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My first dive into fursuit making, starting with trying to make the head. I am really pleased with how it looks so far since it's my first time ever doing anything like this before It's far from perfect and the symmetry isn't all that great, but I think once I get the fur on it should hopefully even it out.

I started by assembling this head base pattern , which is not bad, but I wanted to try adding onto it to better fit the look that I was going for. First I made the muzzle larger and more square-ish since I'm going to be making a Princess pony (Cadance, if the eyes don't give it away), and then I found myself adding more and more foam to it that ended up changing the look quite dramatically. The whole thing is now larger and more round with fuller cheeks and forehead. Also since Cadance has her own unique eye shape which the original pattern was not built around, I had to do a lot of carving into the eye sockets and then adding more foam around where the eyes would go, since I used a hard plastic-like material that has no bend to it and it would not flex around the head shape. I then designed my own ears and snip snipped away at the inner part. I think the ears came out great, but I have a suspicion that once the fur is on all that detail is going to be lost Also I put some air vents at the base of the ears since this is a closed mouth design, though I'm going to probably suffocate inside of it anyways.

The eyes came out pretty good as well. Again, not perfect, as each eye has their own little blemishes from mistakes I made, and the 'follow me' effect doesn't really work because of the eye style that I designed. To me this isn't a big deal since solving issues like this simply comes with experience -- I really didn't have any way of knowing what eye styles would work better for follow me eyes prior to making them. I also managed to pull off the glossy look that I desired so much. Though you can't really see it in the pictures, they're pretty reflective and you get a lot of light bouncing off of them.

More WIPs of my fursuit venture will come as I make more progress on it.

Description
My first dive into fursuit making, starting with trying to make the head. I am really pleased with how it looks so far since it's my first time ever doing anything like this before It's far from perfect and the symmetry isn't all that great, but I think once I get the fur on it should hopefully even it out.

I started by assembling this head base pattern , which is not bad, but I wanted to try adding onto it to better fit the look that I was going for. First I made the muzzle larger and more square-ish since I'm going to be making a Princess pony (Cadance, if the eyes don't give it away), and then I found myself adding more and more foam to it that ended up changing the look quite dramatically. The whole thing is now larger and more round with fuller cheeks and forehead. Also since Cadance has her own unique eye shape which the original pattern was not built around, I had to do a lot of carving into the eye sockets and then adding more foam around where the eyes would go, since I used a hard plastic-like material that has no bend to it and it would not flex around the head shape. I then designed my own ears and snip snipped away at the inner part. I think the ears came out great, but I have a suspicion that once the fur is on all that detail is going to be lost Also I put some air vents at the base of the ears since this is a closed mouth design, though I'm going to probably suffocate inside of it anyways.

The eyes came out pretty good as well. Again, not perfect, as each eye has their own little blemishes from mistakes I made, and the 'follow me' effect doesn't really work because of the eye style that I designed. To me this isn't a big deal since solving issues like this simply comes with experience -- I really didn't have any way of knowing what eye styles would work better for follow me eyes prior to making them. I also managed to pull off the glossy look that I desired so much. Though you can't really see it in the pictures, they're pretty reflective and you get a lot of light bouncing off of them.

More WIPs of my fursuit venture will come as I make more progress on it.