Dzi (dizdzi) wrote in fursuit,

Gyphon/bird sculpt...[edit] Made an "all is dog"-type cat

I've been meaning to do this for a while now, so while the internet was down earlier I decided to sculpt up a bird/gryphon head since I keep having issues with my large cat mold. 


I was kind of curious if I can get a couple suggestions on it. I made the eyes insanely large just so I can easily add in epoxy to turn them into a more realistic one, or just go ahead and pop in toony eyes, which has worked well on the heads I've done so far like this (which I really need to upload, but I'm lacking trimmers so none of them are done yet :c )

I was thinking of making one shorter version and one longer version of this just so it will work with a few more bird species, can anybody see anything else I should fix while I'm at it?

[edit] Forgot the mention that I didn't plan on adding in nose holes since, for example, canaries have very prominent ridges on theirs compared to say...a hawk. Or a cardinal, which the sculpt doesn't reflect perfectly but seeing as gryphons are a mixed animal I just based it roughly off of a somewhat neutral shape that I could manage, ahaha. I'll see what I can do about making the eyes look smaller and the beak a bit less bulky for a less toony shape though, but I plan on attempting a realistic one to see how it'll turn. :D Thank you everybody!

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Hurp instead of modding the head I decided to durp around with it and it kind of turned into a cattish thing. Though I've seen enough "Everything is dog" heads that I can likely get away with it, the way it looks now, but this one I'll definitely make changes to after I take the first mold off of it. I already casted the bird head and plan on doing another one after messing with the cat one a bit. The only reason why I am deciding to keep it the way it is now instead of making some major changes off of it, is that I know some people with more chubby-faced feline characters that the changes I'm going to make after this (going straight off of a feline skull reference next time instead of only looking at fuzzy faced felines like the durp I was) will have much more prominent bone structure to bring out the more cat-like features instead of leaving it questionably more like a dog. But I'd love more opinions on it, redlines would be awesome. 

[EDIT] I made a cat..ish sculpt now. I posted that up as well. Click on the cut to see pictures

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