theMerFanc
10-08-2015, 11:08 PM
hey all! I am brand new to mer-ing and tailmaking and anything of the sort but I really wanted to chronicle my journey from the beginning. While I hope to someday get a gorgeous silicone tail, I cannot afford it now and I want to make sure I like this whole adventure before dropping what would be money for a car on a tail. I also really want to incorporate some things into the tail that can't necessarily be done with silicone so I think a fabric one is a good start anyway.
Before I begin I want to tell you a bit about my dream and my vision. So if you don't know what a merFanc is, well that's ok because it doesn't exist. but the Afanc (or Adanc or Addac or any other number of odd translations) is a highly misunderstood Welsh mythological lake monster. The Afanc was just happily minding his own business one day - having fun, splashing in his lake, hanging with his fish buddies - when a few dwarfs came to his lake side. Confused and angry at the trespassing, the Afanc tried to go and politely ask them to leave. But instead, they freaking tased him (ok not really) then chained him up and dragged him behind an ox-drawn cart before dumping him in some random lake at the top of a lonely and sad mountain where he didn't get to have any fishy friends.
Ok so that might not be the whole truth. But it's my truth and thats what matters. Anywho, I discovered the Afanc around a year ago now and I just completely fell in love with absolutely everything about him and his story. Ever since, I have been using the Afanc as an alias all over the internet. It is my Cosplay handle, my Etsy shop name, my Lets Play/Youtube channel and my SCA Heraldry is even my own chimera version of the Afanc.
http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10/08/df96216cbfa4862603b30f7f2c9cd329.jpg
I am currently working on sketching up a design or two for my tail and while I really can't wait to get started, I am completely unemployed (unless y'all want to check out my Etsy at AfancsLake and buy some stuff to help me pay rent and make a tail!) so my tail is really just in the design and concept stage. But I wanted to start this tail early because it so unique and if I didn't make it internet real I probably wouldn't ever work on it XD so, I am hoping to work on this whole thing slowly put surly and got at it whenever I have the plans.
Here are some artist renderings and ideas of what the Afanc looks like:
http://sakitaro.deviantart.com/art/A...fanc-440764228 (http://sakitaro.deviantart.com/art/Alphabestiary-Afanc-440764228)
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20140722165419 (http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/itsmth/images/a/a5/Image643.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140722165419)
http://www.geoartcache.com/uploads/5...432928.jpg?205 (http://www.geoartcache.com/uploads/5/0/9/1/5091510/good-afanc_7432928.jpg?205)
http://k38.kn3.net/taringa/2/2/4/2/3...a/31C.jpg?1495 (http://k38.kn3.net/taringa/2/2/4/2/3/3/7/blackera/31C.jpg?1495)
http://orig07.deviantart.net/9e13/f/...oter__andy.png (http://orig07.deviantart.net/9e13/f/2010/211/4/7/avank_by_shooter__andy.png)
http://www.lindwurm.jp/eldersign/img2/144_afanc_0g1.jpg
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__...es/5/50/29.png (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130328221311/darksummoner/images/5/50/29.png)
I am hoping do something similar to the selkie tails around the group, using a flat monofin to create a fuzzy brown beaver tail and then continuing the tail up into a long-sleeved turtleneck unitard. The tail will also have green patches of scales and spikes like the sixth photo above. I want to make webbed gloves to be more realistic and to help with the swimming. While I would love to be a pro Mer, I don't live in the place for it and I really doubt I would be pretty enough to heir as a mermaid and I don't think anyone wants a lake monster at their parties. But should I ever feel like randomly dressing up, I would like to figure out how to have giant prosthetic beaver and saber teeth as well as ears and a snout.
I am also designing the mechanics needed for a sharktail and will chronicle all that in a different post. But now I will go draw some tail desings and upload them when I have decided they aren't terrible and need to be burned.
MerFanc out.
Before I begin I want to tell you a bit about my dream and my vision. So if you don't know what a merFanc is, well that's ok because it doesn't exist. but the Afanc (or Adanc or Addac or any other number of odd translations) is a highly misunderstood Welsh mythological lake monster. The Afanc was just happily minding his own business one day - having fun, splashing in his lake, hanging with his fish buddies - when a few dwarfs came to his lake side. Confused and angry at the trespassing, the Afanc tried to go and politely ask them to leave. But instead, they freaking tased him (ok not really) then chained him up and dragged him behind an ox-drawn cart before dumping him in some random lake at the top of a lonely and sad mountain where he didn't get to have any fishy friends.
Ok so that might not be the whole truth. But it's my truth and thats what matters. Anywho, I discovered the Afanc around a year ago now and I just completely fell in love with absolutely everything about him and his story. Ever since, I have been using the Afanc as an alias all over the internet. It is my Cosplay handle, my Etsy shop name, my Lets Play/Youtube channel and my SCA Heraldry is even my own chimera version of the Afanc.
http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/10/08/df96216cbfa4862603b30f7f2c9cd329.jpg
I am currently working on sketching up a design or two for my tail and while I really can't wait to get started, I am completely unemployed (unless y'all want to check out my Etsy at AfancsLake and buy some stuff to help me pay rent and make a tail!) so my tail is really just in the design and concept stage. But I wanted to start this tail early because it so unique and if I didn't make it internet real I probably wouldn't ever work on it XD so, I am hoping to work on this whole thing slowly put surly and got at it whenever I have the plans.
Here are some artist renderings and ideas of what the Afanc looks like:
http://sakitaro.deviantart.com/art/A...fanc-440764228 (http://sakitaro.deviantart.com/art/Alphabestiary-Afanc-440764228)
http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20140722165419 (http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/itsmth/images/a/a5/Image643.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140722165419)
http://www.geoartcache.com/uploads/5...432928.jpg?205 (http://www.geoartcache.com/uploads/5/0/9/1/5091510/good-afanc_7432928.jpg?205)
http://k38.kn3.net/taringa/2/2/4/2/3...a/31C.jpg?1495 (http://k38.kn3.net/taringa/2/2/4/2/3/3/7/blackera/31C.jpg?1495)
http://orig07.deviantart.net/9e13/f/...oter__andy.png (http://orig07.deviantart.net/9e13/f/2010/211/4/7/avank_by_shooter__andy.png)
http://www.lindwurm.jp/eldersign/img2/144_afanc_0g1.jpg
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__...es/5/50/29.png (http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130328221311/darksummoner/images/5/50/29.png)
I am hoping do something similar to the selkie tails around the group, using a flat monofin to create a fuzzy brown beaver tail and then continuing the tail up into a long-sleeved turtleneck unitard. The tail will also have green patches of scales and spikes like the sixth photo above. I want to make webbed gloves to be more realistic and to help with the swimming. While I would love to be a pro Mer, I don't live in the place for it and I really doubt I would be pretty enough to heir as a mermaid and I don't think anyone wants a lake monster at their parties. But should I ever feel like randomly dressing up, I would like to figure out how to have giant prosthetic beaver and saber teeth as well as ears and a snout.
I am also designing the mechanics needed for a sharktail and will chronicle all that in a different post. But now I will go draw some tail desings and upload them when I have decided they aren't terrible and need to be burned.
MerFanc out.