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Here's another addition to my tiny fluffy foxes: two matching little critters with pink and brown tails! I sometimes like to imagine they're twins, or perhaps a pair of besties!

I made the brown first as more of an experiment to see how that color of wool would look on a tail. After it came out differently than I expected, I quickly got an idea of what to use it for, but I knew I'd want to make a matching pink-tailed fox as well. It also worked out, as the particular pink I used, which I'd gotten from a previous Hamanaka Aclaine kit, was one I'd had trouble figuring out what to make with initially.

Like the rainbow-tailed fox and donut I shared recently, these two have since been paired with matching little desserts of their own, which I hope to share photos of later. Can you guess what I gave to each of them? (Hint: I chose the same dessert for both foxes, but each is in its respective fox's tail color!)

While I feel I could definitely improve in some places, such as how one of the wires in the feet ended up breaking accidentally at some point while making the pink-tailed fox, these two little guys are a notable milestone, in that they're the first tiny foxes I've made entirely with Hamanaka Aclaine wool! Except for Rainbowtail, the foxes I've made thus far have used Aclaine for everything except the eyes, since I didn't have that kind of wool in black yet. But now, I've got enough different colors of Aclaine to try out a bunch of different designs, and I'd like to get even more someday!

I'd definitely like to continue exploring cute little fluffy fox designs, but for now, I hope you enjoy these two!

After my first success at making a tiny fluffy fox, I knew I had to try making another on! But instead of doing more regular fox colors, I decided to try visualizing an idea I've had in my mind for a while: a gold platinum red fox, but with pink instead of orange!

Instead of felting the feet down, I used this fox to test a new technique for finishing small ends on a piece of wire: applying a small amount of glue from a glue stick and twisting the fibers between my fingers until they're smooth and tight and less prone to coming loose. I think it worked out pretty well, so I've been using it going forward for making feet on these smaller figures. I'd also like to test how this technique works on other kinds of appendages, like maybe mouse tails or deer antlers.

Besides that, this fox has a wire armature just like the first, so it's somewhat poseable too. Also like the first, it's made almost entirely with Hamanaka Aclaine wool save for the eyes and nose, which I think really adds to the colors! I was running out of brown wool for the tail though, so it's a bit less fluffy than the first, but overall I still like the way this little guy came out! I will probably try to make this design again to see if I can improve it, but for now, this little one is quite satisfying!

Hope you guys enjoy it!

After I figured out how to plant fluffy fur using wool batting instead of roving, I wanted to see if I could do it on a smaller scale. One and a half practice attempts later, I fashioned this little fox out of leftover Hamanaka Aclaine wool, save some black wool for the eyes and nose.

Needless to say, I absolutely love how this little guy turned out! The look and feel of the fluffy fur all over makes it almost reminiscent of those little flocked animal charms I've heard about. But it being a fox, one of my favorite animals, and also being handmade, makes it even cuter in my opinion! I also just adore how the fur on the tail looks, being just fluffy enough while also holding a solid shape. And like I normally do for my animal figures, it's also semi-poseable thanks to a little wire armature!

Just like with the big cross fox I made, this little one makes me want to create more tiny fluffy foxes! But for now, I hope you enjoy this little guy as much as I do!

Just figured I'd share a few photos of a new felted fox figure I'm working on! It's a bit smaller than the figures I've posted so far, but I felt the size I chose would leave it big enough for me to effectively see how the fur colors I wanted to experiment with would look. For this fox, I want to try a design I've been wanting to bring to life for a while now, so hopefully the fur planting goes well and the color scheme looks as nice as it did in my head!

On a side note, does anyone have any tips for keeping stray fibers in line when felting small details on top of a different color? I feel like oftentimes, when I try to add black wool to make eyelashes on an otherwise white face, little strands of the black wool keep sticking out and making the eyes look messy next to the rest of the head. Maybe I'm overestimating how much it affects the look of a figure, but if there's any solution to making small details neater, I'd love to hear it!

(Not incest)

Happy Feng Friday everyone!

I was feeling a little lonely, so I decided to make a fluffy drawing of Fuxi and Nuwa cuddling and just being in love to cheer me up! Although I got carried away with adding to and refining the drawing (particularly with trying to keep the perspective more accurate), so the result is more polished than my typical sketches!

I'd like to go into detail about a particular choice I had to make with this drawing, and some small headcanons surrounding it. While I chose to put Nuwa in her banquet outfit so her silhouette would be more visible, I was debating whether to draw her lotus feet fully exposed or have her wear some kind of socks to cover them. The latter was what I drew originally, but I ended up going with the former after reconsidering. I felt Nuwa exposing her deformed feet without shame or fear of a negative reaction could better suggest how comfortable and safe she feels around Fuxi. Furthermore, while I like the idea that Fuxi felt guilty about not having known about and stopped Nuwa's foot binding earlier for quite some time—although plenty of factors played a role in that, including how they were both naïve kids when the binding was going on, how Fuxi didn't like Nuwa enough to pay close attention to her, and how Nuwa actively hid her pain and difficulty of walking until Fuxi found out—her showing her feet to him when they cuddle could suggest Fuxi's overcome said guilt enough to accept that part of her and all the challenges that come with it. In other words, Nuwa's misshapen feet may not look as appealing when exposed, but I think showing them could actually make the drawing sweeter from a storytelling perspective!

Anyway, I think this is actually the first romantic Fuxi/Nuwa artwork I've made since, at the earliest, that birthday doodle I made at the start of July. And if I don't count that or the one that's not up anymore, then my last drawing of this sort was... a whopping 5 months ago, according to Reddit! Needless to say, I'm really craving some soft Feng art right about now! And until I can find other fans on this subreddit who are willing to unironically explore the romantic implications between Fuxi and Nuwa (without the incest, of course), it seems I'll need to keep my tablet out so I can satisfy my cravings with more Fengshipping drawings of my own!

Either way, I hope you enjoy the art as well!

Happy Feng Friday everyone! This might be a bit different from the art I've been sharing so far, but I figured today could be a good time to inquire!

After a sudden burst of inspiration, I managed to come up with an idea for something that could be a legitimate Fuxi and Nuwa-focused fanfic! I'm thinking it may serve as a sort of polished, more in-universe introduction for my Bounded AU, if not some kind of prologue should I decide to make the AU into a multi-chapter fanfic or a series of fanfics, depending on what I want to do with it. As a short summary, but to avoid spoiling it, the overall idea for the fic as of now basically involves Fuxi and Nuwa in their tween to early teenage years having a rather rough experience from an ambitious stunt gone wrong, yet unexpectedly growing closer together because of it.

This story is only an outline so far, albeit a pretty detailed one. Even though I want to realize this idea as a finished fanfic, I'm quite out-of-practice when it comes to writing full stories in narrative prose as opposed to just general ideas and plans for stories. Is there anyone out there who'd be willing to share advice or feedback on the concept and current outline, and ideally, someone who'd like to help me turn it into a fanfic worth sharing?

Here's a figure I made soon after the rough collie! I really wanted to test out my new fur-planting technique on a fluffy fox tail, and since it was around October at the time, I thought a cross fox would be a fitting subject for their Halloween-y black-and-orange colors. Likewise, I tried varying the expression on this vixen a little to make her look more serious and sly-looking.

Honestly, it was actually pretty hard to make a figure covered mostly in black. I struggled to lay the black wool atop the core wool without little "cracks" of core wool showing up. I think I even had to cut off and redo the snout entirely with black wool for that reason. But the result was definitely worth it!

Hope you enjoy!

Happy Feng Friday! Here's this little sketch, plus some AU stuff to explain it!

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A core idea I want to have throughout the Bounded AU story is Fuxi and Nuwa struggling to deal with the weight of their respective expectations as they grow up, and the contrast between how they handled it as kids versus how they treated it once they'd matured more. The biggest expectation, other than Fuxi having to eventually lead the whole Feng clan, would be that he and Nuwa will have to get married to each other someday, despite initially having no idea what that really meant and originally seeing each other as little more than rather reluctant siblings at best.

I imagine that, as a child, Nuwa played much more into their mother's attempts to get them used to their eventual roles as spouses, if only due to her generally being the more agreeable and easy to pressure of the pair. On top of that, she was a lot more energetic and curious in youth, so she'd pester her adoptive brother with all sorts of things whenever she managed to find him. Meanwhile, little Fuxi had made up his mind that he was not going to let his mother force him into this lifelong "duty" he had no choice in, especially if it meant being stuck with a girl he was liking less and less each day. He figured that, when he became Lord Feng, the first thing he'd do was get rid of whatever stupid rule said they had to get married to each other. So whenever Huaxu would try to get the kids to do couple things together as preparation for their adult roles, Nuwa would go all-in and even make up her own childish schemes to fulfill Lady Feng's expectations, all the while Fuxi would be trying to get away from both of them and their nonsense as soon and as often as possible.

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The idea that Fuxi and Nuwa didn't actually have a normal sibling relationship or even a good relationship as kids (due to the pressures they faced from the Feng clan and/or their clashing responses to it) isn't an idea I had when I first thought of a shim-pua Nuwa AU, but I think there's some interesting potential in it. Of course, this is all subjected to revision as I work out the details of this AU, but just getting it out and receiving any feedback on these things helps a lot!

Anyway, hope you enjoyed this! Let me know what you think!

Another older figure, this time of a whitetail deer! Since Bambi is one of my favorite movies, I really wanted to try my hand at making a deer. Plus, it was the first time I tried to make antlers on a felted figure, so that was definitely a learning experience!

If I'm ever in the mood for it, it'd be nice to felt some more deer. Some of the new techniques I've learned could come quite in handy!

Here's this rough collie I made as an experiment to try planting fluffy fur with carded wool instead of roving. It turned out way better than I expected, and I just love how the warm brown colors turned out! I'd say it's still one of my favorite needle felted figures so far!

POV: you're in a loving-your-cat competition and your opponent is Shuanshuan

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I realized that August 8th this year is apparently International Cat Day. Even though I'm late, I figured I'd make a cute little Nine Sols doodle to celebrate, given how well I think it fits! Hope you enjoy it as much as Shuanshuan enjoys spending time with his favorite cat-man Yi!

Happy Feng Friday! I know I'm technically late for that, and I know this isn't focused on the main Fengs, but hopefully you guys still enjoy these sketches and ideas!

I decided to try my hand at drawing the Solarian I interpreted as being Fuxi's mother, who I'll call Huaxu (华胥) for now based on what I could find of the characters' original mythology. Regardless of whatever "plot" I choose for my Bounded AU, Huaxu will probably serve as a prominent and/or important character. Since Fuxi's Soulscape fragments seem to suggest she has or had decent authority in the Feng clan, I'm thinking, until Fuxi comes of age and assumes his position as a leader, Huaxu serves as the de facto leader of the Feng clan. Her role would likely be to manage the family's major affairs on her son's behalf, and she'd take primary responsibility over preparing him to be a proper leader when the time comes.

I'm considering her being sort of a "main antagonist" because it might just make sense for some of my ideas, but no matter the case, I want her to be nuanced rather than totally unsympathetic. I feel there's a lot I could do with her, and a lot of questions I may need to answer to make it work, but I'll see where she takes me eventually...

Sharing a little vixen I made a while ago, before I learned how to make fluffy fur. I should probably try my hand at making another red fox sometime soon!

NOTE: For now, unless I specify otherwise, all content I make for the Fengs, particularly any portraying them as a romantic couple, will take place in the context of this AU.

I may have mentioned it before, but I've been trying to craft a Feng-focused AU thing where Fuxi and Nuwa aren't biologically related, so I thought I'd at least get the idea out there! I might make a longer, more polished reference post later once I've solidified the details of the AU more.

The basic premise for this alternate universe is as follows: instead of being Fuxi's biological twin sister, Nuwa is a shim-pua daughter bought by the Fengs from another noble family and raised in their household so that she would become Fuxi's wife once the two came of age—an expectation which weighs heavily on both of them in different ways. The aspect of Nuwa not being a "real" Feng may impact her and Fuxi's history and relationship in this AU, but I'm still working on a lot of the specifics with this project. Overall, this AU will focus on exploring the nature of Nuwa and Fuxi's history and relationship more deeply, especially from a romantic or intimate lense, and offering an idea for how and why it have possibly developed in the first place.

If anyone is interested, I'm open to do peer review for my ideas to get feedback and brainstorm as I expand on this AU. I want to do my best with this little project!

Otherwise, hope you find this AU intriguing so far!

Here's a little doodle based on a Tumblr suggestion I got, along with a headcanon down below!

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I headcanon that, even before the whole Eternal Cauldron Project was a thing, Yi and Goumang already had a rivalry with each other. Goumang, having been a student of Eigong for longer (and having deep self-worth issues, though she'd refuse to admit it out loud) immediately felt rather threatened by the arrival of this daring new boy genius from the middle of nowhere, who somehow became Eigong's student seemingly just because of some science project gone wrong. Meanwhile Yi, having already gotten more than his fair share of criticism from his parents and peers, really wanted to savor this chance to indulge his scientific passions in peace without even more comments that this "isn't the place for him" and he'll never achieve anything good with it. As such, the two would get into frequent arguments, ranging from more serious matters to the pettiest of slights, and take many opportunities to criticize each other.

So yeah, I imagine the Goumang-Yi fight has gone on for a while. Both were at fault in their own ways, since Goumang was the aggressor overall, but Yi chose to respond with more defensiveness and hostility instead of trying to understand her perspective and/or defuse the situation. Thus, the Eternal Cauldron Project and the disaster of New Kunlun were just the nail in the coffin turning the relationship from tense to downright vicious.

Guess whose birthday this year just so happened to land on a Feng Friday—!!

I was hoping to celebrate by making some cute art of my current faves anyway, but the fact the special occasion was on just the right day of the week for Feng art was a neat little cherry on top! I figured I'd also throw some text in and have a little typography fun, since playing with text arrangement and making poster-like things is actually something I enjoy when I get the chance. And then I just threw in some Chinese words for added flare. Here's hoping I used the correct translation for "happy birthday"!

Anyway, hope you enjoy it! And happy Feng Friday to everyone out there!

Was in a pretty good mood last night, so I decided to draw Yi in a good mood too! It's kind of weird to see him definitively smiling for once, especially with his mouth open, but I was curious to see what it'd look like in my style.

What exactly is Yi so happy about, now? That's for you to interpret. But whatever it is, I hope you enjoy these doodles just as much!

Little meme I made based on this and inspired by a Tumblr suggestion! I'd like to explore the size difference between Yi and Lady Ethereal more seriously in the future, but for now, it seems like these silly little things are what's coming out. I mean, it is a fun little idea to joke about!

Hope you enjoy it!

Old Jiequan sketch. I kinda wanna try drawing him some more sometime soon, if I'm in the mood for it.