First Fursuit- I need help along the way!

[Ventus Fall]

So far, so good. Nice to see how fast you're making progress



As for the jacket: I personally always wanted something like that for yeeeaaars. One day...

[Andy]

Progress so far! Almost time for fur :>
Put in my jaw and smoothed out the shape a LOT. Still have some work to do on the back of his head and blending the ears into the head better.


before putting on fur I'm going to line his smile with black felt.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMYvcx04jr0&feature=youtu.be <here's the newest demo!

[Nori]

It looks awesome!!!!! Fantastic job It could be smoothed out a bit by the forehead, but it looks great!

[Detroit]

oh wow looking really good for a first try congrats

[Andy]

yeah! I'm really digging this project and I'm very confident in it for a first try. Usually, my crafts come out garbage but I think I know why this one is different:
1) Rather than skimping with just whatever supplies I happened to have in the house, I actually went and sought out the proper materials.
2) I didn't take shortcuts. I'm always looking for hacks on how to make X material dry faster, how to hold something in place while I did something else; and for this project, I sat and took all the time I needed. When I got to the second stage (check out my progress pictures), I wanted to put fur on it because I wanted to have the finished product. Instead of focusing on HAVING  a head, I enjoyed just making it instead.

3) I used my resources. Forums, references, everything. Instead of half-assing it blindly, I researched everything carefully to make sure I wasn't ruining my project.
Now that I've written it out, those are actually 3 really good tips for building a fursuit. I think I'm gonna save it somewhere.

Post Merge: June 15, 2016, 06:27:46 PMTaped him up so I can figure out how much fur I'm gonna need. Am I doing this right? any suggestions for markings/cutting it? Is there another way I'm supposed to be doing it and I should redo it? I kind of did this one blindly.

[Nori]

As long as the tape isn't too sticky, you should be fine I use an exacto knife to cut my pieces out, its not a huge deal if you cut into the foam a bit, just re-glue it.

[Andy]

successfully taped and untaped my head! Then I sat outside and watched traffic in it. Got a lot of funny responses. Highlight of my day.

[Ventus Fall]

Haha, glad to see it's going so well, keep it up


I see on some patterns of the head you indicated an arrow for the fur direction, on other patterns it seemed you didn't. Just be sure you do it on all of the patterns, just in case ^^
(If you haven't already )

[Andy]

got my hoodie and balaclava today! I've been wrestling with the balaclava and the jawpiece of my fursuit all night and I'm giving up for now. Also permanently installed my eyelids and glued in a temporary nose for reference. I'm going away till friday and hopefully next weekend will have my moving jaw sorted out!

[Nori]

IT LOOKS AMAZING!  Awesome job

[Andy]

THREAD REVIVAL!!!!!!


So, I've been in a program for the last 4 weeks, living at a local college and taking classes and all that good stuff. I didn't get to work on my suit at ALL, but I'm home now and I got all my fur! this is pretty much the last stage of the project.

did a bit of work on the tail, still working out the harness.


I've mostly decided that for the time being, I'm scrapping the idea of a moving jaw. the way I built the head doesn't allow for much room anyways (to move my jaw) and it's been making the process of making this costume frrustrating and unfun. So if I decide not to worry about it, I can just enjoy the project and finish what I've done so far!!! wicke d excited to see the final product 

[Nori]

EEE it looks AWESOME!

[Andy]

so, I got all the fur on the head. I gotta shave it, I'm looking for someone to lend me a razor atm. I'm a little worried about visible seams when I shave it, as my pattern wasn't well made and I didn't sew it (I tried sewing one ear, messed up really bad, and quit); but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. Maybe I'll just fold the edges.



anyways at this point i'm feeling really discouraged- eyes too small, face not defined enough, and it just looks bad in general. Oh well. It was my first try, I guess.

[Nori]

Psh its better than my first head!! The eyes will pop out more when you shave, and it'll look better in general, I promise! Plus you can fill in missing spits with a scrap of fur, since you didn't sew it

[Andy]

sewed my neck!

pic without the jacket so you can see the whole thing

with jacket+bad lighting




so from wearing it for about 5 minutes, It's way too hot. I'm going to cut a lot from the inside foam (it's too snug on my nose), and I'd had some temporary sort of top jaw piece that will make it better ventilated if I cut it out. Onto the hands! I made 1 paw but it didn't fit the glove base I'd made, and I don't even want paws. I'm making hands to be true to the character, even though it's kind of weird as a fursuit, but that's what I want , so I'm gonna do it!!