I know I've shared this guy before but I recently found more pictures so I thought it would be cool to share a collage so you can get the full effect of how lame this costume really was, haha.

We all start somewhere - I definitely didn't have any "natural talent" for crafting or sewing. I was a painter and illustrator and couldn't sew a straight line :) But if you are really, really invested in learning a new skill, you can definitely learn it! PRACTICE!

This is my very first fursuit, finished in 2004! It was built on plastic mesh [NOT held together with tape, haha, I think i stitched it through with yarn?] with some foam on top and then I managed to fur it myself by draping the fabric over the shapes rather than using tape patterning [there wasn't any info on that back then!]

The eyes were cut from a bleach bottle, and the pupils were black pantyhose.

The tail was made by and the paws were from another crafter; I had no idea how to sew.

The feet were made with a tutorial from and the pawpads were paper.

The head was built using tutorials from and and Noblewolf, I think :p

I had NO idea what I was doing but I remember being really proud of this when it was finished, I had never made a costume like this before. It took me months to put together and I hid it from my college roommates because I knew they'd pick on me, haha. I wore it a few times and the plastic mesh eventually snapped and it fell apart. Alas!