🐎 I Had Dreams Of A Unicorn But Ended Up With A Sheep... 🐑

As most of you know I am still rather new at this whole 3D Pen art, in fact this was my third attempt at creating anything specific in mind.

Now I put out the question what should I do next? I had several different responses and one of those was a unicorn, so I set out to give it a go - and well the results were not quite as I had expected but I'm actually rather happy with the end result.

So the whole project started rather simply, for the first time I tried to build it up without a massive support structure - thanks to the strength of the ABS I now use.

With the additional strength I was able to start with a hollow structure and build things up from a frame, whilst I wasn't able to get photos this all started like drawing a circle on the page and then layering up.

By this stage I was starting to build up the body length and begin it's legs, I wanted the legs in so I could build up support around their joints to stave off any possible weak points.

Here he finally gets all four legs and I start to realise he's a bit more round than I had intended him to be, but I figured I could just layer over things to regain the shape I wanted.

I began to build up the base of the neck and chest areas, at this stage a unicorn was still a possibility by the signs of change were coming.

I still foolishly believed a unicorn was coming, but I still hadn't created the butt or the head at this stage so that's when things really started to turn around.

Unfortunately I got distracted by how harshly my objective was changing and morphing, before my eyes and I failed to take enough photos of this part of the process - but as you can see by the next image, I now knew my unicorn had it's own dreams of being a sheep.

Even though he still didn't even have a butt yet, he knew and I knew his unicorn days were over...

But life as a sheep isn't so bad, especially since when I stopped trying to force him to be the unicorn he could never be - he became a pretty awesome little sheep, which just so happens to be my autistic sons favorite animal.

With his butt now intact, it was time to give him a head - or at least to try too.

In the photo below I started to build up the head, this got very fiddly and I soon realised I couldn't take many photos or it would be ruined - this stuff sets really fast, so if you stuff up you only have a few seconds to fix it or keep adding heat and layers but this gets risky.

Here as you can see compared to the above pic where his butt is well formed but the front is narrowed, I spent an insane amount of time building up the front to achieve the perfect rounded look of a sheep.

Again this was a really difficult area so I don't have anymore pictures showing the forming of the head, it took way longer than it probably should have but in the end I think his head looks pretty close to perfect.

So without further delay, here is my unicorn-sheep.

I am really happy with the amount of detail I managed to get into the head, it was incredibly fiddly work but I am happy with the ears and the wool build up around the head in general.

I think in the end I got his proportions rather well, not too much butt with a realistic coat of wool hanging from the chest.

Anyway I look at it I'm pretty stoked, because my 6 year old non verbal autistic son saw the finished product and started yelling Sheep, Sheep, Sheep. with utter enthusiasm to me this was a massive success.

I couldn't be happier with my little sheep, who now might as well be Kai's little sheep - as always it's been a learning process but I think I made the right choice by allowing the unicorn to become the sheep he always wanted to be.

When have you turned a fail into a win?

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