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[strangegutz]

Your dolls are really cool! the scrap series reminds me of fairies made out of fabric scraps and whatever magic fairies are made out of, whimsical and magical and fun!!!!

Yes!! Exactly how I envision them- Magical energy built up in my fabric bins and scraps started crawling out...! I'll blame them for how messy my studio is.

It's a good cartoon :) I never stopped liking it

[strangegutz]

Heads up, this one is fine but you'll notice if you look around Strike Gently Co's blankets- I'm pretty sure a big chunk of recent ones are AI generated

I was about to suggest Inner Decay to get cool woven blankets, but I went to double check and now he has a bunch of AI generated blankets too. Bummer!

[davidwfloydart]

Who the Fuck?… #memes😂 #whothefuckareyou #strangetexts #funnymemes (at Catalina Foothills, Arizona) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkMHUL2ydzizDTmALIfVfyE9YR1dYWaHMZ-GLY0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[crazy-nothingness]

strange

[strangegutz]

don't call my (or anyones) art "cursed" it makes you sound annoying and boring

[strangegutz]

my house, smack in the middle of a neighborhood, kept getting marked as a generically named electronics store on google maps. Found out because we started getting junk mail addressed to it. Took a few times for the correction to stick

Google Maps is worse than useless - actively harmful

Hard to overstate how enshittified and botshitted Google Maps has become. Went looking for my local locksmith on Gmaps. Maps shows 20+ fake locksmith referral scam outlets and doesn't even register the real locksmith, despite it being fully visible in Street View.

Instead, a red pin on the shop identifies it as a fake locksmith scammer. The real locksmith - which has been there SINCE 1942 (!!) and is a verified merchant - doesn't even show up.

Google has been promising to clean up locksmith scams since the early 2010s, and has completely failed. A company that can't figure this out - but still has $80b for a stock buyback! - does not deserve the 90% market share in search it spends $26b/year to maintain.

[strangegutz]

sorry if this is a question you get a lot but do you know/remember the first art doll you ever made & why/how you started? your art is really amazing & inspiring to me so i just think seeing how you started off would be interesting, but i understand if you dont want to show it or anything heh :P

Would be this one. Still holds up, imo! Ive been sculpting, painting, sewing, and just all around crafting for my whole life so the difference isn't super drastic. I started because my buddy @s3rnielsen said "hey you have those skills, put them together and make dolls" and I said "sounds good to me!"

[strangegutz]

I've started just blocking anyone being annoying or negative in my tags as advised by my council of trusted advisors, so keep ya heads down, ok?

[strangegutz]

If it's okay to ask, did something happen with Heartbreak Gulch? Forgive me if it's imposing, I was just surprised at the shift away from it because you seemed so keen :(

I was made privy to a deep financial issue that I didn't know about, so I have to put down the toys, so to speak. It hurts a lot to put them on hiatus, because it felt like I was really getting somewhere with it, but they don't pay the bills, and drawing takes up a lot of time I could be using to work. HBG will still be there, it's hung around my head for 8 years, but I gotta go cold turkey for now ❤️

Hopefully everyone that followed for them will stick around, I'm sure I'll squeeze in some doodles here and there, and my friends are still drawing my characters when I can't!

[strangegutz]

hope u liked it because i’m gonna post more of it. GET SCARED!

and BE FOLLOWING PUZZ. WHAT ARE YOU DOING.

anyway.

i hope you have all enjoyed THE HEARTBREAK CODED BACKLOG OF OCTOBER 2024. if you did you are required by law to go follow @strangegutz and enjoy of more cowboys for ever. sorry it's the rules...! you have to go enjoy large hairy sci-fi weird west men...! no other way!!

[strangegutz]

Would asking for a robot’s schematics be the same as requesting nudes?

yes because there’s nothing funnier to me than robot "adult materials" being just photos of wires and circuits

[strangegutz]

hello mr gutz!

may i ask for your advice on how to apply yarn wefts to my doll with horns? i found out how to make them but i’m not sure how to apply them to her head. her heads kinda like this -> (‘\ /‘) if that gives you a vague idea? btw feel free to ignore this if you got to much going on :3

anyways please & thank you

the ‘ are her horns & the \/ are her bangs

OK SO. let's see how I can explain how to do this. Keep in mind that even just applying wefts takes practice! It'll get easier to figure out complex styles as you go. I pulled out a couple old dolls with horns to show you their hairlines-

It's hard to explain exactly what to do, but hopefully you can glean a bit from these here- honestly I suggest just going for it, I think it'll come more naturally than you think

It kinda comes down to your top layer, the wefts you lay down at the top of the head, covering up the ugly layers below it. Use some hairspray and an eyebrow/eyelash comb or spoolie to get things in place before cutting the bangs.

All that being said, if you don't need the root of the horn showing, take the easy road and sculpt the horns separately, and attach them into the head after applying the hair using wire/toothpicks and glue

I use hot glue, and have found it pretty easy to pull off chunks of wefts and reposition them if needed.

[strangegutz]

I let my studio get way too messy. Behold my work

[strangegutz]

Eddie is kinda ugly ngl :/

[strangegutz]

im also kinda burnt out on art. its weird, like "oh i should draw but i really dont want to"

[strangegutz]

Honestly upset to see this man clean shaven, praying and hoping this is some sick twisted April Fools Day prank.

Yes... I have tricked you all... I can't even look at it myself it's so messed up LMAO

Heartbreak Gulch work is going on hiatus though, I don't want to leave you all with smooth Eddie, so let's have a pallette cleanser: