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A mini commission for Crindorada of their fearless seafaring zebra character, Captain Cebrastian. I'm not sure exactly what possessed me to agree to do a zebra character in mini form, not even having done a full size zebra before and generally having a policy against doing complex markings on mini plushes, but...I plead temporary insanity. That said, I do actually love how he turned out.

This guy gave me a huge amount of trouble (which surprises absolutely no one ever). Initially I intended to airbrush his stripes on, but he was simply too small for me to effectively mask the areas that needed to stay white, and that try failed miserably. Next I decided to applique his stripes, but as I expected, on such a small plush the added stiffness imposed by the applique pulled his body out of shape and looked horrible. So finally, I resorted to fusing his stripes on, which took absolutely forever and would probably be considered cheating by some but I am very happy with the look of. *gasp*

Cebrastian is made of Snow White, Royal, Electric Blue and Azure minky with applique and fused details. His cloak is lined cotton; the design along the edge of it is hand painted with heatfixed fabric paints. His little earring is a silver pendant that I've been carrying around since I was 12 in the hopes that I would find the perfect thing to use it on - and now I have! Cebrastian is 6" tall to the top of his head.

Now I need to go eat something because I've been working on him since 8:30 am without stop.

*passes out*

Description
A mini commission for Crindorada of their fearless seafaring zebra character, Captain Cebrastian. I'm not sure exactly what possessed me to agree to do a zebra character in mini form, not even having done a full size zebra before and generally having a policy against doing complex markings on mini plushes, but...I plead temporary insanity. That said, I do actually love how he turned out.

This guy gave me a huge amount of trouble (which surprises absolutely no one ever). Initially I intended to airbrush his stripes on, but he was simply too small for me to effectively mask the areas that needed to stay white, and that try failed miserably. Next I decided to applique his stripes, but as I expected, on such a small plush the added stiffness imposed by the applique pulled his body out of shape and looked horrible. So finally, I resorted to fusing his stripes on, which took absolutely forever and would probably be considered cheating by some but I am very happy with the look of. *gasp*

Cebrastian is made of Snow White, Royal, Electric Blue and Azure minky with applique and fused details. His cloak is lined cotton; the design along the edge of it is hand painted with heatfixed fabric paints. His little earring is a silver pendant that I've been carrying around since I was 12 in the hopes that I would find the perfect thing to use it on - and now I have! Cebrastian is 6" tall to the top of his head.

Now I need to go eat something because I've been working on him since 8:30 am without stop.

*passes out*