I've sifted through the body and the digitigrade legs segment and it all comes down to one thing...
Nobody mentioned HOW you go about sewing the fur to the foam when you are happy with how it shapes the digi legs, let alone, if you build the rest of the suit off the legs and it all becomes one big "Suit", if you know what I mean. Also, I can't find a good tutorial that shows pictures or the process of making a form fitting suit for a female fursuiter who wants to strut her pretty womanly curves!
I plan to do this for two suits. The tauntaun and a gryphon.
For my Tauntaun, I want a form fitting suit that accents my womanly figure. I'm very svelte, so it will make a nice female tauntaun shape.
I do plan to do a test suit first of fleece I have, and or, some left over fur I have from my last partial, so no need to remind me on that.
So, for a form-fitting and curvy suit, I want digitigrade legs. Right. I know how to foam up the legs. Get a pair of stretchy pants, that kind of thing and marvel at my labor when I'm happy, then what? I know you ductape the legs, allow for an inch to two inches per segment of duct tape pattern piece and you sew them together, right? At least, I think that's how it goes, but how to you get them over the legs? That's the part I don't get, especially when you make your feet part of the pants. Do you slip it on, like a sleeve? Do you glue down only in certain places so it turns into a pair of cushioned pants? What?
If someone could show me a literal step-by-step tutorial of how to go about making a suit ONE unit, literally, that would be very helpful.
I'd like to know how you build up from the legs into the mid section and the torso, or the bust. I want the suit, besides the arms and the feet, to be one thing, naturally, but I don't know how I'm supposed to do that with no good tutorials.
My tauntaun is plain and just one color so there's no need for markings or that kind of thing when it comes to making the pattern, except for the natural allowances that legs would need so you could move. Like the division there for them being built onto pants, of course.
Am I over thinking this or what? I might be, but I dread this process because I want so badly to do it right to where I"m happy and with my experience in art, I don't usually get what I want or I mess up and then I give up because I'm so saddened at my inability to get it right no matter how hard I try.
Pictures? Tutorials of someone's whole process besides the foam legs and then the suit is suddenly completely finished? Show me the in between pictures, please. That's what people leave out and it just stupefies people trying to learn to do something they've never done before in their lives. I can't have stuff left out, I get lost all too easily.
Nobody mentioned HOW you go about sewing the fur to the foam when you are happy with how it shapes the digi legs, let alone, if you build the rest of the suit off the legs and it all becomes one big "Suit", if you know what I mean. Also, I can't find a good tutorial that shows pictures or the process of making a form fitting suit for a female fursuiter who wants to strut her pretty womanly curves!
I plan to do this for two suits. The tauntaun and a gryphon.
For my Tauntaun, I want a form fitting suit that accents my womanly figure. I'm very svelte, so it will make a nice female tauntaun shape.
I do plan to do a test suit first of fleece I have, and or, some left over fur I have from my last partial, so no need to remind me on that.
So, for a form-fitting and curvy suit, I want digitigrade legs. Right. I know how to foam up the legs. Get a pair of stretchy pants, that kind of thing and marvel at my labor when I'm happy, then what? I know you ductape the legs, allow for an inch to two inches per segment of duct tape pattern piece and you sew them together, right? At least, I think that's how it goes, but how to you get them over the legs? That's the part I don't get, especially when you make your feet part of the pants. Do you slip it on, like a sleeve? Do you glue down only in certain places so it turns into a pair of cushioned pants? What?
If someone could show me a literal step-by-step tutorial of how to go about making a suit ONE unit, literally, that would be very helpful.
I'd like to know how you build up from the legs into the mid section and the torso, or the bust. I want the suit, besides the arms and the feet, to be one thing, naturally, but I don't know how I'm supposed to do that with no good tutorials.
My tauntaun is plain and just one color so there's no need for markings or that kind of thing when it comes to making the pattern, except for the natural allowances that legs would need so you could move. Like the division there for them being built onto pants, of course.
Am I over thinking this or what? I might be, but I dread this process because I want so badly to do it right to where I"m happy and with my experience in art, I don't usually get what I want or I mess up and then I give up because I'm so saddened at my inability to get it right no matter how hard I try.
Pictures? Tutorials of someone's whole process besides the foam legs and then the suit is suddenly completely finished? Show me the in between pictures, please. That's what people leave out and it just stupefies people trying to learn to do something they've never done before in their lives. I can't have stuff left out, I get lost all too easily.