Hello, my name is Faun. I might be ugly.

Death is a part of life. I didn't kill this animal. It was already dead when I bought it. Please no harsh comments. 
I am a nice person and accept other opinions. If you also do, but don't like fur, then please just don't look at this image and rather go looking at things you like. Thank you (:

Remember this pelt? Yeah, that's what I made out of it at the beginning of 2016. 

This is Faun. He is a sunbleached red fox/golden island fox mix. I used the pelt from an old stole and the head and feet were scraps. Faun's head form is made out of foam, which was a nice thought at the beginning but didn't work out quite well in the end because of the foam's squeeshyness. There is a wire armature inside his body which lets him stand on all 4 feet – he is a bit waggly then but he stands. 

The base wasn't easy to work with and I didn't have the right materials. Firstly, the pelt just ripped everywhere. The leather was so bad that I needed so glue fabric on the inside to make it hold. Well, this was part of the reason I took so long with the armature – the pelt was very heavy. His face also took several days and multiple overworks to finish. I am not 100% satisfied with him, but I couldn't do it any better without making the face rip more apart than it already did (there were loads of holes I had to sew). The only thing that wasn't a problem were the ears. It was really easy to split them and let them dry correctly on a wire form (I cut them off at that time and attached them later to make it less hard). Next, the mask I used had some bare spots. I was okay with that because I thought "maybe he just has some scratches in the face, I can do that" – Yeah, that's where his "wounds" come from. 

Making his armature was really tricky because of the heavy pelt and his size (I usually do armatures for small art dolls, not for lifesized beasts). It took several weeks for me to finally finish the armature and making standing possible for him. I didn't really work well on the feet though – there's clay visible on the underside. And then there was another problem with the feet: I only had 3 golden island fox paws left back then! I had to get another one – now I have one, but I'm not really eager to finish him. It's a kinda love-hate-relationship. He is ugly, I hate him. He is kinda cute, I love him. But he is a mess and I don't feel like finishing him. So, yeah, he basically has 4 paws now but only 3 of them are surrounded with fur (meant the fourth one is still only the armature). The leg is not visible on the photo, it's the front leg that is pushed to the side. His unfinished paw is also the reason why I never uploaded any photos of him. 

Name: Faun
Species: red fox / golden island fox mix
Type: mounted art doll
Origin: made myself

Status: maybe for sale or trade if there's true interest

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