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merimask ([personal profile] merimask) wrote2009-05-15 01:09 pm

New Kitsune!

I did it!  I totally redesigned the kitsune so that they'd be 20% larger, yet have the same proportions of the smaller original kitsune mask.  See?  New one on the left, old design on the right for comparison.
  
Shaping will always play a role with these because they have such a simple outline, but really I think I came pretty darn close.  Below are two more of the new larger kits (both available right now in my Etsy shop).




Really, to my eye, you can't tell these are significantly larger than the old design, which was my goal.  I'm just going to stop making the smaller mask entirely.   These are generic enough to fit just about anyone, so it's a safer bet that more people will be happier with these.

I know it seems like a silly thing to fret so much over one design, but I hate it when people have a problem with something I made.  It feels like failure to me.  Plus, the kitsune is so darn popular.  I just want it to be as perfect as I can make it. 
 
In other news; it is a gorgeous day out there.  I am going for two bike rides...not one but two!   *smooch*  Hope you are all having lovely, wonderful Fridays out there.  ^_^

[identity profile] madshutterbug.livejournal.com 2009-05-15 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
One wonders, one does, are the eye-openings (or the masks themselves) large enough to allow wearing eyeglasses underneath? Also, without a measuring device in the photograph, they certainly don't look much larger. They don't look much different (other than individual decoration, say) from each other at all, so you did a grand job getting the proportions correct.

[identity profile] merimask.livejournal.com 2009-05-15 05:48 pm (UTC)(link)
Hmm...not really compatible with eyeglasses. Some can be worn over the front but rarely underneath (unless they are really small frames). Everyone has different frames too so there's no way to make a generic "eyerglasses" mask. It's wear contacts or go a little fuzzy-sighted while you're wearing the mask. ^_^

A lot of people with glasses just wear the mask higher, over their forehead, sort of like a baseball cap.

[identity profile] madshutterbug.livejournal.com 2009-05-15 06:13 pm (UTC)(link)
It is Herself that's commenting on the eyeglasses; I believe she has worn contacts in the past, is not currently. Me? That's one of my ... squicks. Foreign Objects In/On Eye. No. Just, No. However, I am willing to wear Otter & let the World be blurry. *G* I mean, if there's something I need to read, I can shift things about.

As for any models in Studio, they won't need to read anything while wearing Kitsune. *G*