Progress!

I was digging through my closet and I found the first fursuit I made. It's certainly not the best, and I'm not terribly proud of the construction. I believe I've made quite the improvement. I wasn't sure on tags so I hope these ones apply properly.

The fabric is solely from Jo Anns. The purple and black is some kind of eyelash material, very soft but not very fur-like, and the beige is actually good quality fur. The eyes used to have a painted-on orange pupil that was reflective in UV light but they're REALLY hard to see. The eyelash material was put on sloppy. Seams show everywhere, glue shows, foam shows. Horrible, rushed construction. There's also nothing in the mouth but a strip of vinyl, and the edges show. Again not something I'm proud of. I can't even put this head on cause something inside pokes or it's too tight, maybe my head grew? lol I remember the jaw would move okay, and vision is really good with that speaker fabric, but that's about the only positive things I can say.

Since that suit I've definitely learned. I've done a lot of research in the years since and I'm proud to say that I even look up things for fun to this day. I've learned patience and diligence, and learned so much from tutorials and advice like what's listed in this community.


Not really a fursuit but this somewhat shows my improvement/understanding on foam, and this was built on a balaclava-elastic setup for the moving jaw (which works superbly!). I also used the duct-tape pattern method to cover the parts of this costume.


The first mask I'd furred with more adequate fur (resin base, nose, eyes, jawset, & tongue are from DVC). Not only could I 'test' and put things I read of to use but I learned a lot of other things as well. I really like how that lower lip came out, it's really puffy and fun to poke! Ears aren't the best here but I'm learning about that as well. Most of the seams on this head are sewn.


This base was sent to me by a friend to edit & fur (I don't remember the original maker). It was on some kind of huge meshy home-made balaclava with minimal beads of hot glue, but I don't have photo of it as I received it. I was asked to put it on a smaller, more accurately sized balaclava (the purple in this photo), which I made out of a stretchy, smooth polyester, and I added elastic bands to the balaclava for mouth movement. I edited the base so it fit on the smaller head, carved out some of the muzzle (there was NO room for a nose! o.o), added a new brow (in the process of that in the photos), carved down the massive cheeks, and edited the eyes so the mask wouldn't have an 'O_O' expression, with guidance/critique from a friend. In the picture below on the right I think the crookedness of the head is due to the tilt of the bad mannequin the mask is on. I'm not very satisfied with the left (viewer's right) ear though. Also in the right image the nose was remade.