fursuit [beastcub]

so i am working in the cold and i got myself a heat bulb from walmart (big clear blub, looks like a floodlight) it heats for about 1 foot from the bulb with a 2 food wide warmth spand side to side so i am painting 1/3 of the suit at the time and drying it with the head lamp.

this suit included black CR's cubby fur in the areas i was not painting.
i came back like 40 minutes later to find a 3 inch spot on the knee, which was like 6 inches from the bulb, and was black, is now rust fox red D:?
the fur was not curled and melty, the color was changed all the way down to the base coat.

i fixed it by painting it black, but still, it had to of been the heat lamp...and now curiosity has me fired up to see if i can change other colors with the heat lamp, i bet the color change is more permanent than air brushing and maybe just maybe i can apply this new find on purpose.

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fursuit [dragonlady2000]

Commonly Used Words and Phrases

Fur ‘pile’ – Refers to the general length of the faux furs individual hairs/fibers itself and sometimes thickness.

Fur ‘grain’ – Or the ‘lay’, refers to the natural direction the fur tends to want to lay. Like on an animal if you pet from there head to tail its nice and smooth, but vice versa it gets bumpy, ragged and the animal might get mad. So when furing a fursuit, costumers tend to like to replicate this for a more natural appearance.

‘Taping’ – Refers mostly to making detailed tape patterns for ‘furring’ and sometimes the making a duck tape dummy or a ‘DTD’.

DTD - A duct-tape dummy. When someone wraps themselves or a part of themselves in duct tape to create a perfect pattern of their body.

DF - A short phrase for a specific online seller of fur known as ‘Distinctive Fabric’.

CR(CR's) - A short phrase for a specific online seller of fur known as ‘CR's Crafts’.

‘Mask’ – What usually come first to mind is just a cloth or a plastic face piece that goes over your own akin to one you’d see at Halloween or a costume party. But a lot of fruiters tend to refer to there mascot/costume heads as there ‘masks’.

‘Moving Jaw’ – Aptly named, this refers to the jaw and mechanism (spring or elastic etc.) that moves with the wearers own jaw movements.

‘Static Jaw’ – Refers to when the jaw is set into a fixed position on the head and doesn’t move.

‘Digitigrade’ and ‘Plantigrade’ – Refers to the style of leg/feet of the costume. To put it simply, ‘Digitigrade’ walks on its toes like a dog, while ‘Plantigrade’ walks on its heel, like humans.

'Guard Hairs' – are the longer, coarser hairs of the coat, as opposed to the undercoat, which is the shorter, denser part of the fur.

‘Tiped’ - Refers to the coloration of faux fur were the tips of the hairs are a different color then the underlying fur.