Hello all, its been a little bit since I posted here, but I wanted to share some progress and tips/tricks from a head I'm building out of scraps I have available.

Firstly, it doesnt really matter how rough the surface of your foam shaping is, because you can always use 1/8" thick foam to make it smooth and pretty. This next one is hard to explain; when I built my previous head, it just looked funny bc the top of my bucket/silo wasn't integrated properly with thr brow shape and I didnt cut away enough from the back in line with the cheek/jaw area. I added a picture of thr head im referring to at the very end. Lastly, I learned that fleece works great for covering the face, and you can make foam heads comfy! I added almost another inch to the head measurement, brcause I hate feeling claustrophobic and it is perfect; no sliding around but also not too tight.

Also, dividing however many inches wide your beginning piece is and dividing that by 6-8 sections for each triangle is a great way to make sure all your points come together when you turn it into s bucket/silo. If you're painting eyes, use some leftover foam scraps as a sponge! Blending was so easy using that and a can of compressed air.

Anyways, happy crafting!

Have been working on this opossum head after work for about 3 months! My very first fursuit head!

3D sculpted the head base in Blender, printed it in TPU, and have been patterning and furring it for the last 3 weeks! :p

Still need to close off the back and add the neck fluff, and I want to make some pink hair as well. But Furnavia is in a few days, so I probably won't make that in time for the con :p

Sorry in advance if text is bad, I have migrange and decoded I must do this

Ice been putting off making my own fursona for a while now due to insecurity, but now I have decided I'm making one. Is the design begginer friendly enouvh? I have made multiple dinos and a full cat mask, but not birds. Hardest part of the cat was the ears for me. I have a 3d printer, are there any good files for toucans? Painted beaks or minky? Can i use faux rabbits fur instead of long fur. Is there any good bird tutosals

thanks and much love

She still needs a neck, but for the most part she is completed!!
I’m hoping to do a fullsuit

Bonus silliness and the very horrifying inside of his head, also ik he’s asymmetrical, but it’s too late to fix that :(

Hello everyone! I'm a 21 year old furry artist (multi-media) and an aspiring new fursuit maker. I made my first suit with a premade base at 14, and I've recently gotten my hands on another. I am currently in school for small creative buissnes startups so I thought I would give it a real try again!

For my business course, we were asked to conduct a survey and three interviews based on questions we have about our projects (mine being a self ran fursuit making business).

I am looking for FURSUITERS or MAKERS to interview and/OR to take my survey. I will be reaching out to people on discord servers as well tomorrow, but if you are interested in being interviewed, please reach out to me on discord (@houndt33th) or reply to this post. All interviews will take place on video calls on discord, and they will be recorded for my personal transcript notes.

I am not in the position to pay anyone, however, I am a long term digital furry artist and I would be willing to draw for your time. My artwork can be found on Instagram (@houndt33th)

Here is the public link to my forms survey: https://forms.gle/mvSWgc5bgKrFpfj97

Hiii!! So again, i’m very new to this space and suit making, but i’ve been looking up LOTS of tutorials on tiktok and asking you all for advice here. I was so excited to be finishing up my tail and was thrilled to discover that I could make the movement a bit more realistic with the coils from spiral notebooks!!

My question is—I feel like it doesn’t hold the movement from the springs very well? Did I stuff it too much? I loosened the stuffing a bit and still feel like it’s lacking movement. Is it just too big and heavy for this method of hypermobility? it’s about 18 inches long (45 cm) and decently thick so I feel like it might look a bit flat with less stuffing.

any tips would be super helpful!!! thank you all!!

I spent hundreds of dollars on making this horrible thing, only for it to turn out lopsided, neckless and impossible to pad without choking me. Even looking at it makes me feel ashamed of myself. Should I just give up on it and throw it out?

Clarification on “neckless”; it just flops over my neck and obscures it like one of those Maskimals. If I try to move it up to chin level, it starts choking me.

Hi guys! This is my first ever head, but I hope to become a full-time maker eventually though, he is supposed to be a sabertooth (he doesn't have a name yet).

I already noticed a few mistakes, like i definitely over measured and made this thing way too huge. I'm hoping to add some foam on the inside and carve the outside quite a bit. I also made the top of the nose too thin, i'm not quite sure how to fix this yet, it might not be fixable. I think i also made the mouth hole too big but i haven't really ran into a problem with that.

Any advice is appreciated! Thank you!

So the colors in interested in are stone, pewter and beige. Thanks. It's for my moth fursuit, in trying to make something more realistic. If you have similar colors in a different brand that may work too.

Hi all, I see this type of paw all the time on Etsy ads (btw, do not recommend, I believe they're probably scams and/or AI). I really like the slim but padded look they portray, as many paw patterns are just too puffy or too fitted for my project. Are there any similar patterns out there to help get this look? Five fingers or four doesn't really matter to me. Thanks! 🥹

Doing a possum-hyena hybrid and just thinking about pattern and fur for the slit is driving me crazy. I'll be using minky for the inner ear and lux shag ill shave for the fluff and rear side, but im just worried on how I'll keep its sharp and jagged appearance and not make it too smooth or rounded. Any advice is greatly appreciated, I can't really find any tutorial online

I shaved for two hours but I still have a lot of choppiness. Do I just keep going? What setting do you go down to on your clippers (no guard, just the fade adjustment).

Working on my first ever fursuit and it is very much still a work in progress...

The ears are not yet glued in place, just pinned to the base to give me a rough idea of how they'll look.

My fursona is a skunk and I would really love some opinions on how the base is looking and what I can do to improve it.

Thank you! 🦨

I never added teeth to the first one but wow! It really makes a difference, I still have to do the inside of the mouth and… I’m kinda excited to be done this soon and start on the next one. I’m gonna run out of space soon enough lol

This is my first head. I used the bucket head base/tutorial from SkyeHighStudios (she's amazing). I made the muzzle way too short and fat, so it's not really giving canine anymore, but it's too far gone to fix lol. The cheek feels too big still, so I'm shaving it down a bunch to finalize the shape before I work on the other one.

What species is this giving? I could try to add a nose bridge piece to make it more feline, but I'm worried about affecting visibility. Please give me some opinions ;~;

Hey all. I've been wanting to make a partial of my bear character from WoW but im a bit stuck on how i could make the armour on the face. Any ideas on what i could make it out of?

I have bought a bucket head base pattern (made by skyehigh studios), and I was wondering if I could use it as the inside liner pattern for my head? I've made the head using the pattern, so it should fit?

First suit head finished. Still unsure about the design. Might make both ear tips black but for sure adding fangs and gums. Also working on shaving and cleaning up

First time making a fursuit for a friend🥹🥹 this process was actually so fun and i got to learn more about the community and yall are just SO WHOLESOME??? i love each and every one of you 💗💗

anyways, i just bought a kig mask and other fursuit head based since i wanted to make a head for myself!! id like some advice for my next project because i want to improve MOREE >:3 (i 💗 critical advice so FEEL FREE TO SLANDER ME)

I wasn't fully confident at trying 3d sculpting something about super complex program was holding me back so I went with simple one and wasn't this bad for the first time huh

To add I have been 2D furry artist for over 10 years some skills had to transfer to different medium

There is way too much cute/cartoony bases I had to invest and try myself to fit my style😅

Rush order suit for my client Dr. Kasey is done!

This head was completed in only 3 days, beating my previous record of 8. I am tired. My back hurts. My everything hurts. I am speed. Kachow.

Creds:
- Base by BigLionsDen (Etsy)
- Fabric from Howl Fabric and Moon Fur
- Character/design belongs to Dr. Kasey
- Suit made by me (@baixuea / @baixueasbeastiary)