I've worked that past few years at a bookshop and when the Dragon Keeper movie came out I offered to make a window display and put far more work into it than was necessary. 

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Being on work budget, Danzi was made with as cheap a materials as possible. The bulk of his body was made from delivery boxes, the scales were painted craft paper, and his hair is made from teased and straightened wool. 

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I stuck together multiple cardboard boxes with packing tape, sketched out the design and cut him out with scissors as I didn't have a box cutter at the time and the budget didn't allow me to buy one. I painted his face and scales with acrylic paint (I matched the colour to his actual colour; in the poster behind him it's sunset). The scales were made in joined rows so they could be glued in strips rather than individually. 

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I decided to use wool for the hair instead of painting it because I wanted him to look fluffy and pattable. I teased, straightened, and brushed each tuft and glued them in place, and then carefully cut additional tufts from their knots and glued down small clusters of strands to make the hair line. 

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The head is the main piece of Danzi, but he came with three additional body pieces, so it looked like he stretched out across two windows. 

The first flower mobile like this I made was about 5ft. in diameter and was for a uni art project. It represented the Wheel of the Year, with each eighth having colours chosen to represent their respective holiday. 

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The one's shown here are derived from that, with less ribbons, extra flowers, and more unified colour schemes. 

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The base is typically made from embroidery hoops, with ribbons cut and glued in place. Then the flowers are placed individually and bound with paper ribbon tightly wound around the hoop. 

I found this lamp on the side of the road and wanted to try fixing it. I seperated the various pieces, cleaned them as best I could, then sanded down the remnants of varnish with a hand sander and my rotary tool, for the smaller areas. I varnished the wood three times and reassembled the lamp, having cleaned and polished the metal pieces. 

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I then also decided to teach myself how to rewire it, despite the advice of a local bunnings employ. I successfully did it and didn't electrocute myself. 

I wanted to learn to make one of these layered paper boxes and naturally picked something very difficult to start with. As almost none of the pieces actually touch the edge of the box, they're all meticulously mounted on wire. 

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I used a reference picture from Junji Ito's 'Uzumaki', redrew the portrait, and planned out the various layers. Each layer was drawn individually on a heavy card stock with fine markers of various thicknesses. The layers were cut out with a sharpened exacto knife and assembled with wire and tape, most of which was painted black to help it blend into the inside of the box. 

A series of puppets I've made over the years. The larger one with legs (CAL) is from the webcomic Homestuck and was sewn from scratch many years ago, from a pattern I found online. The other large puppet was made slightly more recently with a modified version of this design (- legs + tentacles). He has wire in the tentacles so they're posable. 

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The smaller ones are hand puppets with sewn bodies and styrofoam balls for heads. The vampire one is a replica of one made by Holly Conrad from her Actual Play of Curse of Strahd. I made this as a prop for when I cosplayed her character, Strix. I sewed and assembled the body and clothes from scratch. The other is a witch I made while demonstrating how to make these puppets for a children's art class I ran. 

 

They're a family :)