy bastards. He remained armless for a good while. A Venus on the shelf by my desk...

Because the clay sword (after a good hour of tender focused work) would IMMEDIATELY would break upon the lightest touch, annoying me to no end, one evening was like God I wish I had actual metal to use instead wouldn't that be cool, and then was like OH! I COULD DO THAT! So the metal is actually cut from the tin of a cat food can, straightened and sanded., as seen in photo!

The blades hilted, before placed in capable hands

ARMS! and the sculpting is finished. Onto painting!

First layers of paint on various parts; I generally paint via colours I'm using at the moment (ie, greens in this instance)

More layers laid down. I generally go for shading in rules of three (main colour, lighter, and darker hues) and apply them at different opacity of acrylic. Adjusted the green since I found it too pungent. Once the fur tones were finished I gave him his stripes (cue me searching up loads of photos of tigers and tiger fursonas to see how people have done the stripes. Did you know depending on the area they are from they have different face shapes and stripe patterns? Fascinating stuff)

Finished project! Last layers, and highlights where added, adjusted the eye and fuck-ups re-adjusted. Dropped and had to reglue things. The gold is actual gold leaf I applied using a glue you paint on but that was a bit of a whole mess and took a long time, and doesn't go on very flat on very not-flat surfaces... (Who would have thought...) In the future may instead use gold paints for metallics.

Here's also the link to the post of more photos of him finished!

#one piece zoro #roronoa zoro #zoro #op zoro #zoro figure #op figures #hugin scribbles #hugin sculpts #hugin wip #op fanart #one piece #furry art #anthro #furry #tiger zoro #not sure if people find this interesting but i do so. BEHOLD MY PROCESS #i have like zero knowledge on actual sculpting of figures. i just do it and go well. sure that works #should watch some doll making vids or something to pick up better techniques. hm #theres something so clean and nice about the non+painted versions. pure #god when i firsy put down the green i was like. oh this looks SO much like someones unrealistic lime green tiger fursona #muting the tones a bit helped with that. and the stripes #was a bit annoyed with the stripes at first cause i was like oh no thats too realistic but i think it looks good that way #not pictured is me swearing while working on his fucking earrings #theyre brass wire with the caly and holy shit the clay is so finicky when its that small. the length of time it took to do them. #did them like three times separately and then also LOST ONE and then had to also apply the adhesive for the gold foil and the gold foil #never again for something that small. #but at the same time oooo fuck yeah onto the next project. that hopefully WONT take me like 8 fucking months

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ATTENTION ARTISTS OF TUMBLR

since tumblr is going to start scraping blogs to train ai be sure to glaze and nightshade your art!! Not only will both of these programs protect your art from being copied but nightshade also poisons any ai that tries to steal it

here is some more info on these tools and where you can download them:

Nightshade: Protecting Copyright (uchicago.edu)

Nightshade: Downloads (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - What is Glaze (uchicago.edu)

Glaze - Downloads (uchicago.edu)

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Tumblr is doing some stupid AI shit so go to blog settings > Visibility > Prevent third-party sharing.

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Hi!!! Do you sell prints!!!!!!???? I love your Mushishi paintings so much!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi! Thank you so much for the ask and the compliment, that's super flattering!!! 💕🥺 The unfortunate response is that I don't sell prints right now; I'd like to eventually, but I'm just too busy to a) make enough art to warrant setting a store up and b) even have time to set up a store. Usually come summer I have more free time, but we'll see.

I do intend to do more mushishi paintings though! So keep an eye out, and if I ever do eventually sell prints, they would definitely be up :)

#kitta answers #asks #hugin answers

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What is this about the tumblr staff wanting to sell art data to midjourney?

An ex-colleague of mine mentioned yesterday that there may be contacts between Automattic and midjourney in that direction, but nothing is public yet and I don't have any more info. They probably won't have anything specific to share either, since they left the company weeks ago too. That being said:

I have no reason to doubt my ex-coworker word, they are a trustworthy person.

Tumblr's CEO has been absurdly enthusiastic (comically, even) about AI, and is a big fan of LLMs and 'AI' companies.

A deal with midjourney could solve tumblr financial issues (not the same company, but openAi is paying up to 5 million/year to news companies to use their content as training data... tumblr generates several orders of magnitude more content than any newspaper or any media company and it only would need a 20 to 30 million per year deal to be profitable)

So I don't have any extra info yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.

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Another mushishi ukiyoe inspired watercolour and ink piece. This one was based off of Sacred Bridge at Nikko by Ito Yuhan.

Wip photos below the cut

Thought I had a pencil photo as well, but looks like I rather forgot to take one, huh.

#next evening reblog #mushishi #mushishi ginko #ukiyoe #ukiyo e #ginko #ginko from mushishi #hugin scribbles #watercolour #watercolor #watercolour painting #watercolor painting #mushishi fanart

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Another mushishi ukiyoe inspired watercolour and ink piece. This one was based off of Sacred Bridge at Nikko by Ito Yuhan.

Wip photos below the cut

Thought I had a pencil photo as well, but looks like I rather forgot to take one, huh.

#mushishi #mushishi ginko #ukiyoe #ukiyo e #ginko #ginko from mushishi #hugin scribbles #watercolour #watercolor #watercolour painting #watercolor painting #mushishi fanart

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Since people seem to have found and liked my one piece figures, I thought it would be fun to let anyone whose following me know that I'm nearly finished sculpting a tiger zoro figure! Here is two WIP photos.

There's also a lot more one piece anthro/furry figures that I have planned but I'm unfortunately generally really busy, so it's a bit like pulling teeth to find time to work on art.

#hugin scribbles #hugin wip #roronoa zoro #zoro one piece #one piece zoro #i wanna do figures of Ace Kid and Law i think next. maybe jinbei but jinbei would just be. jinbei since hes basically an anthro anyways... #mihawk is also on the list #im leaning to ace next since just finished marineford a couple weeks ago and i bought beads to use for his necklace #but he would be a black panther which is. another big cat... #and itd be nice to have some variety... especially since law is gonna be a snow leopard #so maybe ace next and then Kidd since hes gonna be a dragon? or kidd next since then itd be a different critter... mihawk woukd definitely #be a hawk obvs #im also tempted to do robin because how can i not do one of the ladies and i was like holy shit. her first outfit would be so cool #also. realized i could scultp boobs and my mind short circuited. i need to do that at somepoint. how could i not sculpt boobs #also me being torn about giving the characters even more paunch and softness. #i actually hate the one piece big figures ngl since im like holy fuck they are so dehydrated looking SIR PLEASE DRINK WATER 😭 #like thats not... attractive at all #also why yes. i do have one piece on in the background while im working on my pieces a lot of the time!!!! #by tomorrow i shoukd finish the sculpting and can begin painting i think ill also be using some gold foiling which excites me to no end haha

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Mushishi watercolour based off of the ukiyoe print Dusk at Tagonoura Beach by Kawase Hasui; was originally gonna do it for Mushishi week this year and proceeded to not finish, let alone begin the art during the week...

I wanna do more Mushishi ukiyoe prints since it was fun to do, but we'll see what happens

In-progress pics below cut:

#self reblog #mushishi #mushishi fanart #mushishi week #mushishi ginko #ginko #ukiyoe #hugin scribbles #watercolor #watercolour #mushishi week 2023 #but like extremely late oops

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Mushishi watercolour based off of the ukiyoe print Dusk at Tagonoura Beach by Kawase Hasui; was originally gonna do it for Mushishi week this year and proceeded to not finish, let alone begin the art during the week...

I wanna do more Mushishi ukiyoe prints since it was fun to do, but we'll see what happens

photo id description here by fannishmagpie

In-progress pics below cut:

#mushishi #mushishi fanart #mushishi week #mushishi ginko #ginko #ukiyoe #hugin scribbles #watercolor #watercolour #mushishi week 2023 #but like extremely late oops

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One piece smoker anthro figure as a wolf. Only after finishing I discovered he has an outfit without his jacket and wearing a leather halter for his jitte and I was outraged since I could have done that instead (totally for ease of details for the coat).

Progress pics below

#timezone reblog #hugin scribbles #one piece #op fanart #smoker op #smoker one piece #sculpting #anthro #somewhat furry? #first time doing an upright figure and god legs are such bastards #also trying to get his jitte straight made me wanna bite someone #also sat there for a moment staring at his abs and pecs when i finished #handrolling the cigars was annoying as hell like sir please why do you need all of them. your outfit is ridiculous

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One piece smoker anthro figure as a wolf. Only after finishing I discovered he has an outfit without his jacket and wearing a leather halter for his jitte and I was outraged since I could have done that instead (totally for ease of details for the coat).

Progress pics below

#hugin scribbles #one piece #op fanart #smoker op #smoker one piece #sculpting #anthro #somewhat furry? #first time doing an upright figure and god legs are such bastards #also trying to get his jitte straight made me wanna bite someone #also sat there for a moment staring at his abs and pecs when i finished #handrolling the cigars was annoying as hell like sir please why do you need all of them. your outfit is ridiculous

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Saw a fanart of Crocodile as, well, a crocodile, and was IMMEDIATELY then possessed by the need to create a small air-dry clay figure of crocodile as his namesake in his iconic outfit (nearly put a banana on his head like his beloved bananadiles and then didnt because I'm a coward). The clay I used (DAS air dry, paper based) isn't my favourite compared to other earthen based ones I've used before (critterclay...), but I still got the hang of using it anyhow. There's really something all consuming about sculpting things.

WIP pics below

#crocodile op #crocodile one piece #crocodile op fanart #hugin scribbles #one peice #op fanart #i like how his name is. just. crocodile like ok i guess then #idk what it is about sculpting and once i finish a figure i feel all powerful like. I CAN CREATE ANYTHING. it goes straight to my head #i fall in love with all my lil figures ive created ngl #also was like im gonna be soooo normal about liking crocodile as a character and then i was like yeah jk im making a lil minifig for my des #the learning how to make figures is a result of me coming back from japan to finally get into op and going fucking shit i should have bough #myself some op merch when i was there but alas #instead i spend hours painting and sculpting and i enjoy that actually. op is of course obligatorily on in the background while working #self reblog