The first feeps of 2012 have begun rising from the depths and crawling from the crevices. I'll be adding them to the Etsy store throughout the week. Let us begin with the tiniest version of the largest animal on earth.
The final decision: one brave feep will stand for a photo with the possibly very dangerous fuzzy caterpillar, while the rest will back away to a safe distance, lest the flash enrages the beast.
I'm not saying it's going to be Monotreme Week here at Feep o' the Morning, but once I realized how to make a duck bill I guess I did go a little crazy.
Making a feep platypus was harder than it might seem. There's always something a bit more difficult about making a feep version of an animal that's essentially already a living feep.
Do cat snakes eat rat snakes? If the behave anything like their mammalian counterparts, they just try really, really hard to ignore this thing that is intruding on their lap space.
A couple of months ago I was commissioned to make a feep pig, and this was the result. That's not a petri dish, by the way: it's sitting in a lid because the glaze I put on it was still drying as I was taking these pictures, so I needed to be able to move it without touching it.
I did this drawing of an owl feep as a gift for a friend who really likes owls. I haven't had much time lately to work on ACEOs, which is why you haven't seen any new ones from me lately. I have a stack that are inked and just need to be colored, though, so perhaps I'll be able to get those done in time for STAPLE!
I don't make a whole lot of snakes because it turns out many people's snake phobia extends even into the small and cute and make of clay. The feep snakes tend to go home with snake enthusiasts, but these people are greatly outnumbered by the, uh, anti-enthusiasts.
One of a set of three sugar glider feeps I was commissioned to make. Amusingly, their feep incarnations are not much smaller than the actual sugar gliders themselves.
I'm a cartoonist and a sculptor. The cartoons are generally aimed at adults and tend to be Not For Everyone. The sculpts are my Feeping Creatures monster figurines and art, and are suitable for all ages. I do a lot of scfi-fi/comic conventions and art fairs where I sell the Feeps as part of my ongoing effort to increase the number of monsters in people's homes and offices.
I come up with the captions for these photos first thing in the morning, when I'm still half asleep. If they seem a little surreal sometimes that's probably why. You are more than welcome to comment with your own caption ideas.