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tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge [COMPLETED]
« on: Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:34:45 »
30 Key Challenge:

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Meet Mr. Raffy!




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Inspired by mobbo posting this video...
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~Baby monkey, baby monkey, riding on a pig, baby monkey~




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I'll admit this chinchilla looks more like a rat than it does a chinchilla... Something about the head/nose shape wasn't quite there... But didn't want to spend too much time (this was already split into 2 days) as I'm trying to move fast and iterate! With that being said, meet Killa the Chinchilla (idk, was the first name that popped in my head)!



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Gunter's eyes are a little derpy..




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Lol so I tried to make Pascal from Tangled:


but I didn't try making the color accurate and the detail of his face were hard to implement...
The result is that he kinda looks like an angry .. turtle or something instead :P


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Getting the AT gang together:

And bonus pic of the AT crew together:


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Jake has a lot more detail/depth:




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Eager Beaver with some 'how you doing' eyebrows:



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Really fast (thus, messy) panda, may return to do a cleaner/fixed version:


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Home is where the heart is <3

He's a little bit chubbs, might have to remake a skinnier version so he doesn't bump elbows with his neighbors.

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I branched out a bit to make something a bit less cute.
Inspired by/made after the creature from the popular children's book (and now movie?) Where the Wild Things are



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Most people make faces (understandably so), but where's the love for butts??


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Porkeypine! :3


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Spam musubkey (based off this cute pic)



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Hamburger key!



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It's kinda hard to keep the dust out of the light clay so.. kinda looks like he's got some pubes between his eyes  :eek:

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Tree Trunks


Lookit that widdle bow tie on her tail OuO


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Lumpy Space Princess

Oh my glob. What the stuff are you doing?

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Monkey eating popcorn while watching a 3D movie (Idk, it was a request lol!)

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Hello!

I've been meaning to get around to posting for awhile now and never found the courage to do so. But I figured if I never posted them, I would never get feedback/advice on how to improve.

I really like the concept of creating your own designs for keycaps and am inspired by all the artisan keycap makers around here! I still have a lot to do, but I think it will do me (and perhaps others) good to start keeping a log of what I've done.

As a disclaimer, I have no artistic ability (at least not naturally) so my designs are definitely sub par.  I don't draw, paint, or anything like that. I'm wondering what I can do to improve sculpting capabilities but maybe just practice would be good to begin with!

I haven't had the time or resources to try resin casting (I have a lot to read up on for that to happen), but I have make a few prototypes of keycaps. I used Sculpey polymer clay on top of some lightly dyed PBT keycaps (light blue) that I bought secondhand from someone. They had to be PBT because I baked the caps in the oven and I think ABS might have melted.

So I know that there's like a whole category of polymer clay jewelry/keychains/etc. that people make really cute stuff for (you can search it on Etsy), but I was actually wondering how come no one does that for keycaps? I'd imagine the time might take a bit longer than using moulds but you can achieve some pretty nice details, and a lot more colors? Maybe someone experienced in this would know the answer. I think maybe if casting doesn't work out for me, maybe I'd just make personalized clay keycaps instead...

TL;DR - I'm a noob and here are some keycaps made with bake-able polymer clay.

With all that said, here are 3 of my "designs" so far (picture quality is using my phone, sorry):

Snowcap
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I actually feel like I could make these by hand probably better than casting? The snow cap effect is easily done with the clay and I'm not sure it's even clearly defined enough to make a mold. However, that means the height of it is probably is not as accurate if done by hand every time. Also, since it's white clay, it catches dust and other particles really easily. I was going to try and sand off a thin layer to see if that would make it better.

Keyster Island Cap
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The name is still.. pending lol. I know I don't have to make a pun in every name, but it's fun! We'll see if I keep this name. As you can see, I tried to do an Easter Island Maoi cap but it didn't turn out.. as good as I wanted it to? The statues have a much longer face length so I think squashing it into a square size sort of makes it not so great. I also had a lot of trouble with his lips.

Tikey
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Yeah, yeah, I know. There's a lot of something-key's (snackeys, cherokeys, chickeys?) around but I honestly thought of this on my own! I had made this cap for a few months, but never got around to posting it. I'm actually super proud of this one, as it came out to be pretty nice! I don't know if I can make this into a mold or not. And even so, the colors will be limited with casting I think.

Okay, that's it for now! Love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, critiques, anything!

P.S. I don't know if it's needed, but I'm going to reserve a few posts so I can try and keep this log updated at least on the first page so people don't have to go all the way through if they don't want to.
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log
« Reply #1 on: Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:35:06 »
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« Reply #2 on: Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:35:31 »
Reserved. Perhaps 2 is enough.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log
« Reply #3 on: Tue, 03 November 2015, 11:51:44 »
Hello!

I've been meaning to get around to posting for awhile now and never found the courage to do so. But I figured if I never posted them, I would never get feedback/advice on how to improve.

I really like the concept of creating your own designs for keycaps and am inspired by all the artisan keycap makers around here! I still have a lot to do, but I think it will do me (and perhaps others) good to start keeping a log of what I've done.

As a disclaimer, I have no artistic ability (at least not naturally) so my designs are definitely sub par.  I don't draw, paint, or anything like that. I'm wondering what I can do to improve sculpting capabilities but maybe just practice would be good to begin with!

I haven't had the time or resources to try resin casting (I have a lot to read up on for that to happen), but I have make a few prototypes of keycaps. I used Sculpey polymer clay on top of some lightly dyed PBT keycaps (light blue) that I bought secondhand from someone. They had to be PBT because I baked the caps in the oven and I think ABS might have melted.

So I know that there's like a whole category of polymer clay jewelry/keychains/etc. that people make really cute stuff for (you can search it on Etsy), but I was actually wondering how come no one does that for keycaps? I'd imagine the time might take a bit longer than using moulds but you can achieve some pretty nice details, and a lot more colors? Maybe someone experienced in this would know the answer. I think maybe if casting doesn't work out for me, maybe I'd just make personalized clay keycaps instead...

TL;DR - I'm a noob and here are some keycaps made with bake-able polymer clay.

With all that said, here are 3 of my "designs" so far (picture quality is using my phone, sorry):

Snowcap
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I actually feel like I could make these by hand probably better than casting? The snow cap effect is easily done with the clay and I'm not sure it's even clearly defined enough to make a mold. However, that means the height of it is probably is not as accurate if done by hand every time. Also, since it's white clay, it catches dust and other particles really easily. I was going to try and sand off a thin layer to see if that would make it better.

Keyster Island Cap
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The name is still.. pending lol. I know I don't have to make a pun in every name, but it's fun! We'll see if I keep this name. As you can see, I tried to do an Easter Island Maoi cap but it didn't turn out.. as good as I wanted it to? The statues have a much longer face length so I think squashing it into a square size sort of makes it not so great. I also had a lot of trouble with his lips.

Tikey
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Yeah, yeah, I know. There's a lot of something-key's (snackeys, cherokeys, chickeys?) around but I honestly thought of this on my own! I had made this cap for a few months, but never got around to posting it. I'm actually super proud of this one, as it came out to be pretty nice! I don't know if I can make this into a mold or not. And even so, the colors will be limited with casting I think.

Okay, that's it for now! Love to hear your thoughts, suggestions, critiques, anything!

P.S. I don't know if it's needed, but I'm going to reserve a few posts so I can try and keep this log updated at least on the first page so people don't have to go all the way through if they don't want to.

Your sculpting ability is good. But when you start casting you may want to start w/ blanks because there's a lot to learn when you start casting and flat surfaces are easier to deal with.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log
« Reply #4 on: Sun, 08 November 2015, 07:15:34 »
Not sure on the Keyster Island as, like you said, the cap is too square.

The Tikey looks really colourful but you're not going to be casting that many colours anytime soon, and with the headdress sticking out that much I'm not sure how you'd get the cap out of the mold without breaking something.  Perhaps a 3 part with the top as one, another for the sides and a third for the stem?  You'd get a mold line at the join then though...

For now I'd focus on the snowcap.  I like the idea of sculpting each one as they'd all be unique and there's no need for them to be exactly the same height - perfection isn't always a good thing in art (imagine a forest scene with one tree repeated 500 times...)  If the sanding doesn't work out maybe there's something you can coat it with to keep the dirt off?  No-one likes dirty snow :))

Also I think it would look even better on a grey cap as you'd have more contrast, and maybe SA so you have more height?

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« Reply #5 on: Thu, 12 November 2015, 12:04:05 »
I actually really like the the Keyster Island cap!  I also feel that the tikey has a lot of potential.  This is just my opinion but maybe if you sculpted the features to look less round and gave the brown a woody texture it would look really good!  Sidenote:  has anybody made clay tops for keycaps like these, baked them separately from the keycap, then glued them on? I wonder how that would work...
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log
« Reply #6 on: Wed, 09 December 2015, 04:58:54 »
That Snowcap is absolutely beautiful. I would love to see how it looks as a cap. Do you think you could recreate the famous Hokusai woodblock print Red Fuji? I'm sure that would look amazing.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log
« Reply #7 on: Wed, 09 December 2015, 05:08:22 »
I really like this idea and as mentioned previously, doing all of them by hand will give them a unique look and feel. will be watching to see more progress. also I would want a snowcap :3
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« Reply #8 on: Fri, 08 April 2016, 16:53:00 »
Apologies for bumping an old thread, but there's been progress (slow... but still there!).

For those that have sort of followed along, I followed up with a snowcap sale back in January-ish. But the snowcap itself was just the start and not the end product. It wasn't up to the standard that I think most people want for a keycap (got some criticism for literally baking clay on a cap to sell, and I totes understand that).

In the meantime, I've played around with some ideas and also have dabbled in a bit of resin casting (I'm so noob that it's not even worthy to post pics of my failure yet). I know I have a long way to go before reaching the likes of the OG artisans around here (and the new ones that have been doing superb jobs).

I know that sculpting is a really important part of the process and as someone who has no artistic background, I feel like the best way to improve is to keep practicing and do lots of it. This is why I'm here today with a new project, the 30 key challenge. Not sure if y'all have seen people doing a 30-day challenge, but it's very similar to that, except I changed it to 30 keys because I didn't want to be caught up in the time constraint in case anything happened (work, personal life, etc). However, I'm going to try and do these as fast as I can, so it might be close to 1-2 days per cap. Or more if I get tired.. I don't know :<

I have a set of white PBT caps that I'm just going to use the polymer clay (I have a sample of the colorful ones) to use on top. This isn't exactly sculpting since usually I'm just like putting pieces of clay to construct a bigger image (instead of carving into the clay) but I'll try sculpting with super sculpey as well as using the polymer clay.

And here's where you guys come in. I need ideas... and lots of them! Can be anything simple like a character from a show or anything crazy like ... a bird sitting on a dragon's back or something. If I like your idea and use it on a cap, I'll give you the opportunity to get the keycap (given that you actually like the end result). Because I'm still experimenting/learning, the quality of these keycaps are probably not the best, and as such, I wouldn't want to charge for them. Sooo as long as you are willing to pay the shipping (~$3 for first class and more if you want priority), I would be willing to send the cap to you :)

I have a couple of ideas in place, and I will try and post pictures when I have finished each cap (so there should be a total of 30 pics by the end of this).

TL;DR - Trying out a 30 key challenge to increase skills in working with clay. Any/all ideas for what to put on a keycap is welcome. If I use your idea and you'd like the end result, I will send it to you if you pay shipping!

I'll start off with what I made for Key #1:

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #9 on: Fri, 08 April 2016, 20:12:48 »
Reverse Key; it's like a fingertip poking out of the top of the keycap. Are you touching the key, or is it touching you?  :eek: It would essentially look like you're touching a mirror when you press it.

Black Widow Keycap: Iconic hourglass design perched on top, with the legs hanging down the sides of the key, pincers sticking out.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #10 on: Sat, 09 April 2016, 18:09:31 »
Reverse Key; it's like a fingertip poking out of the top of the keycap. Are you touching the key, or is it touching you?  :eek: It would essentially look like you're touching a mirror when you press it.

Black Widow Keycap: Iconic hourglass design perched on top, with the legs hanging down the sides of the key, pincers sticking out.

Thanks for your suggestions! Coincidentally, there was actually a black widow in my room this morning and I killed it. I took it as a sign.

In remembrance of her, RIP.

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Not sure how the legs will turn out after baking (I hope they don't break off). Certainly this is not really a functional key since you might break off the legs if you push the key o.o
@DvorakDachshund if you're interested in getting it, PM me and we can arrange that! I'm not quite sure if she'll make it through shipping though :/
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #11 on: Mon, 11 April 2016, 03:59:03 »
That spider keycap looks really good! And scary (I don't like spiders lol)
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #12 on: Mon, 11 April 2016, 11:20:53 »
Key #3

Meet Mr. Raffy!




Yes, I know that this keycap is not very functional and also fragile. It was an idea someone tossed out on a random reddit thread but I just thought it'd be fun to do! I have a feeling a lot of caps I'll make will not be functional but it's all for practice and I'm not planning on selling them as such.

I realize this might be spammy... so maybe I'll just post once every couple of caps but update my OP regularly :P

That spider keycap looks really good! And scary (I don't like spiders lol)
Yeah I myself was pretty disgusted and creeped out as I was making it hah.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #13 on: Mon, 11 April 2016, 16:13:00 »
I don't mind the daily posts. I think you should post them as you finish them as I think people will enjoy seeing them. Anyways keep up the good work  :thumb:
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #14 on: Wed, 13 April 2016, 01:53:37 »
Key #4
Inspired by mobbo posting this video...

~Baby monkey, baby monkey, riding on a pig, baby monkey~


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« Reply #15 on: Wed, 13 April 2016, 02:03:00 »
That's awesome! and adorable  :D
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #16 on: Wed, 13 April 2016, 12:49:17 »
Mmm can we get a chinchilla :D?


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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #17 on: Wed, 13 April 2016, 16:44:53 »
Really nice attempts! What plastic are those? Fingers crossed it is PBT..
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #18 on: Wed, 13 April 2016, 17:10:58 »
Key #4
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #19 on: Thu, 14 April 2016, 13:50:01 »
That monkey cap is awesome

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #20 on: Thu, 14 April 2016, 13:56:51 »
Looking great! I tried my hand at sculpting some stuff for fun but it turned out to be a disaster. Keep it up.

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« Reply #21 on: Fri, 15 April 2016, 11:25:46 »
Really nice attempts! What plastic are those? Fingers crossed it is PBT..
Yup! They're PBT. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to bake the result which would be raw/moldable clay on a keycap = no bueno.

Looking great! I tried my hand at sculpting some stuff for fun but it turned out to be a disaster. Keep it up.
Thanks! :) The stuff you see here is probably some of my better stuff. There are definitely disasters I'm not showing haha... I've only had a little bit of experience so far, but you should keep trying! Practice really does make perfect, and I'm learning that I'm going to have a lot of failures and duds and mess ups before I make decent stuff.

Mmm can we get a chinchilla :D?

Key #5
I'll admit this chinchilla looks more like a rat than it does a chinchilla... Something about the head/nose shape wasn't quite there... But didn't want to spend too much time (this was already split into 2 days) as I'm trying to move fast and iterate! With that being said, meet Killa the Chinchilla (idk, was the first name that popped in my head)!


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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #22 on: Fri, 15 April 2016, 11:29:43 »
Really nice attempts! What plastic are those? Fingers crossed it is PBT..
Yup! They're PBT. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to bake the result which would be raw/moldable clay on a keycap = no bueno.

Looking great! I tried my hand at sculpting some stuff for fun but it turned out to be a disaster. Keep it up.
Thanks! :) The stuff you see here is probably some of my better stuff. There are definitely disasters I'm not showing haha... I've only had a little bit of experience so far, but you should keep trying! Practice really does make perfect, and I'm learning that I'm going to have a lot of failures and duds and mess ups before I make decent stuff.

Mmm can we get a chinchilla :D?

Key #5
I'll admit this chinchilla looks more like a rat than it does a chinchilla... Something about the head/nose shape wasn't quite there... But didn't want to spend too much time (this was already split into 2 days) as I'm trying to move fast and iterate! With that being said, meet Killa the Chinchilla (idk, was the first name that popped in my head)!
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It's an adorable rodent, that's what it is.  :thumb:

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #23 on: Fri, 15 April 2016, 11:31:54 »
Really nice attempts! What plastic are those? Fingers crossed it is PBT..
Yup! They're PBT. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to bake the result which would be raw/moldable clay on a keycap = no bueno.

Looking great! I tried my hand at sculpting some stuff for fun but it turned out to be a disaster. Keep it up.
Thanks! :) The stuff you see here is probably some of my better stuff. There are definitely disasters I'm not showing haha... I've only had a little bit of experience so far, but you should keep trying! Practice really does make perfect, and I'm learning that I'm going to have a lot of failures and duds and mess ups before I make decent stuff.

Mmm can we get a chinchilla :D?

Key #5
I'll admit this chinchilla looks more like a rat than it does a chinchilla... Something about the head/nose shape wasn't quite there... But didn't want to spend too much time (this was already split into 2 days) as I'm trying to move fast and iterate! With that being said, meet Killa the Chinchilla (idk, was the first name that popped in my head)!
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Let's see a white fox next!  I've considered making one myself but I'm thinking yours would be way more adorable.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #24 on: Mon, 18 April 2016, 17:37:42 »
Not sure if the idea is novel or not, but I was thinking about the different sports balls and how they would be a much more widely appealing type of cap. So make the cap look like a soccer ball, volleyball, football, rugby ball, 8-Ball (from pool), etc. I'm not sure how round you could get things and still have the cap be functional, might have to file down the corners or something.

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« Reply #25 on: Tue, 19 April 2016, 12:05:54 »
Catching up on some keys:

Key #6




Key #7
Gunter's eyes are a little derpy..




Key #8



Let's see a white fox next!  I've considered making one myself but I'm thinking yours would be way more adorable.
Noted!

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« Reply #26 on: Tue, 19 April 2016, 14:14:21 »
Catching up on some keys:

Key #6
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Key #7
Gunter's eyes are a little derpy..
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Key #8
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Let's see a white fox next!  I've considered making one myself but I'm thinking yours would be way more adorable.
Noted!

Second penguin is nice!
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #27 on: Tue, 19 April 2016, 15:43:10 »
Catching up on some keys:

Key #6
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Key #7
Gunter's eyes are a little derpy..
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Key #8
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Let's see a white fox next!  I've considered making one myself but I'm thinking yours would be way more adorable.
Noted!

I need the #8 in my life. Looking good!

How about Lady Rainicorn from Adventure Time for your next piece?
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« Reply #28 on: Tue, 19 April 2016, 16:59:51 »
How about Lady Rainicorn from Adventure Time for your next piece?
Haha, it's on my list of AT characters to do already :)

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #29 on: Tue, 19 April 2016, 17:24:22 »
Not sure if the idea is novel or not, but I was thinking about the different sports balls and how they would be a much more widely appealing type of cap. So make the cap look like a soccer ball, volleyball, football, rugby ball, 8-Ball (from pool), etc. I'm not sure how round you could get things and still have the cap be functional, might have to file down the corners or something.
Balls are hard...

.. To create I mean! Because of the easily smushable nature of the clay I'm using. I think it also might create a clearance issue with the neighboring cap? I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion!

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #30 on: Tue, 19 April 2016, 17:26:40 »
Not sure if the idea is novel or not, but I was thinking about the different sports balls and how they would be a much more widely appealing type of cap. So make the cap look like a soccer ball, volleyball, football, rugby ball, 8-Ball (from pool), etc. I'm not sure how round you could get things and still have the cap be functional, might have to file down the corners or something.
Balls are hard...

.. To create I mean! Because of the easily smushable nature of the clay I'm using. I think it also might create a clearance issue with the neighboring cap? I'll look into it, thanks for the suggestion!

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #31 on: Wed, 20 April 2016, 07:56:16 »
Love the beemo key! Keep up the good work.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #32 on: Fri, 22 April 2016, 12:50:55 »
Key #9
Lol so I tried to make Pascal from Tangled:


but I didn't try making the color accurate and the detail of his face were hard to implement...
The result is that he kinda looks like an angry .. turtle or something instead :P



Practice makes perfect I suppose!

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #33 on: Fri, 22 April 2016, 18:39:58 »
The right eyeball and the surrounding socket look great!

How about some of the characters from Zootopia? The other half would love to see a Judy Hopps.


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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #34 on: Thu, 28 April 2016, 12:12:24 »
Playing catchup:


Key #10
Getting the AT gang together:


Jake has a lot more detail/depth:
Key #11




Key #12
Eager Beaver with some 'how you doing' eyebrows:



Key #13
Really fast (thus, messy) panda, may return to do a cleaner/fixed version:


And bonus pic of the AT crew together:

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #35 on: Tue, 03 May 2016, 23:00:16 »
The adventure time ones are so adorable, please cast these :D
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #36 on: Wed, 04 May 2016, 20:57:32 »
That spider keycap is awesome bro


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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #37 on: Mon, 09 May 2016, 13:42:59 »
Updates!
Apologies to the 2 people that are actually following my progress because I haven't updated in a while. I've still been working on things! Just slowly. Life's been a little hectic but I find this artistic endeavor to be a nice break.

With that said, here's something I've been working on:

Sushkeys!!
(I know these can be more specific as sashimkeys aka sashimkeys but that didn't sound as nice as sushkeys)


^I think these are pre-baked


^Baked and glazed (it made it darker so I might have to remedy that by making it lighter before baking)


On a keyboard!

I may have a small sale if people are interested in buying some sushkeys towards the end of my challenge ^_^ I know they're not like.. resin casted but they'll be cheap because it's clay! Not sure if this counts as key #14 or #14-#18 though...

Also, in other related news, I have been kinda working on a resin casted version of a previous baked keycap. Here's a (blurry) sneak preview:


I have a couple of tweaks and adjustments that need to be made so it won't be at the level of quality I want it to be at for awhile. Need to get some proper equipment too :P

Again, thanks for those that have followed along, I have ways to go to hone my skills but hopefully making some progress :)

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #38 on: Mon, 09 May 2016, 13:50:03 »
Updates!
Apologies to the 2 people that are actually following my progress because I haven't updated in a while. I've still been working on things! Just slowly. Life's been a little hectic but I find this artistic endeavor to be a nice break.

With that said, here's something I've been working on:

Sushkeys!!
(I know these can be more specific as sashimkeys aka sashimkeys but that didn't sound as nice as sushkeys)

Show Image

^I think these are pre-baked

Show Image

^Baked and glazed (it made it darker so I might have to remedy that by making it lighter before baking)

Show Image

On a keyboard!

I may have a small sale if people are interested in buying some sushkeys towards the end of my challenge ^_^ I know they're not like.. resin casted but they'll be cheap because it's clay! Not sure if this counts as key #14 or #14-#18 though...

Also, in other related news, I have been kinda working on a resin casted version of a previous baked keycap. Here's a (blurry) sneak preview:
Show Image


I have a couple of tweaks and adjustments that need to be made so it won't be at the level of quality I want it to be at for awhile. Need to get some proper equipment too :p

Again, thanks for those that have followed along, I have ways to go to hone my skills but hopefully making some progress :)

Omgooosh these are my favorite of yours to date. These are wonderful. I'd love to see a full series with more options :D

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #39 on: Mon, 09 May 2016, 13:59:29 »
Updates!
Apologies to the 2 people that are actually following my progress because I haven't updated in a while. I've still been working on things! Just slowly. Life's been a little hectic but I find this artistic endeavor to be a nice break.

With that said, here's something I've been working on:

Sushkeys!!
(I know these can be more specific as sashimkeys aka sashimkeys but that didn't sound as nice as sushkeys)

Show Image

^I think these are pre-baked

Show Image

^Baked and glazed (it made it darker so I might have to remedy that by making it lighter before baking)

Show Image

On a keyboard!

I may have a small sale if people are interested in buying some sushkeys towards the end of my challenge ^_^ I know they're not like.. resin casted but they'll be cheap because it's clay! Not sure if this counts as key #14 or #14-#18 though...

Also, in other related news, I have been kinda working on a resin casted version of a previous baked keycap. Here's a (blurry) sneak preview:
Show Image


I have a couple of tweaks and adjustments that need to be made so it won't be at the level of quality I want it to be at for awhile. Need to get some proper equipment too :P

Again, thanks for those that have followed along, I have ways to go to hone my skills but hopefully making some progress :)

These are adorable. I was actually practicing making sushi with super sculpey firm myself at home but yours looks way cuter!

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #40 on: Mon, 09 May 2016, 14:10:58 »
Ooooooh girl u killin it

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #41 on: Mon, 09 May 2016, 14:15:35 »
I may have a small sale if people are interested in buying some sushkeys...

I may have a small sale if people are interested in buying some sushkeys...

I may have a small sale if people are interested in buying some sushkeys...


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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #42 on: Mon, 09 May 2016, 14:53:19 »
These are really creative, especially the sushkeys. That eager beaver is definitely looking for a good time. Can't wait to see additional progress!

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #43 on: Thu, 12 May 2016, 14:27:16 »
Damn boo.
Ill be really impressed if you can cast those sushkeys with the striping and err thang. those would sell like hot cakes.

limited batches.
many varieties.
wait time.

just like real sushi.



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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #44 on: Fri, 13 May 2016, 12:12:32 »
Home is where the heart is <3
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He's a little bit chubbs, might have to remake a skinnier version so he doesn't bump elbows with his neighbors.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #45 on: Fri, 13 May 2016, 12:55:43 »
Still your tongue and grasp my funds.

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #46 on: Tue, 17 May 2016, 21:23:37 »
Maybe a starship cap!

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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #47 on: Tue, 17 May 2016, 21:37:19 »
That black widow keycap is too realistic for me :eek:
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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #48 on: Wed, 18 May 2016, 13:04:08 »
Maybe a starship cap!
lol.. oh you... You'll never let me forget I said that huh? Well, it's not a bad idea actually...

That black widow keycap is too realistic for me :eek:
Haha, it creeps me out too.

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I branched out a bit to make something a bit less cute. Thanks for the suggestion mobbo!
Inspired by/made after the creature from the popular children's book (and now movie?) Where the Wild Things are


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Re: tiny's keycap crafting log // 30 key challenge
« Reply #49 on: Wed, 18 May 2016, 14:41:54 »
I've been enjoying watching all these awesome caps come through, but this wild thing is my favorite so far.

Keep up the good work!