Kippo and Cerys, first meet

These photos do not really create a story themselves, but I have pondered one still... Without really writing it anywhere. It doesn't even have anything to write, as it's only about the first meet of Kippura and Cerys.

Both hold chains. Both have something in the ends of them. That's the stupid discrepancy there.

What was the biggest feeling with this, I think that Kippura wanted to see how Cerys reacts to her. She finds it funny that others think her as a male or genderless because of her look... And Cerys clearly had difficulties to show right behavior, but she's not stupid or unfriendly still. That simply was something new and unexpected to her, to find another female but without clear signs of being one.

And Kippo really is tall as some males, so...   

For some reason, Cerys's giant pet rat Dan always goes to stranger's legs when meeting new two-legged things.

Cerys is too short to talk well to anyone.

And Kippo doesn't even use eyes that much, she is better at using her ears.

Without the flash...

Finally Cerys got sure who she is talking to.

Well, as seen, they are so different! Kippura is a blazed black dumbo with leather clothes, while Cerys is neon green and uses bright colors and... Just looks like a woman who wants to look like one. Maybe female alien... Whatever.

More photo stories and so on coming later.

(I really forgot that I haven't published this already, so it's time is now. So old things already. I also am finishing two texts about my newest dolls who aren't very-very-new anymore; my view. I just haven't had writing brains lately, what feels really stupid.) 

Waking up with cats

Here comes a photo story who has no visible horses to see. It's just about one of my dolls, Kippura, and her cats Tumpula and Ryysis.

We start the story with a pic where Kippura seems to be putting her scarf on. Cats know what she is doing, where she is going to and when she comes back to home too. It's her workday. And cats really know that when their staff needs to leave the home for a day, they make it to be difficult as possible...

The old man, Tumpula, 16 years old, is yet only stretching when the more black young dude had already flied around...

...and is now demanding food.

"Hey two-legged rat, I said I WANT FOOOOD!!"

How much attention that scarf needs?

"Well, maybe she reacts if I stare."

"Wow she walks to the foodcups!"

Then Ryysis notices Tumpula, who is scratching something under the cover. Maybe going to fill a nice warm spot after the staff sat on it... Cats just love warm too much. Old ones yet more.

Ryysis has hyperactive imagination, and he sees Tumpula as a prey.

While Ryysis uses his adolescence energy to tease the old guy, Kippura spends a bit time to fill their foodcups.

Well... The bigger dose is for Ryysis, as he is younger, not castratized and needs more energy.

After his breakfast Ryysis spends some purring moment with Kippura, as every morning.

...until he realises that the staff really goes. "Noooooo you didn't stroke me enough yet!"

Kippura: "Ryysis, EVERY day, I come home after work. I can't be late or then I lose my job. Without job I can't buy food for you."

Then she closes the door after her, and the black cat yet stands on the bed.

"What she said - no job, no food? Do furries need work that cats can eat?!"

"...but it makes sense. I better do a cat's job, so I drop a ton of fur to Asko's bed. I love spying when he curses it."

But Tumpula just continued to sleep after his breakfast. It seems to be a bit too warm there.

Or then he just is too relaxed.

Ryysis clearly understood what Kippura told him. Still, not sure that he could not give same comments to her at the next morning.

I wonder how much things change when Kippura needs to move away from the house, as the official resident's girlfriend moves there later. The house just has no enough space for everyone...


Artistic info:
I didn't think this photo story could be that easy to create, as I took a lot of pics and many of them are not really a part of it.

Anyone wondering why I write the cat's replies in words, instead of using some 'meow's? Because of humor and knowledge about cat behavior. That didn't mean that he could have literally talked to Kippura, I just wrote in English what he meant when he meowed. Also, those newer Schleich cats often have really good expressions, who give them more personality and possibilities for funny stories.

Our Lauha.

Of course every cat staff (we are not owners, because cats own us) could like to stay home with cats instead of going to work... Because of cats.

Let's keep this as a celebration for cats. And clever cat people.

I apologize that Kippo has no trousers. I have no idea of how to make some.  

Kippura, another doll

I need to apologize again that I am publishing a doll post... Ooops. But this is important, and I try not to keep this unpublished too long time. And I really DO have other things to photograph and publish, what are not about dolls alone.

In this text, I show you Grievous, my last doll for 2016. Of course she was not the last of ever, hehe, no. When I write this, I have already finished the first doll for 2017 too, it has their own time later then.

Grievous is an artist name. I don't know yet what this lady is called officially. As nicknames she reacts to Kippura and Kippo, and other stupid versions based from the art name.

About her creating process:

I didn't plan to make Kippo that tall, but she accidentally turned to be same size as male Breyer dolls of me. Not bad thing as I had nice ideas for her to be, too. I wanted a black silk clay doll with dark brown skin, white blaze, weird eyes and a mohawk. In the blaze she could have spots. I wasn't sure about how I can success with this, but I think... I got more excited to finish her compared to some other dolls of me.

Kippo got a bit too small pelvis and no lower tummy... I really have a habit to add rounder shapes for my dolls, because I think they need it. And having a tummy is important.

Paws, tail and fabric 'coat' areas glued.

When sculpting the head, I got a crazy idea what I adored quickly too much. It's nothing unusual from me; her right eye is right size, but the left is... oversized, and I also wanted quickly that it's not going to be healthy. Yeeee. More about their colorings later!

Painting the face pattern was a bit painful. I wanted to use only white paint before pigmentless skin tint details, so I needed to be really careful. Maybe two sizes of small paintbrushes were used... The reason I didn't add black paint was that I know my paints could be clearly too different tint from the clay's color - the clay is really matta and paints often are not. And although a matta paint can look great, it's not good for too bendable surface (silk clay and inner metal pieces, not the most safe materials together!).

I started painting the face with adding brown 'pigmented skin color' to the nose and mouth area, and around eyes.

Blaze painted.

Bad photo, but the ear tells me that there is already the skin tone added too.

Better view, colors view as they mostly should.

Although it should remind a bit of skull (rat skull of course), it's still meant to be a realistic color pattern. So it can be really non-symmetric too, what I adore.

Kippo's eyes were the funniest part. Right one got to be brown with larger black pupil, but the left... as said, it's not healthy. It's swollen. I also accidentally liked it's color, I mean the bead's own color - and how it glows when photographing with flash! At the end I decided to just paint some blood vein things there and add the pupil, no more paint for the left eye. Added glossy varnish and it was finished - and my craziest looking rat ever was made, first time in a shape of a doll! (Really I have drawn those a lot now, that's why Kippo was so emotionally important project to me.)

Eyes unpainted.

Painted, before the pupils.

With her mohawk I got crazy, as usually, I'm not good at gluing hair! But it helped that I sawed there a place for the tufts, after sculpting the head and it was already a bit dried. Her mohawk stays in shape with water brushing. I got no photos of the mohawks's glueing process.

When she was yet unfinished, Kippura met few other dolls already once, and I wrote a blogtext about it.

After creating, finished:

Kippura wears a roughly made red leather vest, and a blue scarf. All that just to keep her OK for camera... But her nosering and earrings are not for that, they're what they need to be; actual part of her face. She also keeps a chain attached to the nosering, just for fun.

(At February 2017 she got also a brown long vest, and a skirt-thingy, because that leather vest just wasn't good enough. Her scarf also got shortened.)

Took these just after finishing her.

At the end she is not what I waited to finish, and I have found some places to paint better, but for now I am OK with her. I'm not good at retouching "finished" projects, not on paper and not in a shape of a sculpt. Who knows if I could still retouch a canvas painting as they're not my daily thing to do, like drawings...

Kippo is photogenic...

...and ugly.

Oh what the toe, in fact, in one and half of months I have finished more dolls than even started a drawing. Damn.

Anyway. Kippura is not going to under a paintbrush anymore. Instead of it, I let her take a stack of selfies (really many of them are detail photos of her nose, ehe hee):

That is clearly her better side, the innocent right eye.

Nose selfie - noselfie. Stupid angle.

Worse, worse, worse... The ugly side!

Nooo it was not even all... Sorry, but I like to photograph this doll.

I don't notice her skull spots todays, I see just a cute rat in a way rats are.

Contrast added in PSP 7 for fun.

Hmmm... A zombie...?

If anyone is wondering, after checking the text I linked previously... Hupi seemingly had enough patience to wait, and finally met the black lady. Both are dumbos, what are quite rare in Finland (no one breeds them here), and that's also why I don't sculpt them too much as I want to keep things quite realistic.

One thing I want to do well and also look that it does, is to make possible that the doll rides in right positions and fits to the horseback well enough (as well as possible, I don't own any saddles, except some stupid saddle-like leather things I've made). For my harm, I think Kippo isn't the best rider ever... And it doesn't help that I hardly dare to bend her limbs as I fear I break the clays.

All the stupidness in those bridles comes from the bit. Luckily they are detachable from the straps.

Her vest fools a lot, it doesn't really fit her.

(Continued to write this after too long pause, I just don't feel like a writer now...)

Need to giggle how just this one is the doll I see most effective when bending it to different positions. As I make rat dolls, they normally have quite long tails, and that's helpful with posing dolls. She also has good expressions who look OK in photos, in my opinion.

I tried to get photos where the idea is to show a freaking out horse. That chain doesn't help with trying to make it look believable.

From all my dolls, Kippura is one of the most photogenic. She is ugly, but she is meant to be! Not a rare decision from me. She's my first doll who got a recognizable mohawk and fits so well to my world I write and draw. It's build around rats and rat anthros. Here's a digital doodle, showing a random Corpsepainter design I am going to keep wholly myself (I like it too much), and who possibly gets his own anthro doll (or just a clay sculpture in some form) someday:

His name is Malicious. The lineart is bad, drawn with mouse only, but ehm.

As a personality she is heavily introverted, artistic and quite male-like. Kippura likes cats too much, and all her cats have been rescued housecats from an animal shelter. At 2017, she adopted a rat, Ripoff Sideviewer, from Asko's Corpsepainter herd; Siwi was too often tormented by his herdmates, so guys decided to get him a new apartment. Now he lives in a terrarium and is unofficially owned by Kippo.

Kippo being almost ready to go, while Tumpula is yet stretching his limbs... And another cat commands his feeder to give some attention.

Ryysis, a male farm cat.

Ryysis can't accept that his feeder needs to go work...

Sideviewer.

She has also a horse, a weird leopard spotted gelding called Otto. He was also a rescue animal, just one from Kippo's herd of creatures with less good histories.

When Kippo came to the stable... I don't know how it happened, I never really photographed it. Maybe she knew some guys from internet and found out that hey, they live closely enough, she could go there to get a horse life!

One meeting I have captured, and it was her and Cerys's first meet. I guess Kippo was amused while Cerys didn't know how to be, but they get along well enough. I even think that Cerys has already accustomed to see Kippo, although both are something weirdest ever...

At all, she has already good friendship built with Rämä and Juoru, and these three together are 'known' as the youth of the stable. Kippo is oldest, but she fits too well to those with her personality. Except that she is smartest?

I see personalities.

When I publish this text, I have already few more to publish. About dolls mostly... But as said, I have something else too, in different scales and really about model horses and their tack. I also have some photo stories to show - few photos from them are seen in this text.