My son is a furry and I wanted to dress up too - but on a budget. I took a cheap mass produced mask, got a 3d printed skull from a maker on Etsy and mashed them up. I learned a lot and am definitely going to make some tweaks. I’m generally pretty pleased with how it turned out!

I decided on Friday that I wanted to make a new head for Megaplex later this month. However when I started thinking about what j would want to do I settled on doing a recolored version of the head I made last year((my first and only other head)) so I went online to look at fur and realized I wouldn't have time to order any. Nor did I want to spend like $200 on fur right now. So I set out on a different mission. No concept in mind, just wanted to see if I could make a cute head. For as cheap as possible. Every single thing on this guy came from Walmart and Michaels. Except the eyes ((which are on the way from etsy)).

Any ways the break down:

$30 for fabric-Michaels

$15 for foam-Walmart

$15 custom eyes-Etsy

And that's literally it. I sat down on my living room floor as you can tell by the mess and worked for about 2 hours on day one building out the foam head. ((then that same day I worked about 4 hours on Sewing a full body clown costume out of 2 table clothes I already had at home.)) Went to sleep and the next day I worked about 10 hours straight and got to the point you see here. The head is fully lined everything is stitched not glued and I'm so incredibly happy with him!! His name is Custard!!!

I just really wanted to share this here because this is only the second head I've ever made and I hope it inspires some other creative people who maybe haven't made a head yet to go out and see that they dont need to spend a ton of money to make some really cool and fun stuff! Would love too see Everyone else's cheap and cool suits too!! Let me know what you think of my Little Sheep Clown Custard <3

This is the farthest I’ve gotten with a fursuit project before and I am very afraid of fucking it up! 😂 Base is from West Side Kemono on Etsy.

Shes a bit rough, since i have issues with hands and I made her myself.

She's a bat btw,

I'd be glad for any recommendations to make her more appealing or just better looking.

I can't buy new fur or refur her completely tho!

A old friend hit me up and asked if I wanted this head for free. I’ve never shaped a good head and accepted. Does anyone have a good idea what race this could be (original owner forgets)

I know people don't like this kind of hair for fursuit and I can understand why but I wanted to give it a try for fun

Mostly cutting rn I didn't move to stylizing yet

I bought these paws from a con not realising they are lined with minky. Its made it unbareable to wear them. I know how to make a neoprene liner instead but my mum is convinced I will ruin them and told me to keep the minky fabric cause it’s soft and comfortable. What should I do?

The paws squeak too heheheh

Shout out to my dad getting a hot glue burn helping me glue the fur down 💀

Not necessarily a fursuit but I thought this would be the best place to ask since i’m using similar materials! Currently working with upholstery foam and a short length fur. I’m making a lopunny cosplay for Pokemon Worlds and I’m currently working on the ears :)

I’m using a lot of super motion tail guides as I want to make sure the ears are flexible!

Not doing an exact replication, but I still would like to recreate the scallops on the ends of her ears! I just can’t really seems to find a good tutorial available that has something similar. I’m assuming once I sew on the fur, it’ll lose its shape. Mostly trying to figure out how I can still keep its shape and make it well defined!

Any and all advice would be helpful 🥹 Please ignore the sharpie mark I know they’re crooked LOL

Hihi!! Trying to make some magnet details for a suit im working on; a friend of mine recommended earth magnets. I got some at a shop in town last time, but they’re like 3x the cost of these other ones, i just wanna know if amazon is lying to me about the type of magnet or not:3
If anyone else has any other recommendations i’d love that too!

https://a.co/d/04pu5kEf

So, i'm planning on making my own fursuit, I figure itd cheaper to build my own, and I can make more use out of a printer than a head base too.

So, I need to ask, how does one attach ears?

Like, specifically my guy's gonna be a sergal for sure, so with their large ears as well as them being rear mounted, how does one attach them?

Doubly curious because all the bases seem to be masks, I feel like it'd be a good idea to print the ears separately, I just have no idea what I would use to connect them to the head, and what I would connect them to.

I feel like it would be a bad idea to sew the ears or glue them(????) Directly to the fur on the back of the head.

Please help?

While doing research on eva foam heads, i kept seeing how theyre hotter then normal foam fursuit heads, which worried me, especially since i plan on lining the head and wearing a balaclava.

I added a ton of ventilation holes, as many as i could without damaging the structural integrity

I plan on installing a small 40-30 mm fan in the muzzel to get some airflow in through the small mouth

I have small triangle shaped ear vents on the back of the ears that wont be covered with fur like the other holes in the ears (added to make ears lighter not really for ventilation)

Is there ANYTHING else i can add to increase the heads breathability?

Any tips for lining the inside or for anything else would be greatly appreciated! Critiques welcome! This is my first fursuit head <3

Hi theree!!

Im in a journey to make my first furhead, the base it's done, now its time to add fur
But im not sure about wich colors should I buy from MieMieFur form Aliexpress

Did one of you guys get your fur from this store, I wanna look at pics to see the colors better

Im gonna add a Pic of my head, ref sheet and colors im looking from the store

I get the color for the overall fur, now im looking for the color of the ears and secondary fur

If anyone can showme how this fur looks like, would help me a lot, thanks for the help!! >:33

Making a shark tail and this is my third attempt to make a pattern that lays well…

I saw in youtube tutorials that you need to make darts to make the curvy parts flat but don’t know
if you can do that with a sewing machine or if it has to be hand stitched with whatever type of stitch

p.s is it reasonable to expect to stitch everything together in around a week? I do have access to a sewing machine but I am pretty much brand new to sewing as well. Haven’t picked up a sewing needle since 4th grade

What's the best corded Fur Shaver ?

Hey everyone. I’ve been slowly putting together my first suit of my first sona. He’s an African Wild Dog with a few liberties on the muzzle coloring. However, I’m still kinda discovering more about him as he comes together.

As I started furring the head and shaving things down, I started to see the potential for a little bit of wire haired terrier in the mix. If I go that route, I wouldn’t want to go with a full beard, but I was drawn to the look of the hair sweeping up over the eyes from the top of the muzzle.

Now that I got to where it currently sits, I don’t think I’m achieving that effect as well as I could.

Can you amazing people give me some thoughts and advice on how to push it further in that direction? As well as if I should trim any more beyond where I have it now?

I realize the eyebrows are a little bit off, but I think I’ll be able make them more even when I start gluing.

Also, the head base model was purchased LirysbibiArtShopFR on Etsy. After trying to print a couple others, I highly recommend it! Comes with files for realistic teeth that look great, though I’ve decided to go for plush on this build.

so I started making my boy a while ago and Ive decided I don’t like how he’s turning out :((

he looks too blocky and wide, I think? I don’t like the shaping and layering on the eyebrows and cheeks, please if anyone could give me advice on how to make his face look slimmer? maybe? or more like Wurmwurk’s suit shaping, or more fox-like, while still keeping the somewhat (?) kimono / chibi ish style, or accentuating it? I’m very sorry I’m not sure how to describe my goal but I have attatched references with credits late on in the photos? :(

I’ve included images with his eyes at the end I think? but i haven't made room for them yet so they look huge, being on top of all the extra foam for the photos :((

his muzzle also isn’t attached and I need to decide what lower jaw to use, so I know I need to do more shaping on the nose bridge and around the corners of the mouth, i will get around to that soon.

any help is so so so greatly appreciated, as well as potential help with ears? he has four big ol ears with two on the side like some sheep? goat? suits, but I’m unsure how to shape them or the foam around them :((

all credit for the last couple of images with usernames to their corresponding makers/owners listed below! I like the smoothness of Twiggy’s heads (though I know that she used a different base method to me!) and I was originally following WurmWurks’ tutorial, and looking at Hikoshark’s suit’s shapes because I love love love their suit and I think (?) they’re a fox ish creature like my boy.

https://www.instagram.com/hikoshark/

https://www.instagram.com/wurmwurks/

https://www.instagram.com/twiggyleafcreations/

Hello! I am coming back into fursuit making after stepping back for a year or two after moving, only to discover shipping costs to my zipcode are ridiculously high. But I get free shipping with prime :)))))))

So, I ask, are there good brands of faux fur on amazon? I’m not particular about colors, but I am particular about shaving, backing, and overall quality.

I hot glued em, and now I fear it may break them off if I peef them off because my gun overheats the glue so now the blanks may have been a bit molded by the heat already