Ideas for Creature Making

A roly poly soot dragon. The current idea, and the many iterations of it. I have a large box of donated fur coats to make creatures out of. Normally i wouldnt pick real fur to work with, but the coats are not in good enough of shape to be worn or donated for anything else, so I shall make creatures. So far I have mostly brown, dark rust, and black fur, with a little faux gray and really cheap tan. So cheap I'm having second thoughts about using it at all. Maybe to practice with.c

Creature Making Inspiration

this one is mine

Its hard to define the kinds of creatures I want to make, but done of the first steps that I can do it find things like it.
I have quite a bit of random materials, and would love to populate a craft booth with creatures like these.


This  is a good example of the kind I want to make:
http://www.dollmakersdream.com/free-polymer-clay-tutorials-creature-6.html

Its semi realistic, soft bodied, and also has polymer clay sculpting.










Also like these:
http://santani.deviantart.com/art/I
nari-Foxes-418720127

http://lisatoms.deviantart.com/art/Silver-aqua-dragon-spirit-411076252

http://wood-splitter-lee.deviantart.com/art/SOLD-Poseable-Hand-Made-Baby-Fum-420878939

http://scenceable.deviantart.com/art/Exalt-435968577

Polymer Clay Sculpted Creatures In Progress

Well, here's a bunch that are waiting for more clay and more sculpting. I found myself doing too many giraffe like creatures so I branched out in to turtles and scorpion dudes.

I have used up almost 12 yards of armature wire in the past two days. Some of the wire has gone to my felted creatures.

Felted Creatures for Etsy, Craft Fairs, and Practice

A beginner at felting creatures, I declare this one DONE. And it looks like a Pokemon.

He looks more blue in this picture.
I got tired of jabbing him over and over again so I wet felted for bit. This may have made too tight of a felt for putting the doo-dads on him, because it was hard, and broke a needle!













I start with an armature that looks a bit like this:

The proportions were different for this one, however.

Dabbling in Polymer Clay Creatures!

Armatures for polymer clay creatures.

I'm new to armatures for polymer clay, and so I'm going to list resources that help me.  I've been using steel wire covered with crumpled aluminum foil to help bulk out the form, and therefore use less polymer clay. But I want more tips on making anatomically correct armatures for animals.

http://www.squidoo.com/armatures 
http://joshuamosley.com/tutorials/claymationArmature/armature.html 
http://evasion.imag.fr/Membres/Franck.Hetroy/Projects/Skeleton/gallery.html

 Here's the concept of one of my creatures, and the final little dude. My sister bought a smaller similar creature for $20. I dyed the feathers too.