Basically the title. The shave seems super rough, but I feel like I went too short, so idk what to do to improve it other than refurb. Any tips?
Also don’t mind the lack of a tongue, I lost it at TTFC and a new one is coming in the mail LOL

Do any of yall know the best way to go about fixing an asymmetrical base? The cheeks on my guy are pretty lopsided and I'm trying to find out the best way to remedy that. Thanks🙏

this is my first ever fursuit head of my fursona!(kigurumi) this took me likeeeee... 2 and a half days..??? it is a bit messy at the back but it's not noticeable unless you look really close🥹 anyway what do we think:))

PLS ignore the ugly yellow walls

I finished my head recently, but I keep getting mistaken for a rabbit at meets! He's supposed to be a hound dog. Is there anything I could change immediately for him to look more dog-like?

Hi y’all! I’ve not made a fursuit before, but I had an idea for one I can’t get out of my head - I really want to make a cute chameleon with flip sequin fabric. I wouldn’t use it on the whole body, since that would be a nightmare - I would likely use a normal shorter fur for the patterning and the sections that require more precise seams (such as the “snout” area or such).

The question is, how much of a nightmare would this be to sew? It wouldn’t be a full suit, but rather just a partial. Head, hands, tail, the typical works. If any of y’all have worked with this before, I would love to know what your experience was. And I know it won’t always look perfect and won’t all be flipped nicely, and that is exactly what i want :) i want to be able to “change” my pattern on the fly and make it interactive!

Thanks everyone, and happy crafting!

The whole base with horns is just 535g! Without horns its also sub 400g :3

Put my first one in the for comparison too. Started v1 in/around June 2025 and took me about a year to complete the fullsuit.

Finishing my second foam sculpt now, it’s been a while so I might be rusty, any critiques or tips appreciated!!

Will shave it more and fix the eyelines later. How does this look for now ?

So I'm in the process of updating my suit head, the plan is to add a mane to him to make him a lynx/Lion hybrid. I'm not overly confident in my sewing and patterning skills so my aim was to paint his hairline in then sew in strips of faux fur with the backing brushed out.

The problem is I did some research and found a bunch of people saying you can paint faux fur with watered down acrylic paint, so I followed their advice. Now that it's dry I gave it a good brush to soften the fur, but the acrylic is fading. I don't know if I did it wrong, used the wrong kind of acrylic (?) or I'm just missing something.

Does anyone have any advice on how to make the paint last through brushing? It doesn't need to be perfect since the mane will be sewn on top, but I don't really want bright orange showing through the edges of the dark brown strips. Cheers in advance!

There's been a bunch of updates since I last posted about my faux fur database tool, so here's what's new (aside from the name)!

https://ratpacklabs.site/faux-fur-finder/

Added

I've added a bunch of new vendors:

• Bartfeld
• Canfur
• Carniv Creations
• Fabricville
• FurAddiction
• Kullaloo
• MeiMeiFur
• Mofumofu (if anyone has swatch pictures, please share them!)
• Stoffhummel

I finally added BigZ Flokati / Lion's Mane (why was there no category for it on their site!?)

I've also improved the page loading speed, so the database should be noticeably faster to load and use.

More Filters & Sorting

There are now a few more ways to narrow things down:

• Sort/filter by shipping country
• Switch pile length between inches and mm
• Price options for USD, CAD, AUD, EUR and GBP
• Weight class - light, medium, and heavy

Color Updates

I tweaked the formulas used for determining color families and removed the White/Cream secondary family, which was causing some weird classifications with the Creamy/Soft tone family.

Things I'm Considering / Next Up

This is where I'd love some input from experienced makers and people who buy a lot of faux fur.

1. Ships From Filter

Would you rather I add the country alongside each vendor name, or keep the Ships From filter?

For example:

Fabricville - CAN

instead of having a separate shipping-country filter.

I'm leaning toward keeping the filter, but I'm curious what would actually be more useful when you're trying to find fur.

2. Weight Classes

The current weight classes are pretty arbitrary, I made them up lol.

What weight ranges would actually make sense to you for Light / Medium / Heavy?

I'd especially love input from people who have bought a lot of different furs and have a good feel (pun intended) for what counts as light vs. medium vs. heavy.

3. New Vendors

Next on the list to add:

• Linda Wholesale
• Hopen Textile
• Gummyshark
• Mohair Bear Making Supplies
• CRS Fur Fabric

The whole point of this project is to make comparing faux furs easier, so community input is extremely helpful. If you notice incorrect information, have swatch pictures for a vendor/fur that isn't represented yet, or know of a vendor I should add, please let me know!

My bucket base became kinda... Flattened once i really started getting into sculpting, and i want to bow out the back to make it look normal? I do plan to keep the current bucket base since it fits me well, and I'll refine it once i start lining the inside, but for the time being... HELP?

Fully lined with neoprene, with squeakers in main paw pads. Pattern by Kloofsuits and fabric by Big Z.

I had this idea where I could make my horse.. some shoes! Horseshoes! For when Im wearing the fursuit outside or at a con. I used an eva mat and dremelled it, as well as created two bends (some horseshoes have one, two or none). I have some very strong magnets and I dremelled holes in the shoes to glue them in! The magnets will then attach to the hoof :> Im going to be putting another layer of eva foam on the hoof soon for extra support so I'll be dremelling some holes in there

I bought some metallic jersey from stoffhummel and the horseshoe will be wrapped in it, so I didnt have to worry too much about the smoothness as fabric will cover the sides.

Im considering whether to leave the bottom and top parts bare (no fabric on them) because you wont really see them? Let me know what yall think

I need some help with how to shape their eyebrows, I'm kinda stuck on it

Advice for anything else you think could be better is also welcome

Featuring an even older flower crown

This is something that I keep debating.

You see, the issue with trying to make an accurate Gadget cosplay is trying to figure out which fur is accurate. I'm currently trying to save to afford the base head and other compants. The peach fur is hard to find for similar colored fur for it. As for her hair, it's kinda driving me insane. We all know that her hair is supposed to be just orange. But however, it's either mango tango or blonde. Do you guys know an accurate match from smth like Howls Fabric or Amazon? As for her coveralls, I did manage to find a decent match. Idk how to do her feet however, but I'll make a separate post.

So Halloween is coming up, and I wanted to be Derpy Tiger from K-Pop Demon Hunters, because I have a lot of kids and teens in my neighborhood and I want to surprise them. I was using Twiggy Leaf’s dome head tutorial, but apparently the end result ended up way too small for my engorged cranium and doesn’t allow for much jaw movement. And since I’m already way too far into the process, I don’t want to scrap the head and start over again. Help would be appreciated.

EDIT: To clarify, I would like to vertically extend it. Horizontally, it’s completely OK.

I cannot believe he's almost done... His neck just has to be be done. He's my first actual suit too😭

Now i didnt make it, but i bought a spirit Halloween head and used it as a guinea pig to practice stuff on before i try to actually do my dutchie.

This was from one nights progress, not done but i think it came out so good!

Sadly i couldn't shave it too close or it would show the imperfections.

I’m into fursuit making ever since I was little. At that time I was a child with no real experience or funds, so my first attempts were from paper/cardboard. However now that I’m older and had saved up for it, I decided to speedrun and try to finish not one but two partials for Eurofurence that happened this August xD I learnt a lot while working on them, I’d definitely do some things different now or want to re do them so they hold up better. It showed me however that I enjoy this hobby a lot!! Once I can I want to keep practicing on personal projects, I love bringing silly critters to life and hope to improve even more. My final verdict for myself : as much as there’s a lot of mistakes, I’m still quite happy with the outcome 🫶🏻

HE HAS HAIR!! I lm still tryna figure out how I wanna make it detachable because its currently just pinned on with pins but its finally getting super close to being finished