I spent most of February fretting that I hadn't been working on a project for February. Then there got to be like two days left in the month (and, being a leap year, one of them was essentially a bonus "extra" day that I had absolutely no business counting on being there) and I asked myself, what sort of project could I reasonably expect to finish, photograph, and upload in such a short space of time? Well, the answer is staring you in the face, and is thinking right now about casting a spell and turning you into a small frog. Yes, of course, it's the TinyToad, the ever-loyal, ever-leaping follower of the ToadLady. It also holds the distinction of being the very smallest Final Fantasy IV monster I've worked on—smaller, even, than the TinyMage! That's all for this month. Perhaps I will be more productive in March. It would be hard not to be, if we're being fair.
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For January I decided to tackle a project that's been bugging me for a while. I knew I wanted to use a specific action figure body, and attach a specific action figure head, but the logistics of how to accomplish it eluded me for a while. I pondered various solutions (cutting off faces, neck transplants, all sorts of grisly things) until the solution finally came to me. Anyway, I finished up the Medusa and Gorgon, two ladies with slithering reptillian tresses, who were shamelessly stolen from Greek mythology for their appearance in Final Fantasy IV. (As a point of interest, an early Medusa appears in a much lower pixel resolution in the primitive 8-bit Final Fantasy for NES as well.) I only have to do (counts on fingers) three more projects in 2024 to beat my productivity for 2023. That's kind of sad. But, there are also eleven months left in the year, so I'd say the odds of that happening are honestly pretty good! |
DAVID GRAHAM EDWARDS
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