Various Stages of Making [Arts and Crafts]

ahava

Talk about your creative energies here.

All crafts and hobbies and making things welcome.


I knit and weave and sometimes crochet and spin and dye yarn.


Other people do other things.

webguy20

Im big into painting d&d minis right now. Finally set up a dedicated paint location and picked up a good set of paints and brushes instead of borrowing them.

Here is a WIP Balor I started last night.

Radiation

I make stuff and things. Mostly wood or cnc stuff. I want to sell things sometimes but I'm bad at that part, but I need to be good at it so I can make more things (and try and sell them).

ahava

Also if anybody comes up with a better thread title, lmk.

I was distracted thinking about the fifth pair of socks that I've just started.

webguy20

@lonelyahava

"I'm a maker and Oh God I'm Making Another Pair of Socks"

?


This is based on the complaints I've heard from everyone I know who have made a pair before.

ahava

I'm oddly enough enjoying the socks.

They're fairly simple so far and once I take enough notes on the first one, the second is even faster, because I've already worked out the numbers I need to hit, I just need to keep hitting them.

Xaquin

I make the beginnings of lots of things!

pimento

I have ideas about all sorts of things I could make!

Radiation

If I had a dollar for every project I've started and didn't finish....I'd have more projects to start.

ahava

I've just cakes up 4 skeins of wool to stay Ellie's winter wear.

Lots of navy and gold to match her school uniform.

At least one pair of warm socks and probably also arm socks.

Just gotta find the right hat pattern.

KalTorak

I've been taking a short break from woodworking to remodel my shed into a roomier/more useful workshop. I built some sliding doors to replace the old junky ones that I mostly-on-purpose dislodged while reinforcing the wall studs. I finally got them painted up and should be able to hang them tomorrow.

Being on break almost made me forget how satisfying it is to build shit. But then I pounded a replacement stud into place and it fit real nice and it was like mmmmmmm yeah.

smof

lonelyahava wrote: »

I've just cakes up 4 skeins of wool to stay Ellie's winter wear.

Lots of navy and gold to match her school uniform.

At least one pair of warm socks and probably also arm socks.

Just gotta find the right hat pattern.

I feel like arm socks should have their own name.

I vote for slocks.

knitdan

Shirtless sleeves

Long gloves

pimento

pimento wrote: »

I have ideas about all sorts of things I could make!

Like this!

https://twitter.com/pimento/status/1374283496001216522

Uriel

@webguy20 how are you so good with your shading and highlights? I've not practiced very regularly over the years I've been painting but I've never really been able to get them to look that good. Is it mostly a paint consistency thing? Sometimes I make mine too thin or too thick maybe?

Either way I'm jelly. The most I usually do is some edges and dry brushing and a wash. It looks ok but also I'm bad at getting good pictures. My phone tends to show enough detail that it looks worse than it does to my eyeballs.

smof

Pimento I am entirely distracted by the adorable tiny pallet you have on your desk

pooka

Xaquin wrote: »

I make the beginnings of lots of things!

Second Sock Syndrome

webguy20 wrote: »

lonelyahava

"I'm a maker and Oh God I'm Making Another Pair of Socks"
?
This is based on the complaints I've heard from everyone I know who have made a pair before.

lonelyahava wrote: »

I'm oddly enough enjoying the socks.

They're fairly simple so far and once I take enough notes on the first one, the second is even faster, because I've already worked out the numbers I need to hit, I just need to keep hitting them.

I think the complaint is that socks are too enjoyable, to the exclusion of any other kind of project (given how I've seen sock knitters discuss it as addictive)

pimento

Brovid Hasselsmof wrote: »

Pimento I am entirely distracted by the adorable tiny pallet you have on your desk

I made a whole stack of them, I use them as coasters. They age.. appropriately, after some use.

smof

I love them

webguy20

Tallahasseeriel wrote: »

@webguy20 how are you so good with your shading and highlights? I've not practiced very regularly over the years I've been painting but I've never really been able to get them to look that good. Is it mostly a paint consistency thing? Sometimes I make mine too thin or too thick maybe?

Either way I'm jelly. The most I usually do is some edges and dry brushing and a wash. It looks ok but also I'm bad at getting good pictures. My phone tends to show enough detail that it looks worse than it does to my eyeballs.

I'll post links to the two guys I've been watching how to videos when I'm back on my desktop but the last couple models i didnt use an overall wash, just in very specific cases.

I also just switched to a wet pallet and it is SO much easier to thin and blend colors. It's night and day how I was doing it before, so I'm going to credit that.

Elvenshae

pimento wrote: »

Brovid Hasselsmof wrote: »

Pimento I am entirely distracted by the adorable tiny pallet you have on your desk

I made a whole stack of them, I use them as coasters. They age.. appropriately, after some use.

Those are completely inauthentic. You need to throw them down the stairs ten or twelve times each and break ~1/8 of all the horizontal boards.

Also, paint one blue and stencil CHEP on it.

DouglasDanger

I have a little pallet coaster what's it too, it came with a stack of post it notepaper on it

I now know what I will do with it when it's empty

Painting it blue, picking it up with a widdle pallet truck and smashing it into a wall

Then using it for a coaster

Radiation

You could 3d print a little pallet jack, or a forklift or something.

webguy20

@Tallahasseeriel

This video is what gave me the idea for the muscle tone on the Balor, though obviously mine isn't as detailed.

http://youtu.be/MlxEgVzbGT4

Then these two guys are the ones who I've been watching to understand painting techniques and gear and stuff.

https://youtu.be/awO01MoDnXE

https://youtu.be/UqgElHtomVw

pimento

Elvenshae wrote: »

pimento wrote: »

Brovid Hasselsmof wrote: »

Pimento I am entirely distracted by the adorable tiny pallet you have on your desk

I made a whole stack of them, I use them as coasters. They age.. appropriately, after some use.

Those are completely inauthentic. You need to throw them down the stairs ten or twelve times each and break ~1/8 of all the horizontal boards.

Also, paint one blue and stencil CHEP on it.

I do have a few that have parts of (or whole) slats missing or chunks broken off! It's just balsa wood so they don't stand up to a lot of knocking about, which also lends authenticity. If you have a look in the original photo the pallet there has some of a slat gone.

Uriel

Hey thanks for those video links @webguy20

The squidmar channel inspired me to try to use my wet palette more for some blending for highlights this time around and actually it really did speed up my process a bit and I think the cape came out way better this time. I'm just taking a break since my back hurts from the chair I was sitting in.




Here is a comparison to the previous cape

webguy20

That reworked cape is great! I wish my transitions were that smooth. Well done.

Uriel

Thanks! It really came down to using the wet palette to get the paint to the right consistency and doing a bit of blending both on the pallet and on the model.

I started with a brown base coat because red doesn't apply very well over black primer thus the clumping on the previous guy.

Then I went on with a couple coats of deep red primarily in the reccessed areas and a brighter red in the raised ones. Then blended the two a little in between. Finally I got mostly the deeper areas focused largely around the holes in the cape, lightly with a black wash and then the raised edges with a bright orange dry brushing.

I don't think I've ever done better at it myself. All it took was a little confidence in trying it and trial with the consistency of the paint from the palette.

webguy20

Yea paint consistency is so important, especially for blending like that. The wet pallet makes it a lot easier though.

I still try to go too thick, with too similar a shade. I need to go thinner with a brighter tone, and build up.

Part of me wants to buy a sprue pack of capes and swords so I can practice my blending and non-metal metal techniques.

Uriel

The two main reds on that cape were very similar. I believe it was army painter dragon red and bright red. The real difference comes through better because of the edges in lava orange and the black wash over the darker red. It really made it pop more than it did initially.

Here's an in progress shot.



It's much more subtle until I did the wash and dry brushing but it is noticable.

webguy20

Look at these autumn leaves! I might have to get these. I have an owl bear coming and these would make for great basing.

EDIT: does anyone know if any 3d printed chicken of the woods fungus exists? Or if someone could make some for me in 28mm "Heroic" scale? I found ground fungus minis, but no chicken of the woods.

smof

10% done

My stitches are so messy. Hooray for jpeg compression.

Chiselphane

I tell myself messy stitches add texture.

Bucketman

I am going to be attempting this soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVrbK2GaQ80

Xaquin

I want to make a pizza that looks like that

Radiation

webguy20 wrote: »

Look at these autumn leaves! I might have to get these. I have an owl bear coming and these would make for great basing.

EDIT: does anyone know if any 3d printed chicken of the woods fungus exists? Or if someone could make some for me in 28mm "Heroic" scale? I found ground fungus minis, but no chicken of the woods.

You might want to hit up the 3d model requests subreddit.
Or I think there's a thread in SE about people doing blender or something?
My modeling skills are not up to snuff to do much beyond boxes.
Edit: found it: https://forums.penny-arcade.com/discussion/222681/3d-modeling-thread#latest

webguy20

Bucketman wrote: »

I am going to be attempting this soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVrbK2GaQ80

I've made those lava crackle bases. You REALLY slop on that texture paint.

Bucketman

My wife needs a lava bear for D&D so I'm printing a bear mini, and am going to try that all over its body. We'll see how it turns out! Also Citadel makes a version of the crackle paint in black...so probably just going to use that

pooka

So I have some jersey fabric that I was going to use in attempt at another caftan -- the pattern is perpendicular to the needed length. ..The correct orientation is lacking a couple inches. Okay, well... sure. Gonna go for it, anyway. Jersey is stretchy, it'll maybe be more of a wiggle dress.

The sewing pattern calls for essentially cutting the width in half, then one of those halves get halved again (so, a half panel for the back, and two quarters for the front.) ...Nope! Gonna fold my fabric to mimic the finished layout and center the selvedge.. edges, and cut into the fabric on the ends for armholes. This is in the hope of mitigating seam allowances and saving some fabric. Then I'll fit it, pinning the top and selvedges together and see if the side seams add necessary structure for drape.

If it doesn't work, I can still cut off both ends of the fabric width to get the quarter-sized panels and follow the pattern from there.

ahava

There's a Maori knitting designer Named Renee, her company is Auahatia. So far she's put out two pōtae, beanie, patterns and is testing a third.

I'm working on the second pattern, Tirama Tirama (twinkle twinkle) which was released last year as an MKAL for Matariki, Maori New Year.

The pattern is just stunning. The slip stitch colour work is Intuitive and moves super fast.

The most unique thing I've found is that the majority of the pattern is actually written using Te Reo Maori.

Instead of knitting Round One, you knit Ara Tuatahi. Instead of round two, it's ara tuarua. And so forth.

The pattern has multiple sizes from infant to fat headed adult.

I definitely recommend this pattern of you are curious about mosaic colours work, or looking for a new beanie, or just want a fast knit.

https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tirama-tirama-mkal

Ashaman42

I think I'm about to wander to the local diy store and buy a cordless jigsaw and a cordless circular saw, if they're in stock (they're showing as unavailable for click and correct but supposedly 1 of each on the shelf). Both as bare units as my drill came with two 5Ah batteries.

The circular saw is to trim some bed slats down to use as loft boards and the jigsaw I don't have a direct use for but would have been super handy last week when I modified the mounting plate for the battery on my electric bike (that's half an hour with a blunt hacksaw that I won't get back).