| ATTENTION FRIENDS! |
[15 Nov 2007|02:46pm] |
Okay Everybody!
I am really, actually, finally going to start using my new lj account exclusively.
SO,
If you want to see my posts you should add ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) scruffers to your friends list. I will be adding pretty much everybody that's on my list right now shortly, unless... i don't know who you are XD If you want to be added, just drop me a comment.
I will be posting all fursuit stuff publicly, and other miscellaneous or personal stuff friends only. Also i now have an AIM screen name which i will log onto occasionally to talk about fursuit/costume construction stuff (NOT fursuit commission stuff, that's what e-mail is for), and also just to chat with you fine folk :3 So add FelisScruffius to your buddy list if you want to chat sometime.
This journal will self destruct soon, but i will leave this post up for a while to re-direct people to my new account. Hope to see you all there!
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| OC is Burning... |
[23 Oct 2007|01:31pm] |
Shit dudes... there's fire all around us. We seem to be in a safe spot for now, and there's federal help on the way, but there is deffinetly an enormous wildfire mere miles from us right now. The news keeps telling us to not breath the air O.o but we haven't been evacuated like a lot of people in the area.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/fire-canyon-blaze-1902172-santiago-road
It's a bonfire of the vanities! Keep your fingers crossed for us!
p.s. More fursuit stuff soon, I promise! New home + full time job = less time for costumes, but i've got a couple projects i'm working through, like: bad-ass 6-fingered monster paws, another pair of black feathered wings, mechanism mock-ups galore, and the purple dragon has a ways to go but the end is in sight.
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| The (job) hunt is on... |
[02 Sep 2007|11:56pm] |
Been turning in applications all week, i have an interview tomorrow at Deidrich's Coffee, and i'm pretty sure i'm a shoe-in :D (they just lost like 3 people, the rest of their staff is in high school, and i've got 4 years experience making coffee and want about 30-40 hours a week)
I also turned in an application at a Micheal's and it also sounded like i had a good shot at getting hired there, 'cause the manager had a big lesbian crush on me XD That'll depend more on what kind of hours Diedrich's wants to give me and/or what kind of employee discount they offer at Micheal's (ummm... discounts on almost everything i need to make fursuits except the fur? Yes plz!)
I'll let y'all know how this goes after my interview tomorrow *crosses fingers* c'mon steady paycheck!
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| New username... |
[28 Aug 2007|05:56pm] |
So i'm going to change my lj username shortly so as to solidify my new online handle (Scruffy) and make it easier to recognize me from my other online galleries, like DA and FA. Plus I'm just way past due for a revamp of everything (including my fursuit building techniques, but more on that later).
What i want to know is what my new username should be! My standard 'ScruffyAlleyCat' has been taken on lj along with most permutations of regular old 'Scruffy' so i need help deciding what the new one should be. I came up with these (which are available):
-Felius_Scruffius
-Scruffers
-Scruffy_Stuff
I'm leaning towards the first two, what do you guys think? I'm hoping that it will be relatively recognizable as me. Any other ideas?
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| I MADE IT OUT OF KANSAS! |
[21 Aug 2007|07:23pm] |
So a lot in my life has changed this last month. Me and Max moved halfway across the country, which is a really huge step for both of us. Max spent one year in Dallas, but other than that, we've lived our whole lives in Kansas... and we've come to the conclusion... that we fucking hate Kansas... But we LOVE California so far! :D
and now to sum up everything else which has happened in a list:
-Holy Shite! I have a freaking degree! Anybody wanna hire a ceramic sculptor? >.>;
-Guitar Hero is my new favorite game, but it's giving me carpal tunnel syndrome.
-8D HarryPotterHarryPotterHarryPotter!!! <3
-Max and i may be the ONLY grungy dykes in all of Orange County. People have no idea what to make of us XD
-The FOOD!!! OMG, you guys... i... i didn't know...
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expect an official post for this head (along with a plea for comissions XD) in the fursuit community this week!
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| Introducing Scruffy!!! |
[23 Jul 2007|04:51pm] |
Been a while since i've updated, but I finally have some art done and scanned for my new character! This is the design for Scruffy:
there's a little more art, and a preview of my latest fursuit project, which will have to be done later than expected, because of all the stuff there is to get done for the move.
( a peek at the purple dragon and Scruffy's ref )
Oh, and if you or anyone you know needs fursuit supplies, please check out my post in fursuitauctions, i'm ditching a ton of stuff. Now back to packing!
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| if you like minimalism.... |
[26 Jun 2007|04:47pm] |
... you're gonna love this band...
this is my new favorite song, i've been playing it over and over again in my head. these guys are fucking amazing, just listen to that one line develop... the band is called 'battles' the song is titled 'atlas' the album is titled 'mirrored' and it's all about reflection, repetition, and distortion. you can see how they simultaneously play and synthesize their instruments... amazing...
i get to see these guys in KC on the 10th in a tiny little bar. holy fucking shit i can't wait.
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[20 Jun 2007|03:55pm] |
alright, as promised i am posting up the 'furry' mix i put together some time ago. this is very loosely furry themed, some of the songs just have vauge associations with animals, (double points if the name of the artist included animals somehow) i didn't want to get so wrapped up in the theme that it turned out to be a crappy mix, so i took generous theme liberties.
that's the cover, and i drew pencil sketches for each track. i'm still working on/need to scan a couple sketches for some of the tracks, so i'll post some of my favorites now, and the rest later.
( tracklist and more cover art )
i will totally send out copies of this. probably throw some other goodies or doodles in with it too :3 if anyone is interested, you can e-mail me shipping information here: shadowcat_productions@yahoo.com
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| no, i'm not dead.... |
[01 Jun 2007|10:51am] |
Well, my internet connection is FINALLY back up but there's no telling for how long. Also school ate my life for a while there but hey, 3 more credit hours this summer and i'll have a degree :O crazy...
I guess I've been out of the loop for a couple months, as I've been taking some seriously labor intensive classes. So between no internet, casting iron, and sleeping I haven't made it to lj much, nor have I had the time to do much work on fursuit projects. Finals are over though, so I have finally gotten started on the dragon. Pictures up when things begin to take shape, in the meantime here's the concept art for it that i drew before school took over:
( design for my upcoming project )
Also, here's the drawing i promised darkbloodwyvern like a million years ago: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d84/catdyke/doodles/img041.jpg http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d84/catdyke/doodles/ahzzieicon.jpg Thanks for letting me draw your character! Sorry it took so long to get it back to you.
I've got a huge backlog of stuff (mostly drawings, and a furry music mix!) I'm gonna try to post over the next couple weeks, also I'm contemplating a character re-design for myself, but more later. Hoping to be around a bit more. :)
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| a few points of buisness |
[23 Apr 2007|12:50pm] |
My internet is down again, so i have to post from campus, but here's just a few things i've wanted to post up this week:
~I've decided to change my handle to 'Scruffy' for several reasons. first, there's already a (well established and way better) fursuit builder on lj who uses the handle 'shadow' and i'd rather not create confusion. Also i picked the name 'catdyke' for reasons which no longer really suit me, and i'd like to consolidate my username and my character's name. Scruffy just fits me much better anyhow, and i don't know of any other fursuit makers who use that name. So i'm beginning the process of setting up a new journal, and re-introducing myself and my character. May take a while to fully materialize, but i hope to have everything re-set around the time we get moved in to our new place in California.
~Shipped out my first head commission this weekend :D here's a sneak peek at the (low-tech) 'airbrushing.' I'll probably post to the crit community sometime since they helped out so much. I love the way it finished the look of it, i'm so happy with this project :)
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d84/catdyke/fursuits/100_0709.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d84/catdyke/fursuits/100_0710.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d84/catdyke/fursuits/100_0711.jpg
http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d84/catdyke/fursuits/100_0712.jpg
~synchra, your doodles and stuff got mailed this weekend too!!! they should reach you soon :3
~I have the design for the dragon i plan to build next finalized and scanned, as soon as i can get it to the internet i'll post it here. The same goes for the drawing i did for darkbloodwyvern of "ahzzie" her demon character. I'll send it out to ya as soon as i either get the internet back or get it on a flash drive and up to campus.
I think that's it, i'll do my best to catch up with everybody whenever we disconnect our crappy unreliable community-run internet server, and go crawling back to the corporate server we had before who will be sure to gouge us silly with re-connect fees... woo-hoo!
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[09 Apr 2007|07:34pm] |
i've been meaning to post doodles for a while but i can't find one of my sketchbooks anywhere! it has most of the furry cartoons i draw so i don't have a lot of the ones i hoped to put up, but for now, here's the stuff i alread had scanned
( icon fodder )
( new fursuit designs )
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| internet still sucks >:O also stuff i've been up to |
[15 Mar 2007|01:20pm] |
*sigh* Perhaps i spoke too soon about our internet getting fixed, as it's still been a bitch and a half lately. Taking forever to load pages and then usually cutting out every 10 minutes or so. It took me 30 minutes just to post a stupid comment on myspace earlier! So that's why i've been so quiet lately, half the time i get comments all written out, and then the net crashes before i can post 'em. It seems to be behaving for now though, so i thought i'd do a quick update on stuff i've been doing/planning.
Fursuit projects:
Finally finishing up the yellow head commissioned by spiritwolven i'll get pictures up once the neck and zipper are done being attatched. As for new projects, i've been doing more drawing than building, because school has been kicking my ass this semester, and that's about all i've been able to work on. I've got a ton of long pile purple fur, and a fair bit of black along with assorted scraps.
I'd been planning on making it into a maine-coon (long haired tabby cat) and i built a foam frame for it, (pictures soon) but since max and i are moving to L.A. in august, i really need to make sure that i can sell it fairly quickly so we don't have to haul it across the country with the rest of our stuff. SO, i'm thinking about doing a dragon instead, as i think a purple dragon would sell better than a purple cat. Gonna take a crack at some more dragon-ey bat-like wings this time around.
Drawing:
Been doing lots and lots of it. Gonna post it soon. Internet too stupid to get me that far on photobucket yet. I think i've been improving, need to start doing some serious work on my outlining, and get some better pens for linework.
Fursuit concept sketches will be up soon too. I have at least three ideas i've been working on to do after the dragon. Not sure which one will materialize first though.
Those of you who i made icons for, as soon as i can get them up on photobucket, i'll toss 'em your way. Everybody else, my offer still stands for FREE ICONS OR OTHER DOODLES if you're interested! My drawing isn't great or anything, but that's why they're free :3
I guess that's about it, spring break is next week, so hopefully i'll have a little time to get at least some of this stuff posted. hope you're all doing well!
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| OMFG!!! Max got into UC Irvine! |
[21 Feb 2007|05:07pm] |
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Holy shit!!! Max got into the University of California Irvine!! :O
My girlfriend is so smart! *does a little dance* I am so freakin' proud of her i might burst. (even as i write this i'm looking at her 3 page list of overdue library books XD golly, she works hard) This means we'll be moving to L.A. in august! WHEEEEE! NO MORE KANSAS!
:D :D :D
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| stuff i've been working on |
[15 Dec 2006|04:09pm] |
Here's the jawset i've been working on for my current fursuit head project for spiritwolven
I think this is deffinetly the best jawset i've done so far. Most realistic looking teeth, and also the best fit. Now he just needs eyes and fur! i can't wait for this guy to come together, it's been really fun to build.
( another )
I have a whole bunch of little surprises up my sleeve that will be making apperances soon, but for now they're a secret >.> What could they be you ask? Well, i'm not telling, but my current customers will be the first to benefit from them ;3
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| more drawings! |
[10 Dec 2006|10:59pm] |
I slept all freaking day today. I think i'm finally all caught up on sleep now though. This last week i've been running kilns non-stop... till 6 am... Here are the rest of the drawings i scanned the other day, starting out with my ShadowCat emoticons so now you know what i look like when i make these faces at you :P
Just a little excersise in expressions which i think is my strongest point in drawing, and my favorite part. This was really fun, i want to do more of these :D
I've also got some WIP drawings for joecifur's x-mas contest ( here )
And just a couple drawings of tiresius and adonis ( here )
My rubber mold tutorial was pre-empted on ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) fursuit so nevermind about that, but i've got a jawset to show off as soon as i get another scan done and run it all by the buyer. Oh, and i've started on another pair of feathered wings for coyotewings so WIP photos of that soon too.
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| Saturday comic |
[09 Dec 2006|07:00pm] |
whew! now to just get through finals week. all the hard stuff for my projects is done... So to celebrate, here's a little comic sequence i've been fiddling with. not entirely finished, but i like it so far :3 it's supposed to be silly more than serious btw, i think the punchline should have to do with me doing something extremely clumsy...
( 2 more pages back here )
more doodles later today probably. oh, and my rubber molds should be done tomorrow so expect that tutorial to be up in the next coulpe of days.
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