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Zephyr collage ~ Needle felted dragonby ~tallydragon

Artisan Crafts / Textiles / Fiber Art

More pics, so you can see his markings better and also see how bendy he is. He stands really well! And is good for carrying around at conventions.

He is made out of dyed wools, which I turned into felt through a process known as needle felting, shaping it as I went. There are no patterns and there will never be a pattern. Wires are run through his entire body to make him gently poseable--in fact, each of his toes is individually wired and poseable (not much, since they're stubby, but they are), which I'm pretty much never doing again--it doubled construction time. His horns and claws are apoxie sculpt painted with acrylics, sealed, and topped with interference paints. His eyes were blank-backed taxidermy shark eyes (if I remember correctly).

Note: I have been made aware that there is a pokemon with similar colors and tribal markings, but it was not modeled on this pokemon and the similarity is coincidence--I just liked these colors together.

EDIT: I guess the pokemon similarity's not as bad as I thought! The pokemon I'm referring to is Kyogre, which I forgot is red on blue instead of blue on blue. Also, the similarity may have appeared stronger than it is because Zephyr sits with an unfinished plesiosaur on my shelf. The plesiosaur actually came first, and Zephyr's markings/colors are modeled on HIM. So, Zephyr matches a blue tribal-marked critter with big flippers, and Kyogre is a blue tribal-marked critter with big flippers. I guess you'd have to see them all together to think they were similar.