Mega sweet pic! ^-^

Nice one, and good pun.

MY GOD!!! He's making that out of sculpy?! Why's he doing that to himself?! Doesn't he know that Plastina is a dream to work with? Especially the medical grade stuff, it's like peanut butter when you heat it in the microwave. Last thing I tried to make in sculpy was a colossal mistake and on using plastina, you'd think I was Michelangelo. That stuff is nice in how it bakes but it's just a sloppy mess to try and make anything out of. Maybe I should stick to clay and molding...

Plastina? You mean non-hardening oil based clay? It is great for making something temporary I suppose but it is semi useless for much of anything else. Without spraying some sort of sealant on it you can't even use it to make a mold positive for silicone rubber molds. Sculpty can do amazing things if you know how. You can mix mineral oil into it to soften it, you can smooth it with alcohol, you can mix different types to achieve different properties and you can use flexible Sculpty to create things like horns and ears that don't break off. Super Sculpty and Premo are what most professional figure makers use.

Well, of course you have to use the alginate mold making stuff for plastina for the obvious reasons. It -IS- designed for dental and medical mold making. I have also heard good things about the room-temperature mold chemicals mainly because they don't "knock" when making a mold. As for sculpy, well, you may well have to know what you're doing. But why bother? Plastina is so forgiving of the typical hand twitch and doesn't sag. Let me say that again, "It doesn't sag."

Ummm, ok. Supersculpty doesn't sag either and you can take a heat gun and harden an area you have finished so you can move on to another area and you can't accidentally put a finger print in it or drag a fingernail on it. Once you bake it you can sand, drill and even put it on a lathe or mill it. Plastina can not be hardened and anytime you touch it, it will pick up your fingerprints and/or deform. Trust me, for figure making, Supersculpty makes the process a lot easier. Plastina requires that you make a casting if you want it permanent where a figure made in supersculpty, once hardened, can be sanded and painted and will last decades.

Certs is a breath mint! Certs is a candy mint!Stop! You're both right!

Quoted from a common TV ad circa 1957 to 1962. (Yeah, I'm that old that I can remember things like that.)

Maybe part of the problem with sculpy Akumeitakai is having is that he's not working with a wire armature? I know Sharpenr uses them, and they keep everything upright and in one piece.

Skite, that would be the reason. Wire armature really -REALLY- hampers my ability to work. I need something to be flexible at all times while remaining rather rigid when I want it to be. Sculpy has never worked right for me. Perhaps armature is the way to go with that one? I will have to try that...

very good!
isn´t great when our work is recognized that much to inspire other people?
I think that´s what make difference in our lives.
do you still have that Beatrix pic I did some time ago?
I need to make another one.
she´s really fun to draw.
take care!

The one with the crowbar? Yep. I sitll have the image, and have had it printed out as well. If you like, I can post in my scraps area for comparison.

Verrrrrrrrrrrrrrry likeable!

Excellent art, Taral. Bea is very cute and sexy. Awesome pose, colors and expression.

I WANT MOOOOOOORE OF HER DARN IT! Super hero bunnies in indestructable suits aren't a dime a dozen you know.

They cost $3.98 each in fact. At least I think that's what it said in the corner on the front cover.

If I live long enough to retire, maybe the're be more Beatrix comics, though I don't know who will be around to publish them. But for the money involved, it's just a labour of love and right now I have to labour too much just to survive.

This is probably the best image I've seen of Beatrix standing alone. I could get lost in those deep, purple eyes.

Always nice to see Beatrix again. We did not see near enough of her adventures back in the day.

One wonders why sales were so crappy. Too few furries is only part of it. Too little PR or not effective enough PR maybe. Or perhaps you just have to do the first six issues of anything pro bono before a comic will catch on. But we never did better than 1100 or maybe 1400 copies, and with the colour issue Vision chalked up a loss. The publisher thought colour would make Bea more acceptable to a general audience, but there was just too damn much product available, and the average comic store operator didn't want to buy 800 obscure titles on spec when all his money was needed to stock the shelves with sure sellers like Spiderman. In the end, about the only thing that would probably have made Bea viable was if somebody burned 95% of all the other furry comics before they could leave the printer.

But for better or worse the major publishers (Mu, Vision, Radio, Shanda, UP) all seemed to have policies to multiply the number of titles. I think it worked like this. "If we can only sell 1500 copies of *any* comic, we'll never make more than a small amount of money. But if we sell 1500 copies of ten times as many comics, we'll make ten times the money." It may have worked for them, but possibly at the expense of the creators, who had to share an increasingly smaller and smaller part of total sales. I'm about as certain as I can be that by increasing the mediocre (and sometimes outright poor) content of furry comics, it fatally damaged their reputation.

Shiiny...

*ting*

Shiney bunny!

I always especially loved this character of yours, as it accompagnied my first steps in this furry world...
Sharpenr's rendering is already wonderful, it will really be beautiful once completed.

Besides just adorably cute, what I really love about this picture is that she just looks so genuinely happy. Makes me feel happy too. I don't think we saw her happy often enough.