For the last couple of weeks I’ve been busy creating a merman - as per instructions from the mermaid (Sealia - yes she got a name finally). For my sins I had to spend long periods of time staring at photos of male anatomy to get the musculature right (I know, poor me right?!!) Making a male figure is a new thing for me so I had fun trying to get it right. Making a male face was a challenge, still not sure it’s perfect, perhaps I should have given him a beard…? I had a lot of fun searching the internet for male hair styles and I was very pleased with the whacky hair do I ended up creating. I gave him a nice modern undercut with his anemone dreads!
He seemed to enjoy his photo shoot, and looks good with the shell full of “pearls”. I hesitate to say he has a necklace - lets call it a chest adornment - another score for my extensive beading collection. Next step is the making of the merfolk “throne”. This is proving harder than I thought, but I have some ideas percolating.
I gave him a couple of arm tattoos, and fins on his back and tail. Lots of fun playing with ideas. His body and tail have a wire armature so they are posable. I am rethinking my previous dislike of armatures as I started another creature this week with a complete armature and the possibilities for movement and posing are much more satisfying now that I am more skilled with the needle felting. More on that next week…