ok i love all of these, amd i am a furry so seeing other peoples fursonas/fursuits makes me really happy

RANT TIME

So I have been testing my hand recently at refurbishing. I really like it! You never know what you're going to get in the mail to work on, and it's fun to get them looking cute again and find them a home. This panda was a huge challenge, but I decided to go for it, because I thought it had potential.

I saw these pictures of this matted up dude and was like, "Oh heck yeah. I'll give that a try"

So I bought it. And then I got it and was like.

"Fuck."

Yeah so this person clearly never washed this head before and probably smoked in it, because the fur was all yellow tinged. I just noticed that you can see what sort of looks like a booger or ear wax on panda's mouth and how grubby it was looking at that point.

IT WAS WORSE IN PERSON BRO.

So this suit was even more gross in person. The fur was matted down to the head by gunk, and the eyes had orange stuff crusted around the edges. I'm definitely thinking that the previous owner at the very least smoked in this head. They sent it to me wrapped entirely in scented dryer sheets and 3 garbage bags. It was not classy, my dudes.

Panda needed to be washed ASAP. Here is a picture of the second deep hand wash that I did. You can see how his fur is starting to turn bright white again...and also how fucking dirty the water was. :) 100%, this head was not taken care of whatsoever. The panda was washed with the arm sleeves and hand paws that I got with it that were falling apart.

This was panda after he started getting fixed up! I had spent awhile brushing out his fur after he dried and had begun trimming up his face (mostly his lower lip, because the fur was just so matted there). The holes for his eyes were unfortunately uneven, so I was having a really tough time figuring out how I should make his eyes. I generally go for the ones that are mostly inside of the head, so they don't rest on the outside of the face, but that was the only way that I was going to achieve any sort of evenness here, so I went with that. I hope you can see that his eyes were finally even after I gave him new ones. I went with a bright green/dark green eye and a bright green/blue eye to give him some originality. Otherwise, he's literally just a panda and there isn't much going on with him design wise. I do think he turned out pretty cute though, all things considered!

Here you can see his full transformation! I am pretty happy with how far he's come. My favorite part about him ended up being his eyes and eyebrows. They're different from my usual, but I like that. :D Look at how white he got too! I was amazed at how well handwashing went for this head, considering how absolutely disgusting this head was when I got it. The head no joke felt like it lost some weight after it had been cleaned. So much gunk. So much gross.

tl;dr, I cleaned a really gross panda and I think he looks acceptable now.

Thank you!!<3

Hey, what do you know. I've been being really productive recently.

Finally finished the butterfly fox. The wings are fun to flappy.

I also custom dyed a mask for the first time.

This was the before--

And a second time, because I liked doing it so much. Same starting mask. :> I really like using this as a base. I'm actually looking into buying a few more, because I ended up liking the dyeing process so much.

Semi unrelated, but I make custom furbies now. :>

This is Gavin. He has black and white feathers all over his back. He also still works. He likes to sleep and then wake up screaming.

These are posting sideways, but I'm not going to fix it. :,)

Feb.-themed

It has the Aquarius symbol on the other ear and is purple for Feb.'s birthstone. :)

Anyway

I bought a panda suit to fix up, so stay tuned for that. :)

this is actually really cool!

Thank you!! :D