My Return To Dreamland Comic I Did For My First Illustration Class In College Is Back Up! Stills Looks

Hello! Welcome to my blog :3

I'm Dumi the Dumbo Rat! You may call me Dumi, or Cali! I'm slowly working on improving my rusty drawing/felting skills whilst also coping with the lack of rats in my life. My blog reflects that a lot haha (keep an eye out for the "rat a day" tag in here, I reblog a lot of funny rodents).

I like doing art trades, too! I'm not quite confident enough in my skills to start doing commissions just yet, but I won't object to trading artwork! I will also accept drawing prompts in my ask box for now, I need the practice.

🐀 She/him.

🐀 Adult (18+).

🐀 Biromantic.

🐀 Psychology major, with a specific passion for phobias, disorders, and sleep/dreams.

🐀 Lover of 2000-2010s pop, old rock, electric swing, and indie music.

🐀 Fandom-obsessed geek (I alternate hyperfixations a lot).

🐀 Mythical creature enthusiast.

🐀 Chicken and demon chihuahua owner.

Rules:

🐁 No NSFW asks!

🐁 No rodent haters, I've set up mean person traps in every nook and cranny. But seriously... I love the lil guys, and I don't have the energy to fight you about it. You'll be ignored.

🐁 Please keep religious talk to a minimum. I don't know exactly where I stand on it, so the topic makes me uncomfortable to engage in :P

🐁 Absolutely no homophobia/transphobia will be tolerated. This is a safe space for anyone regardless of their sexuality or gender identity, as long as they are respectful and nice.

My (very outdated) Art Fight!

nooooo i got my least favorite breed- like the one modern dragon i don't have in my lair lol

colors i got are ultramarine for primary, cyan for secondary, and crimson for tertiary. Okay, I accept the challenge >:3

bandwagon time. oops, you're a fr dragon now!

spin this wheel for your breed

spin this wheel 3 times for your colors (if you land on the space that says you're a double after already spinning once or twice for your colors, use the colors you already have as your x and y)

Bonus, try to scry your combo.

(I made a forum game of this post, if you want to play along there)

Here's what I got: pearlcatcher, brown/stonewash/tarnish

some of you could learn a thing or two from the giant rat that makes all of da rules

release me you bastard i am not a yummy gyoza dumpling

how it feels driving manual for some reason

Reblog for a miracle to happen tonight

I wanted to test out a couple things in tvpaint, so Tuna was my guinea pig :3

On my transformers obsession ark

*tosses gay besties at you*

Quickshift is based off of my irl subaru outback, and California is partly a self insert :33

Hello!!!!

The wool Gary + Rookie are really cute! How did you make them? I.e – Were patterns used? Was it very difficult?

^ Words by a fool who craves to make a wool Cadence but knows nothing

Thank you!

Hi!! Tysm for the ask, I wasn’t expecting this lol (a lot of writing, brace yourself)

To answer your questions— nope, it wasn’t very difficult (cp designs have a lot of basic/easy shapes)! Both of them only took around 5-6 hours to complete. Though needle felting is a passion of mine, so I didn’t feel the need to take a break.

As for patterns, I only really used one to get the flat shape that I got for Gary’s flippers (any triangle cut-out will do really for a mold, if you want to do that as opposed to Rookie’s flippers which were just done with some added felt)

If you want, I can post a step-by-step of another penguin to show you the process, since explaining it would probably be a lot harder than physically showing it. I’ve been experimenting with other designs as well, though I cannot tell which I like more. Here’s an example of a felt I did of a friend’s OC, and I’d be happy to show how I did this too

Really, the biggest things I would suggest are to plan ahead, be patient, and focus on layering so clothing doesn’t look awkward (for example, for Gary’s lab coat I made sure to add on his flippers first so the sleeves could wrap around them, then I made the undershirt, then the tie atop of that, and finally added the white felt on top of everything).

Either way though, I wish you luck on your DJ K-Dance! And ty again for the ask :3

Part 4, and last part of the felted penguin tutorial!

Now that you have your beak, it’s time for the feet. From all the other penguins I’ve felted, I was running out of orange felt— you can use more than in the picture if you’d like to! Just make sure to cut/tear them as even as you can.

Again, for the feet I usually just place the felt on and go from there, but you can always make the shape beforehand.

Face the feet at an angle under the penguin, more towards the front than the back. Also try to get them as flat as you can, these will be the only thing holding your penguin up! Please do not give your penguin a concussion by dooming it to fall over and over again, the poor little guys.

Next up we’re working on the eyes. If your penguin has a mask, sunglasses, etc, this step is completely optional. Here I could have switched to my smaller needle, but I stuck with medium.

You can shape the penguin’s expression a bit more here with how you shape the eyes— for example, since AA is more attentive, I gave her wider, slightly sloped eyes.

Applying them is about the same as applying the white felt on the belly. Place a small amount of white felt above one side of the beak, shape it as you tighten it, and do the same for the other side. Make sure not to leave any space between the white of the eyes and the beak, and of course, get it as flat as you can.

Lastly, add the black part of the eyes! Use a VERY small amount of black felt, as it pops out a lot.

If you have felting scissors, you can also snip away extra bits of felt around the sides to make it look cleaner. AA definitely needs a bit more of a trim XD

I’ll get to her clothes sometime, but for now, here’s your penguin tutorial!