Shiny Things Gallery | Fandom | Final Fantasy | Chocobos | Crash the Sand Dweeb
You're looking for who? Oh no, no, this is Crash! Crash the Sand Dweeb! He's a very big fan of Vash the Stampede, but as you can see, he's a bird!
Well. I kinda had to. I realized this early on, unfortunately, and had some time to form it all in my mind, which immediately imploded. As for whether this is a chocobo, a toma, or a chocotoma... yes! Excellent, glad that's settled. He's got a fully wired neck, legs, toes, tail feathers, wings, and primary feathers for posability, and this year the wings can pivot forward and backward a bit for extra expression, along with a jaw joint that allows the top and bottom beak to pose independently of each other. He can grasp very small light things, but not... well. ...It's not a grippy yarn.
This time I decided to try natural fiber yarn all the way through, as a bit of a personal challenge. The sandy gold superwash merino I decided to make bulk of the body was... very different from what I was used to, so my process had to change pretty quickly. Luckily in having to put pieces together instead of making the body as one large piece, it left me opportunities to include subtle "scars" where I just didn't smooth out the joining bits. The beak, legs and "prosthetic" wing are all baby alpaca yarn, and I had a much easier time of that. Only the tongue is a scrap of old acrylic yarn, because the color was too good to pass up on. Back to the "prosthetic" wing, the lovely (and perfectly colored) wire is from a friend who has accidentally managed to fill every wire requirement I might have for the next several years, but particularly this one. As for the eyes, they were too perfect to pass up; semi-frosted, reflective, aquamarine or blue depending on the angle of the light, and appear to glow from most angles. The claws are ancient glass beads I've had forever, as is the fabric I used to make the coat. All by hand, no pattern, just determined to make a coat for a small bird. Like you do. As for the glasses, I spent quite a while trying to decide how to accomplish those, but in the end buying some small round acrylic blanks and trying a few different methods for keeping them in place worked. Eventually. I may have broken some in the process. ...Beadwork was the winner, with attached wire for the nose and ear pieces, and since I had no reason to give a bird a golden earring (birds got no earlobes!), I elected for a golden chain to drape between crest spikes to keep everything in place.
tldr; He took a really long time and a lot of love and effort, as per all my chocobos, and would love a donut, thank you.
Of special note, to go here because it must go somewhere: some choices were very much made with this being a worldwide, all-ages-focused charity item in mind. The more overt scars and gun, specifically, which are very important to the character himself. I'd considered the chest grate as well, but... as stated, this isn't Vash, this is Crash. And a bird doesn't really need a gun, right?
Geisterkarle won the auction with a high bid of $1,520.00! Thank you so much for your generosity!
Well. I kinda had to. I realized this early on, unfortunately, and had some time to form it all in my mind, which immediately imploded. As for whether this is a chocobo, a toma, or a chocotoma... yes! Excellent, glad that's settled. He's got a fully wired neck, legs, toes, tail feathers, wings, and primary feathers for posability, and this year the wings can pivot forward and backward a bit for extra expression, along with a jaw joint that allows the top and bottom beak to pose independently of each other. He can grasp very small light things, but not... well. ...It's not a grippy yarn.
This time I decided to try natural fiber yarn all the way through, as a bit of a personal challenge. The sandy gold superwash merino I decided to make bulk of the body was... very different from what I was used to, so my process had to change pretty quickly. Luckily in having to put pieces together instead of making the body as one large piece, it left me opportunities to include subtle "scars" where I just didn't smooth out the joining bits. The beak, legs and "prosthetic" wing are all baby alpaca yarn, and I had a much easier time of that. Only the tongue is a scrap of old acrylic yarn, because the color was too good to pass up on. Back to the "prosthetic" wing, the lovely (and perfectly colored) wire is from a friend who has accidentally managed to fill every wire requirement I might have for the next several years, but particularly this one. As for the eyes, they were too perfect to pass up; semi-frosted, reflective, aquamarine or blue depending on the angle of the light, and appear to glow from most angles. The claws are ancient glass beads I've had forever, as is the fabric I used to make the coat. All by hand, no pattern, just determined to make a coat for a small bird. Like you do. As for the glasses, I spent quite a while trying to decide how to accomplish those, but in the end buying some small round acrylic blanks and trying a few different methods for keeping them in place worked. Eventually. I may have broken some in the process. ...Beadwork was the winner, with attached wire for the nose and ear pieces, and since I had no reason to give a bird a golden earring (birds got no earlobes!), I elected for a golden chain to drape between crest spikes to keep everything in place.
tldr; He took a really long time and a lot of love and effort, as per all my chocobos, and would love a donut, thank you.
Of special note, to go here because it must go somewhere: some choices were very much made with this being a worldwide, all-ages-focused charity item in mind. The more overt scars and gun, specifically, which are very important to the character himself. I'd considered the chest grate as well, but... as stated, this isn't Vash, this is Crash. And a bird doesn't really need a gun, right?
Geisterkarle won the auction with a high bid of $1,520.00! Thank you so much for your generosity!
