Hello my fabulous readers and welcome to Work in Progress Wednesday! As my graduate program begins to wind down, I will be able to post more of these as my work load dictates. Remember, come March, I am going to be on a hiatus while I take my graduate program comprehensive exam. I will do my best to at least try and get out either a Self-Promotion Sunday post or a Work in Progress Wednesday post, but I do ask for your cooperation in this as I go for my second masters.
In the meantime, please make sure you go over to For Fans By Fans and vote for my current Care Bear submissions, as well as my latest My Little Pony Design:
Now, a few new pieces to start showing off. First up, an update on the minis that I am making for the advent calendars I am doing for charity auctions. It's slow going, because these are such tiny ponies and they because very intricate, but it will be worth it in the end:
Speaking of intricate, some of you might have remembered this Sleeping Beauty knight I was sculpting. I did a little bit more on her yesterday, first time in a long time, because this is one of those projects that need to get sanded down as I go along rather than at the end like a typical project. She still has a long way to go, but hopefully, in the end, she will look very cool. Here's the progress so far (by the way, I am NOT responsible for the drawing, but it is the inspiration for this piece):
Couple of Pokemon in the works, Mudsdale, Aipom, and Furfrou:
Another Pokemon (Shinx) and working on transforming this Twilight into a Moondancer from the new series (although I AM tempted to do it old school colors):
Another Last Unicorn, using a G2 pony (sometimes, these are the best ones because they sort of match the style of how Amalthea looked in the movie):
Lastly, working on a Gwenpool (she still needs her weapons) and turning this Care bear into a Cupid Bear (yes I know Valentine's Day passed, but I still want to make it):
I am always for smaller conventions, because those are the ones that everyone can get to. Without the smaller cons, the bigger cons would not exist. I think the smaller cons don't get the attention they deserve, so hopefully you will come check me out at one of these conventions.
In the meantime, let's check out the newest pieces. It's not a lot lately, because I have been working on my major charity pieces plus my grad school classes, so it's been very involved. I should be able to post more about it on Work In Progress Wednesday. But for now, I got a few minis for you, both of them Pokemon. I have two more in the works as well, but for now, check out my Purrlion and Pancham, and don't they look cute:
HELLO READERS! Oh my goodness, I can FINALLY post something for Work in Progress Wednesday because I am hitting a point in my classes were I am able to sort of kick back a bit! That's mostly because I am both ahead and at a standstill at the same time. I'm ahead because I have completed pretty much all the work I need to do, but I am at a standstill for pretty much the same reason. So, with that in mind, yesterday I had a snow day and I got to do a bit of work on a BIG project I am doing--a charity piece that I am doing for BronyCon. This is one I have been teasing for a while, and so I will show a little more. This piece involves a lot of little pieces, and it's something that pretty much anyone should be able to use.
Another hint: in 2013, there was a My Little Pony one of these items, and as far as I know, I haven't seen any since.
Last hint: I am not just referencing G4 ponies for this--I am even going back to G1 and G3 for holiday ponies.
Give up?
I'm making an ADVENT CALENDAR! That's right! This advent calendar is going to have a lot of winter themed ponies on it, as well as the Mane 6 and a few others on here! I'm even making an OLAF pony! See if you can spot him in the picture! But regardless, this has been such a HUGE undertaking! I am hoping that this piece goes for quite a bit of money when I do actually donate it. I am coming up with a design for the center of the calendar itself, paying homage to the Mane 6 of now with their inspiration counterparts! Hopefully everyone likes this piece and when it's done, it helps to rake in some dough for the charity that BronyCon always tries to help.
OK! So I meant to post this A WHILE ago, but I was super sick the last week and a half that I just couldn't do it. And I do mean super sick. So today, we have TWO reviews, and one of them is of a play I saw recently: the Aaron Sorkin take on "To Kill A Mockingbird" starring Jeff Daniels...yes, that Jeff Daniels!
But let's first start with the movie I FINALLY saw, "On The Basis of Sex!"
"On The Basis of Sex" (director: Mimi Leder)
I originally wanted to see this movie when it first came out, as it was obviously very historic in it's own way and with all the nonsense happening on Capitol Hill, The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsberg has been a fixture for many of us, especially with the new "RBG" movie coming out prior to this movie. Now, did I think this would be a stellar movie? No, I did not. But then again, not all great movies need to be flashy in order to be good. And yes, this is not a movie that is going to win any sort of Oscar, but that doesn't mean this movie was horrible. In fact, this was a very wonderful movie. Despite the fact that many things were obviously exaggerated (seriously people, if you have EVER taken even ONE law class, you would know that it would NOT be possible to attend your own classes and your significant others' classes, no matter how hard a worker you are), the intention of Ruth (played fabulously by Felicity Jones) is there to make known--that she wants to help change things in the United States--is not lost to anyone. While she does get sidetracked--and I am not diminishing that you can still effect change by teaching it--Ruth ends up getting back into the ring when her husband Martin (affectionately played by Armie Hammer) presents her with a case of sex discrimination against a MAN. That the tables could be turned to try and use the opposite sex to help the cause of women is almost something that Ruth didn't seem to consider. But it's a FABULOUS case of quid pro quo and makes for something exciting!
The dialogue is fabulous, the wit and humor provided give you a good chuckle. While obviously things are changed around, it's a wonderful piece of cinema. And I highly recommend looking at the ACTUAL case, as it was significantly different scenario than what they show in the movie: Weinberger v. Wiesenfeld
"To Kill A Mockingbird" (adapted for stage by Aaron Sorkin)
When I was gifted tickets to this, I originally groaned. Not going to lie, this book has been done to DEATH for me. I mean, who hasn't read this book or performed this play to some extent in middle or high school? Seriously, by the time you are done with it, you never really wanted to see it again (save for a few people who enjoyed it, and honestly, I question who could enjoy it with how depressing it is, in spite of wonderful dialogue). But, the person who gifted me the tickets has never really steered me wrong when it came to shows, so I decided I would go in with an open mind. And boy am I GLAD I did! This play is BRILLIANT! The way that it has been adapted has allowed for a lot of the themes and the tone to still be prevalent, with the children--Scout, Jem and Dill--providing the narration while also being a part of the story. Jeff Daniels provides a command performance as Atticus, although many people will say that there are some differences between the book version and the play version, and honestly, that's fine. In fact, both Sorkin AND Daniels address this sort of thing:
This play TRULY rings forth with dialogue that many people could probably relate to today, and many themes that, in our current political clime, seem all too familiar. In a sense, Sorkin has brought forth Harper Lee's original dialogue and given it a modern voice, the sort of voice that we all need to recognize--not everything can be rationalized, not everything can be explained away. We might all want to try and be fair to those we know, but there comes a point when we can't, when we need to decide. And this play forces us to really take a good, long look at what we should "All rise" and stand for.
Hello all you fabulous readers! I am finally back from my sickness, although I am still not at 100%, but I am getting there. It's a slow process, considering I had two different strains of the flu at the same time (yes, you read that right--two different strains of the flu at the same time). So, not much to show tonight, considering I am still recovering, but definitely a few things. First up, please go and vote for my new designs that are on For Fans By Fans. I submitted my Kirin/Nirik design, as well as one of my Care Bear designs. I'm waiting to see if another one of my Care Bear designs gets approved, so keep an eye out for it. Please go and check them out, and give them a vote:
Next up, my newest pony! I just finished this Zilla Flurry Heart, which includes styling the hair rather than sculpting. This was a first for me, so I was asking around on how to make the hair stay. Someone told me they had done glue, so I decided to try spray Mod Podge, which seems to be holding pretty well so far. Plus, I added a crown with some gems, to show off her princess status even more. Plus, it just adds to the cuteness factor. So check her out on my Etsy page soon!
Hello everyone, and welcome to another Self-Promotion Sunday! Today, I am updating the list of conventions I will be attending this coming year, because I cannot believe I forgot one or two of them in the initial list! So with that in mind, here is the current updated list (which we all know can get bigger):
In the meantime, I have been SWAMPED lately with both work and grad school, which given that I am still learning to balance the former, and almost done with the latter, is not surprising. I have also been extremely sick, hence my absence from last week. I have been coughing so badly that it makes me shake. This is not the first time I have been sick this school year, and it's actually becoming both frustrating and frightening. Frustrating because this is about the 3rd or 4th time within 6 months that I have been sick, and frightening because of that same reason. So it has made doing any work very hard to do because the coughing has been causing a lot of shaking. I hope to have more answers this week.
But in the times that I have NOT been shaking, I got these two ladies done. Since She-Ra is on the rise again, I figured to use some baits I had to make her mount, Swift Wind. Maybe I will make a few She-Ra figurines from some EQG Minis. But these girls should be up on my Etsy soon, when I can stop coughing.
Hello everypony! And happy Fluttershy Friday! I am back from a week of being extremely ill, and am back in the swing of things! I have 4 new Flutters to show off this week, including a new Flutterbat! Let's begin!
The first two are Flutters using the new Cutie Mark Crew figurines, the mini ones. Now, at first, I honestly thought I was going to hate these things. They looked too weird, like they were trying to be chibi but not quite. But since I got the bigger one, I have succumbed to this cuteness. So now, I have an original Fluttershy and a custom Flutterbat! Aren't these two adorable??
Now, the next two are sort of on the fence. First is a zilla size G4.5 Fluttershy, no real importance or uniqueness. I honestly was originally considering making her into a Flutterbat, and I may still do that.
Lastly, is another fashion size Fluttershy, this one the one that had the really long mane/tail that had weird strings in it. This one I got recently and didn't realize that some of the strings were cut off. Honestly, her hair was in such a state that I am surprised that I didn't give up and turn it into a bait. I am wondering if I should make this girl into a Rainbow Powered Fluttershy.
What are your thoughts on the last two? Any suggestions?? Should I keep them or bait them?
