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Showing posts with label character. Show all posts
Showing posts with label character. Show all posts

Monday, 5 September 2016

Feeling hopeful

It's been a busy month and my small steps are quickening.
I have so many things in my head I want to do that I need another month in the year to complete them. My character workshop was so much fun with such lovely lovely ladies. They also gave me lots of ideas too. Maybe I need an extra two months a year! 

Heres what they managed to get through in a day. They now know how to make faces and hands!


Isn't it amazing that they all look different!
The wonders of felting eh? 


Saturday, 16 April 2016

Faces!!

Faces, real looking faces elude me.
I am always scared to start them and when I am happy with my result, one pops up on a needle felting page and I want to give up felting completely. I am my own worst enemy. I have a vision of what I want the faces to look like but making that happen is another story.

I like to take photos of my work as it progresses as I think you can see mistakes on a photo that you don't see in the 'flesh'. 
So today, as I have a quiet,peaceful, no one in the house but me (and the dogs, the cat, with an occasional duck wandering past) day.
 I sat in the conservatory plucking up the courage to start. 
I had been doing my research and had images round me to help, so with no other obstacles in the way, I began.
After two hours and much mumbling to myself here was the progress ( no laughing) 








At this point I stopped.
Im not happy with the lips nose or eyes as yet. The temptation to rip it all off is like trying not to eat chocolate whilst dieting, but I'm not giving up quite yet. Or the diet. 
Does anyone else have this problem? Why I don't just stick to character faces and leave realistic faces to the ones that can, I don't know?