Real life Dovahkiin?

So what about perhaps saving for a while, moving to L.A, sponge from your 'buddies' until you're settled in there and established? 9-5 job does guarantee you food on the table, but it's terribly soul destroying though...this is essentially true for the artistic types, randomness and flexibility is much more fun anyway (ofcourse you'd be stuck with starving artist syndrome for a while). I'm guessing 'jerz' means new jersey? I dunno...aside from what TV and movies tell me about america

hahaha yeah , im in the crusty armpit of america ! whoo ... honestly if i move i want to make a move to somewhere beautiful like costa rica , work a few jobs spend my off days with my dogs fishing , and hiking through the woods , quality of life would immensely improve along with health... it would also help me keep my creativity one of my hobbies that keeps me happy tattooing made drawing into a horrible job for me .. i have visited costa rica a few times , longest stay being a month and i NEVER WANTED TO COME BACK . The land was so beautiful .... i really can not stand living in the cities , i have lived in Philadelphia Pennsylvania , New York , Jersey City , and it is just fast paced horrible , IMMENSELY LOUD. ... i also would never want to do something blind folded and rely on friends to help me , i have been on my own since i was too young to even be on my own , and worked very hard to keep my apartments / jobs. Maybe ill get lucky and run smack into a really cool opportunity ... thank you for the advise it is highly appreciated , and where are you from rizen?

from New Zealand...a bit quieter than the USA and yeah, fair enough with the whole independence thing going on, i picked up on that when you mentioned from 14 years old, school and work till 2am...who even does that!?!? that's hardcore.
well, i guess costa rica sounds like an ideal retirement spot eventually...but yeah, just saying...i think you'd do well as a costume/makeup artist...you'd clearly enjoy the role, you'd just be broke

Geat job on the outfit and ect. So on a percentage how close are you to finishing?

Hey yea ... about that ... lol not even closeee! i picked up cool reptile skin fabric today it is thick and scaly like an alligator but a neat brown color , some wierd grey fur , ordered a few yards of black wool and a yard of brown wool for my buddies mage robes (i do not look forward to hand stitching all of that ) my other friend he is having hard times (lost his grandad) so i picked up supplies to sculpt him a dragon priest mask and will be surprising him with it ...tonight i am finishing putting together my helm and sanding it , next is paint for that sucker (along with the current dragon priest mask ), last night i drove myself completely nuts with insomnia ...decided to start working on a pauldron but while doing so recording a timelapse of the actual sculpt ... THIS WAS THE RESULT ---> <----- YEP i have no shame ... ... there i am ... gross human being right there lol ... I know i will get it done , i always work on projects like this in short periods of time , by the end of it i am completely insane but the project is complete and i am as tarded as ever ....

Very Neat!
I can't wait to see your progress, way to think outside the box!

haha thank you!

UPDAYTE!!!! first paint layer down


and helm progress

Depending on lighting it refracts light really damn cool









i will do a touch up in the morning with another coat of paint , 6 coats down!!!

That looks incredible. Want to go home and see it larger on the pc

thank you! it has a coat left then it is finished! just to smooth out some crazy looking patches on it more towards the mouth area , i want that part to be pretty flat where every other area i want a little black showing through

Now I've seen it on my pc instead of my phone - it's even better. I see where you're coming from with more black showing through. It will have such ....... a presence. I'm sure I'm thinking of another word, but it won't leap out of my mind.

FINISHED MASK ... one down ....







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Pure awesome wrapped in bawss wrapping paper covered in Epic string.

last bit of progress tonight , MY HANDS ARE DESTROYED D";

I'm looking forward to seeing the finished articles, I bet your hands are too. I thought I was beyond the thought of mounting game related things on the wall (that's physical age, not ..... playful age) but the mask should be on display. Thinking about it, there are 7 more dragon priest masks in the game . That said, the armour is looking incredible, maybe that deserves to be on a mannequin.

hey guys , i did not get half as much as i thought i would get done this weekend because...well , i was drunk ,and watching archer for most of the weekend .... and eating , and playing with my food , but i got SOME stuff done sort of .....


so i set all the pieces since the chest plates are painted , everything attached now ... it is sturdy , comfortable ... just very heavy...



an idea of what i will do to my hair , sorry a bunch of it is chopped off ... i guess that happens when your hair is obscenely long ..... but yeah i made a lot of jewelry , feathers ... animal bones to weave throughout my hair and set with those aggravating little bobby pins



a better view with a little more light burning out my retinas



a close up of the awesome thick fabric that will be made into my skirt , it is the same fabric draped over me for censorship ... in a weird pyramid head skirt type of way.... .. but it is awesome and tough ... made for couches and stuff like that



NO WHERE CLOSE TO DONE , i just got really bored and decided to take it out back in the middle of the night , spray black spraypaint over it , drunkly spray some silver over it later on ... in the dark ....at least it gives me an idea of what it will start to look like .... now to go back and ..sand some parts and ...re paint ...>:-[ meh ... but yea ... there it is guys lol i suck...

NICE!

you can watch me sculpt in this vid :>

Some very hard work got put into this; amazing!