staying up for 33 hours appears to have maybe fixed my sleep schedule? we shall see but so far so good

guess it's about time i order new belts anyway

gender reveal claymore "FRONT TOWARDS BABY"

finally back in action, 4.1 upgrade tomorrow (assuming this doesn't explode overnight), then time for the ears, new tail, and leg bits

fixed my car's AC finally and it might be working a bit too well

new part for my printer arrived so might get it back up and running by the end of today! also been inspired and got a big open source project i want to start at some point, i'll talk more about that soon, probably

I will try to participate in Art Fight this year (depends how busy i am with fursuit progress). here's my page if anyone's interested ^^ artfight.net/~iohTheProto... and speaking of progress, my head base has arrived :3 M16 Mk6 looks so freaking cool, I can't wait to finish him! #fursuit

borked my VC4 when troubleshooting an issue a week or so ago. good news is i've finally found the actual problem (fried the USB Hub HAT for the Pi. Control/driver boards are evidently fine) bad news is everything I've tested today i should've done then and i feel like a stone-cold idiot lmao

I think I wanna casually reopen painting requests. Not just meaning *I* come up with something from a ref sheet, but that if someone messages me a character *and* a prompt, and I like it, I may paint it 👀

This wasn't good by any means but i was proud of it because it was ambitious lmao

I have not been this full of hope, love, and pride in I don't know how long #furryart #furry #protogen #hopecore

unburying this corpse because this post is still my magnum opus

happy pride! bit late, but in my defense, June 1st was a wild turn of events :P

money spread mid-surgery (replacing the CPU thermal paste)

some crazy things happened today /pos

ended up having to redo the cuff on one of the paws like 3 more times to fix various things (squeaker got messed up, claws needed more stuffing), and have now started working more on the body w/ the scan I have of my lower body. I like this shape I think :D

gave the claws loops

ngl learning fursuit making so far has just been like this (very fun, I'm loving it)

paws are done! so fucking proud of these, especially considering this is the first sewing project I've ever completed (pattern from StuffedTailsFursuits)

spending 6 hours hand-sewing the claws really has me appreciating the mechanical genius that is the sewing machine anywho, i have to redo them because the blanket stitch looks like shit inside out on the minky. shoulda done more research first lol i have at least conquered spandex, and cuffing :3

dopamine first learning/calibrating the stitch + trimming/stuffing, second was first practice run, and 3rd was more practice with the transparent presser foot so i can see what i'm doing. very happy w/ the real one! (trimming will be easy, stitch has proven make or break) #furry #fursuitmaking

makin progress, got most of the fabrics cut (other than the liner) and started clipping bits together. still gotta calibrate tension and length and stuff on some of the scrap pieces i see now why they sell the little clips in containers of like a million lol

went out to dinner with my family last night and we tried kbbq/hot pot for the first time and holy fuck that shit is yummy, easily new favorite food genre

good video, i think hopecore is a very important genre that is much harder to come by nowadays youtu.be/qVu2qnlQcvM

something feels different.... ready for summer though! #furryart

cool how everywhere I look for polyurethane (for the armor) either has acceptable colors but it's textured, or smooth glossy stuff where the colors are way off, if they're even there at all. atp I might just use minky, i think that could be a vibe as well also new art. I will post that tomorrow :)

still need to stitch most of the edges closed (much cleaner than welding it ngl), but otherwise fully built and ready for fur! ... and figuring out how to add belt loops that can withstand a decent bit of force ... and also what material i wanna do for the "metal" parts. #fursuitmaking

final piece started, ETC 2 PM today 👀👀👀

got timelapse working properly on my chamber camera - some tail progress :3 (this is the middle section) printer the size of a washing machine makes these big parts so much easier lol, 2 more plates to go for the end of the tail and then assembly time #fursuitmaking #3dprinting

made a dice bag :3 been getting sick of the little plastic boxes they came in originally lol

If (when?) I ever get back to drawing regularly, going to start using the pixel brush for lines, i really like these doodles I also think it's funny that I've been making furry art for nearly five years and I still struggle the most w/ cats and dogs. Took much longer than the other four #furryart

these tornadoes need to chill out like it's not that serious you don't need to be here bruh

tail 1/6 finished printing after nearly 3 days, and it's perfect... but i gotta redo it. doesnt have the squish i want, and it's fairly heavy, so i'm dropping the infill to 7% (with modifiers at the joints to keep it at 9% for durability) on the bright side, this cuts a day off the print time lol

glue stick solved the bed adhesion issue and the second one looks perfect; starting the third (and might redo the first at the end)

came loose on the last layer (tragic) but otherwise turned out pretty good!

ah, nylon does not fw textures PEI

time for take 2 on the PA-CF, except I've changed the settings for hopefully better adhesion, flipped the build plate to the less-worn side, and am also only printing one segment at a time ... I will be staying up for the next hour and a half to make sure it doesn't kill itself again though

back in business printing a new IDEX part cooling outlet (narrower than the one in this image) because the old one is stuck to the blob of broken dreams and despair

desire to work on projects meets moderately irritating but not technically debilitating headache

on the bright side, taking apart the toolhead revealed that a heat insert for the air duct had come loose from the plastic, so that was probably a decent portion of what was screwing up my shaper graphs

ok on second thought maybe i just use PETG or ASA for the inside bits hotend is completely ruined and a new one is $90

started learning how to use the sewing machine today, which, apart from causing it to jam twice from trying the embroidery patterns without instruction (manual doesn't really say anything for them, will have to look online), seems pretty straightforward! also started cutting fabric for the paws :3

first time driving at night in a fairly heavy thunderstorm, that was fun. The reflections on the road were so pretty though :3 And got to zoom (drive the speed limit) past all the peasants without AWD going like 10 under (responsibly, in the left-most lanes where nobody was)

new sticker for the drawover pack #furryart

thus seems interesting @realfollowers.bsky.social

a bit rough but got some insights: - lower infill density (this was 20% so it would stay together, but will definitely try less w/ the 95A than the 11% i did before) - add shell layers to the bits that aren't fur so they're smooth(er) - higher infill on the fin - use gloves when applying CA glue

scale model time

modified the spine so it'll be lighter, cheaper, (hopefully) more vertically rigid, and also has holes for zip ties as a fail-safe to keep it secure in the body

all materials for paws acquired, time to fail miserably at sewing 🔥