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DAY 2 PROGRESS (aka: autism win! local creature spends several hours making a cardboard replica of their torso. and also more bones)

Clavicle time!! doing the same method as beforr, aka wire armature under paper clay. I sculpted them flat, and then shaped them on to my body to get their proper 3D curve

this led me to be like, huh, having a dress form/dummy would be really helpful, too bad I don't have one and they are SO expensive. anyway, look at all these moving boxes from like 2 years ago that i never threw away.

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now we are cooking with gas.

onto scapula time! I printed one out because my drawings were NOT working out. the average scapula is about 9.5 cm across acording to a study I found, I made them a bit bigger at around 10-11cm across. for the vibes.

The wire armature looks very fun IMO. Also, I forgot to take a pic of this part but I basically lined up vertebra 2-7 in order to get the spacing of the hooks correct. The vertebrae are gonna attach to ribs that will attach to the scapula.

Fun anatomy fact! generally, the spine of the scapula aligns with the T3 vertebrae

sculpting process ft. art assistant reminding me to take breaks.

TA DA! here they are, and as symmetrical as they are going to get. in my opinion it fucks and i'm extremely pleased. i also DEFINITELY did not expect any of this to turn out looking this good but turns out Studying The Bone has its perks.

I'm glad I made the torso (theriverbeyond 2, if you will) because I want the scapulae to dry on a curve and i do not know how I would do that symmetrically without it. Paper clay takes about (?) 3 days to fully dry and so I definitely want to wait before I start connecting things

Next steps: ribs! rib 1 is going to be sort of like a collar (load bearing ribs, basically--i habe a plan) and the rest are just there to hang out. YAYYYYYYYY

just made some BONES :3 (aka I'm finally starting a Harrow cosplay and obviously the rigcage is first. day 1 progress pics and process under the cut)

I have a PLAN for the ribcage, and we shall see if it can come to fruition. if all else fails, I will still have some sick wall art 👍

Pt. 1 is making the sternum, I'm embedding a wire armature for support and also to integrate secure rings-i-can-attach-other-bones-to directly into the bone, to hopefully minimize future cosplay emergencies and malfunctions. I AM making the sternum 3 different articulating bones, because they are important #TO ME

I'm using paper clay (which i have never used before) because I have a very contentious relationship with foam clay and I dislike baking things in my oven (its a very bad oven. and very small). Trying lots of new things so let's see what happens!

Pt 2 is the vertebrae. I want to make a spine that goes down the back over MY spine, so I'm making basically the entire thoracic section, posterior part only as it is like, on my body. Cutting it at the pedicles if you catch my drift. Using wire again for both structural and rings-to-attach-other-bones reasons.

Fun fact, a good way to remember if you are looking at thoracic vertebrae is "does it look like a giraffe?". (lumbar vertebrae look like moose. meese?)

I'm basically making the connection between vertebrae happen at the junction of the articular facets, aka not sculpting those and keeping that part as wire only. I also has a really fun time making vertebrae that *progressed* from T1 to T12, aka from "looks kimda like cervical" to "looks kinda like lumbar". Definitely not perfect but good enough IMO. Yippee!

definitely should have like, considered rib attachment and such when I was making the armature for the vertebrae BUT i forgot. so we ball. I think I will attach them to the main articulating chain and just like... attempt to space it out with jump rings. we shall see if it works.

Next steps are scapulae, clavicles, and ribs. Still sorta unsure how ribs 1-4 ish are going to work due to my arms being in the way but I will figure that out when I get there 👍

#harrow cosplay progress tag #cosplay progress tag #trb.txt #zoom day for class means. well. this

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ugh whatever 🙄 [drinks your blood with one of these]

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