New masks

[merimask]

As promised, some pictures of my new masks.

They're not really "new", since I do these all the time.  I have a basic "half-mask" pattern that I trace out on the leather.  Then, with a stylus, I etch a dragon onto one side of the mask (most often with the wing sticking out beyond the edge 'cause I just like it that way), and then I cut out and carve the whole thing.  Usually, I do the mask in black and they look like this:


...but I felt like getting colorful so I did the blue & gold mask above, as well as these two:


I'm curious to see what people think of them.  I'll find out next week in Kalamazoo, I guess.

In other news, I am SO happy that our nation's multi-billion dollar Homeland Security Act has protected us from...Meatwad.  Way to go!  Yeah, I guess if you squint and tilt your head a little, the 'Lite-Brite" display of a Moononite flipping the bird might look like a bomb.  *sigh*  Maybe I'd be more inclined to be outraged by it all if the freaking displays hadn't been out in public for weeks and weeks...I guess they SUDDENLY looked bomb-like on Wednesday (wednesdays will do that to ya...more people don tinfoil hats on wednesdays than on any other day of the week...it's true!).  What's next, exploding Wile E Coyote displays?    Beware packages that look like HUGE anvils with "ACME" printed on the sides!  We need to coin a new term for this phenomenon; "Cartoon-Terrorism".

And OMG if Sessoumaru dies I am going to be monumentally pissed-off.  It'll cause a great disturbance in The Force...almost as if millions of fangirls "squeeee!" all at once, and are silenced.  Takahashi (as I was pointing out last week) has a penchant for using "one word" titles for the chapters where characters are killed off.  "Wind" for Kagura, "Light" for Kikyo, "Void" for poor little Kanna.  I swear if I see that next week's title is something like "Pride" I am just NOT going to read it.  *shakes head*

Comments

[merimask.livejournal.com]

Thank you...I like the red & white one best as well. :-) The colorful dragons are funny 'cause they look so demure! I usually draw them all fierce...oh well. That's the fun part about drawing them from scratch every time. Otherwise, it'd get boring pretty fast.

Hmm...I'm just worried about the whole Sess story arc because Takahashi's been taking a real slash and burn approach to her extraneous characters. Ever since Kagura's death I wouldn't give 2 cents for the life of any one of the supporting characters (I think Kouga saw the writing on the wall & barely escaped the fate of all the other "K" characters!). Who knows?

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Yes, but by comparison, it's really hard to call Sess a supporting character. Indeed, he isn't one of the main, but he's been such a strong character since so early on in the series that I think Takahashi would be committing suicide to take him down.

And she's stupid if she doesn't realize that. XD Kind of along those lines back last March when we thought she was going to take out Miroku... I know a LOT of people (and I was one of them) that swore I'd give up the series if she'd done that. XD

[merimask.livejournal.com]

I'm still not entirely convinced Miroku has escaped his fate. That potion he drank has ominous implications, imo. I have NO idea how she's going to save Kohaku either, unless saving his life is what they use the completed jewel's last wish for (I'd like that anyway 'cause it'd mean IY could keep his ears!). We're all either going to be gasping in admiration or outrage at the end of this manga...that's my prediction; gasping!

[pzb.livejournal.com]

Icon love, right there!!!! XD

Oh, yeah, I think if Miroku makes it out, it'll be by the skin of his teeth (LMAO Pippin was just pawing at Link on the TV screen XD). As for Kohaku, I'm leaning more toward what you predicted in your fic, especially now that he's part of Sess's cohort.

I sure hope we're all gasping, for our sake AND hers...After the let down of the end of Ranma, she owes her fans a solid ending. XD