Queue up your browsers and prepare for the e-line! BlizzCon tickets go on sale tonight at 7pm Pacific. Click here to head over to the official ticket sales page! And good luck!

Oh ya, guess what? Announcement: Nuku and I are officially planning to attend!!! *squee* That is if I can grab some tickets!! Hope I can score tickets tonight!

Labels: BlizzCon

I really like the way these eyes turned out. I used Prismacolor markers + Sharpies on the buckram (stiff white, semi-see-through fabric) for the iris and pupil color. (I'm very proud of my freehand circles, shine, and shading!) The paper "eyelid" is still just the template (to be made of black, leather-textured vinyl, and the plastic "white" isn't glued down yet. The whites will be glued on after I fur the entire head. I used a Clorox Wipes container for the plastic. ^_^

And I received the plastic wolf nose from Van Dyke's Taxidermy today. It's quite hard, so I'm in the process of spraying it with black Plasti-Dip (rubber texture). It's actually time for another coat! BBL.

Working on a new head. This is another personal project for me. I'm finally getting around to making a second version of my fursona and mascot of our website, Ember, the black-backed jackal.
WIP photo:

Hey folks, just giving a small update to let you know we haven't completely disappeared. Since Black Back Studio is more of a hobby than a business for my husband and I, we've put it on the back-burner for a time while we get some things straightened up here at home. We've lived here for about 2 and a half years and it was only recently that we've really started to "move in" so to speak.

We live in a 2 bedroom, 1 bath, upstairs apartment and the Master bedroom became a garage of sorts; uninhabitable, the room where we store crap and just chuck things into before we have company over. Well, this last week, we finally converted the master bedroom into the bedroom and our guest room is now the office/den.

I don't really have a designated work area for fursuit building at the moment, but that may be remedied before the end of this year since the "office area" is no longer in the dining/kitchen area. We still have more organizing and simply getting rid of old clutter to do in the other rooms, but our space is really starting to become "home".

I'll be sure to post any new noteworthy developments as they come. Thanks!

Just working on art commissions, trades and gifts currently. We'll have a few photos of Krystal's partial costume outing at FanimeCon 2009 up in the gallery soon!

Finished up Krystal's tail and took some video footage so I can actually see how it moves and looks while wearing it.

The fabric for the body suit just came in and drafting the pattern is in process. I still haven't finished furring her head because I'm having second thoughts about the shade of blue I used. This light blue fur is so soft, but people are already getting on my nerves about it not being the right blue. It's been really hard to find her true blue because its either too light, too royal, or too green/teal.

It will probably push back my finish date by a LOT, but I'm considering ordering the "too royal" blue since the darker blue would shout, "Krystal!" a lot more than the baby blue is. *sigh* In the end if it looks more like Krystal I'm happy with it.