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AC: Maneki Neko -Beckoning Cat sculpture

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My gift for :iconminogirl01: from :iconartcrossing:! Finally the gift arrived, so hopefully she liked it. ;U; So now I can finally upload the photos~.
The group is a bit like #OC-Art-Exchange or Postcrossing, but this time it's not just a trade for a character you decide, or even just post cards, it's for pretty much any form or traditional media~, based on a small written profile you get from the group. So you don't know who you're making for, nor who makes for you! Cool huh? It's been a while since I've made anything traditional besides random marker-doodles, so this should get me motivated to such, as you already can see~.

~Minogirl01 said in her profile that she collects Maneki Nekos (Lucky beckoning cat, or something. o3o ), so I decided to make her one of those. :dummy: I COULD have made something like a drawing of her favourite anime-characters, but.. I thought this would be more personal, huh? Hopefully this kitty looks fine in her collection. ;U;
I really haven't sculpted anything proper in years, so it was interesting to try that again. d:
It's not perfect, but I hope it's good enough; I actually had a hard time letting it go in the first place. XD I hope it gets there in one piece. Yap. I hope the post-office will treat the package nicely. >u<'' I DID put quite a bit of stuffing in. silk-paper, bubblewrap, newspapers.. With comics on them. xD I specifically chose newspaper pages with comics. Though the comics are a bit 'Wut?'. |D

I made it from uh... *Checks the label* Cernit modelling clay? Yap, I think that's it. XD And the base I made of, like *Cheru-Hime taught me, tinfoil! XD The sculpture is now nice an light thanks to that, and makes it also a bit more difficult to break. ^^
The yellow parts were painted with acrylics, but then I decided that my hands were WAY too shaky to make decent stripes with a paintbrush, so I made all the smaller details with different markers. :nod: I looked up different cat-designs on Google and combined them together for this. XD Heck, the white cats looked so plain, but some of the cats had this adorable yellow-and-brown striped pattern on them and bawww~, I had to do something like that. XD
And funny thing.. When I was just aout to finish it, I noticed that I had no red ribbon! I had purple, white, black, light blue, light blue with plaid.. But no red! So I just took a part of the white ribbon and coloured it red with Copics. 8'D It looked surprisingly nice. And it stiffened the ribbon a bit, so it prolly will stay closed better. : O How strange. 8'3
And the gold-paint hated me. >:c But I got somewhat decent a surface from it anyways. |D

Now I can't wait for the school's matriculation exams to be over so I will have more free time and request another profile to work on! But for the next few weeks or so.. Way too busy with school. OTL Gotta read ALL the geography/geology books! :iconallthethingsplz:
And you know, I kinda wanna make a similar statue like this for myself. Though prolly not of a cat.. Beckoning-Bolero, how would that sound? 8DD
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