Combining Animals To Create A..Shabbit? Clay Art Doll DIY

A big thank you to Merge Gardens for sponsoring this video. Well, hello there. I got dressed today. Yay! Mostly. I'm still technically wearing pajama pants, but whatever. I got dressed today. Hey guys, welcome back to my channel. I don't know why, but I felt like holding this today. Uh, I really hope I'm not absolutely butchering my audio because otherwise that that really sucks for me and I guess for you too. So if I am, sorry. If I'm not... See now, now I'm gonna want to hold this thing like all the time because I'm having fun. I feel like it's like it's an extra... I can have my hands in shot and just be like, hello guys. Now it has been a little bit of a moment since I've done a random creature design and since I'm still recovering from being sickums, I figured it would be an easy enough project on me yet still hopefully somewhat entertaining for you guys that it would make for a good video. So let's get started. Little guy, what are you doing? What you doing, bud? You have the right idea, but let me show you how it works. When Merge Gardens asked me if I wanted to make one of my random creature designs aka a merged creature and be able to play one of their games, I was beyond excited to get started. You see, Merge Gardens is a combination of multiple merge and match three puzzle games. Not only do you get to merge three of each type of adorable bird or butterfly to make your garden even bigger and better, but you play a super fun relaxing game that has a little bit of mystery storyline thrown in. Honestly, this is one of my favorite aspects of the game. Just merging everything together and just having that be so super satisfying is just... it's chef's kiss. They also have special events all the time. Me and editor Sarah turned the last one into a little bit of a competition, but joke's on me because I forgot how she can get a little The mystery in the game definitely keeps me coming back for more. I just met an adorable housewife that's been trapped in the garden since 1903. She was super cute and funny and I don't want to give away too much, but I think she's about to have a fun time. So if you're like me or editor Sarah or my little friend here and you'd like to have a fun game of adorable little animals and mystery and just fun merging matching games, please visit the link in my description to download the game or you can look at the QR code that's been on screen and remember it is totally free. I ain't gotta pay. You just merge for free. It's a fun time. And thank you once again to Merge Gardens for sponsoring this video. To start, we need some foil, some clay, and sculpting tools. Getting pretty close to the end here. It's getting so small. I think I can only do like one more. You know what's up by now. First step is grabbing some tin foil, aluminum foil, or that ever so snazzy aluminum foil and then squish it into the rough shape of a noggin. In this case, it's an amalgamation of ultimate fluffy critters. Once I have the basic shape down, I break out the box of random things because I'm incredibly unorganized and pick out some eyeballs. That sounds gruesome. I definitely want some big round eyes here as a call to the glorious bulbous eyes that bunnies can have. Once the eyes are chosen, it's time to get to sculpting, starting by slapping a thin layer of clay all over the foil ball. Then it seemed like a good idea to pull up some references, people, references. That's a chubby cheek right there. That's the ultimate chub. I want the head to be a combo of all the animals, but be very bunny heavy. So that meant a very round head with jumbo eyes. My general idea to tackle this random creature design was to make mostly a bunny head, but with a little bit of mix of all the animals for the nose, definitely a sheet body and long thin legs like a deer. And of course, some wee little antlers. But honestly, as you continue on watching, I think you'll find like I did, combining all these animals together really gives some llama vibes. So maybe it's like some variant that has like bunny features. Now I just need to decide on its name. I like shabbit because it's funny to say, but editor Sarah is running for reap. So what would you guys call this little one? For the snoots, I tried to make it longer like a deer, but the nose got sheep like nostrils. I tried to be very conscious of how I switch between each critter. The idea isn't to obviously see where each animal is, but blend them together into something new. And I'm out here trying my darndest to do that. So hopefully it comes across that way. I would be a fool not to give this piece big bunny ears. So of course, that's what we're going with. I plan to make them posable later. So we can have either your standard upright bun bun or your lop bum bun with flappy ears if you so fancy. Then to keep on the deer leg aspect, I make tiny little hooves. But these ended up being too big still. So I changed them out later on. Once all the sculpting is done, it's time to move on to some ASMR armature time. Stop bouncing away from me. Once clicky time is done, it's time to attach the clay pieces, which means making holes in the back of the head. I then fill the cavities with glue and attach the ears and armature. The head is looking so precious so far and love how depending on how I'm looking at it, I can see aspects of all the animals. And the posable ears are everything and can change the vibe from I'm a spunky bouncy thing to I'm a shy little thing. Hug me, I'm scared. But with all that done, it's time to move on to the body. And for that, we use tried and true quilt batting. I cut it into strips, many, many strips, and wrap it every which way around the body until it's sufficiently thickums. Making sure not to go too chonk though, to account for the fluff we'll be adding later on. But like I always say, like I always say, if you want chonk, chonk, chonk, boy, you go and you get chonk, chonk, chonk, boy. If you want thin, thin, thin, boy, you go and you get thin, thin, thin, boy, okay? We support all body shapes and sizes here. I'm going for like farm chonk. God, look at that face. That is a cute face. Squish, squish, squish. Oh, before I forget, here's the new feet I made. I made them out of Instamore, so they'll still be sturdy even with being as tiny as they are. You can really see how big the previous ones were in comparison. But now it's on to sewing. I'll be using this Sherpa faux fur to hopefully give a nice wool thickums look. Now, it's a running joke that I don't know how to sew, and outside of basics, that is true. But some of you scold me for being so harsh on myself. One, that's adorable. Two, I promise it's all in good fun. I resort to self-deprecating humor because I haven't a clue what to say during this segment, since I'm explaining that I'm just cutting amoeba looking shapes and sewing them together until suddenly it's a body. Trying to explain that coherently still eludes me, so I resort to saying I haven't a clue what I'm doing, which is still somehow also true. Just know that I both know and don't know what I'm doing. For the legs, I went with this rich brown fur. I wanted to go with this type of sheep, but changed the black to brown to resemble the deer more. Here is the sewn body. It's looking a little bit questionable, but we're just gonna trust the process and move on to the face. Before I can put fur on the head, I need to cover the drab gray with a drab brown. This just prevents any gray peeking through the fluff if or rather when I miss a spot. And now we fluffify! If only it was that easy in real life. And now it's time to shear this boy. Farming terms. No need for the electric shaver this time, as I don't want to trim the body at all. I want to keep that as floofy as possible. I just need to trim the legs and face with some scissors. This step is just really satisfying for me, just slowly revealing the body shape underneath. Why do you need a tiny hoof if he's so small? Thickums, small. For the face, I attempt once again to use these thinning scissors. It does prevent a blunt cut, but I'm pretty sure these things hate me for making them cut fake fur because they throw a fit the entire time. And I'm pretty sure I'm making them blunt as heck. But they get the job done nonetheless. And once trimmed, we just need to do a little bit of airbrushing. I realized pretty quickly this fur is thin as heck and you can see the backing from certain angles. To combat that, I just blend it all in with the airbrush so it's nice and seamless. Here's a comparison. That's what I get for using fur from the back of my closet. But thankfully, it's an easy fix. The only other thing was to blend the brown fur into the wool-like fur so it's not just a harsh line between the two. I also darkened the nose since deer tend to have dark noses. Someone be proud of me and how hard I'm considering everything. I hand-painted the finer details like inside the nose to hide the boogies. It felt like I was digging for gold. And paint the lip line to make it pop more, praying I don't mess up because it's a pain to fix. Since all these animals tend to have pretty dark eyes for the most part, I just painted mine black. Also painted the little hooves black just so they could pop a little bit more against the brown fur. I then brush a thin coat of UV resin to make the eyes extra glossy. For the tail, you all know I had to go with a little cotton tail. How could I not? This is just brushed out fur from the body and it just looks so poofy. Look at me, short. I'm the captain now. I just scrunched up the fur and glued it to his bum and my god, that's cute. Final detail is the antlers that I totally didn't almost forget to make. I don't picture this fella growing giant antlers or anything but rather keeping tiny little nubs. They are also made from Instamore. Once done, I just part the fur and glue them on. And with that, this little bean is all done and we can take a gander at the final montage.