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Published: 2019-01-04 21:35:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 28482; Favourites: 2696; Downloads: 140
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Work for the future TeaFeathers art book, funded through Patreon! A pylura glass specialist from the SaβDimali, a tribe of fierce desert dwelling Alecani and Pylura. Snakes are central to Sa'Dimali culture, as is glass making and glass artisanship. This individual is making a portrait of their companion snake out of a deep blue-green glass. Sa'Dimali often have snake companions, some of which may be magically blessed to be able to communicate with their chosen pylura or alecani. Maybe this one is telling her pylura, "be sure to get my good side!"Here's the companion piece to this one -TeaFeathers - Sa'Dimali Snake Wrangler
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This is super cool, but I confess I'm not sure how one would *carve* glass without the whole thing shattering!
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Nobody moves... he's working.Β
Awesome Job ^^ Amazing :3Β
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tooooooooooooooooooooo cute !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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love everything, especially the sculpture c:
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From the thumbnail I thought it was the Snowager for a second! 
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Really like the reflection work on the statue.
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LMAO it kinda does, doesn't it!
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It looks like shit.Β
No, it ACTUALLY kinda looks like a pile of shit
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Wait a minute, what are you carving mr. cat!!??
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I can see why almost 2,000 people have faved this. There's a lot of great detail in this! Everything looks beautiful, including the cat!
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Why thank you!
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oh I really love the level of detail and thought that went into this.
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glass carving?!!! Oo
For some reason I am not convinced lol
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I mistook this for a felyne from Monster Hunter
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Hi!Β I just want to let you know it's not polite to advertise your own work on the pages of other artists.Β Please don't do this.Β Second, don't call your art crap, be kinder to yourself!Β You wouldn't put up with someone else telling you your art is crap, don't put up with it from yourself.Β <3
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Ty, And Sorry if I Offened You Or (The Advertizment) I feel Kinda Guilty now :/??
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Don't feel bad, everyone learns this bit of etiquette the first time at some point!Β Just keep making art and having fun!Β
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what an amazing artwork!! gosh i loving it!
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Stunning piece. The pylura are so sweet and your world at large is very fascinating. I'm curious though, as far as I know I don't think its actually possible to carve such large pieces of glass by hammer and chiseling it in this way, certainly not without machine assistance at any rate - do the pylura make a special kind of glass, tool, or magic, to do this? Do they ever partake in glass blowing and sculpting glass from a molten state?
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Thank you so muchΒ Some glass carving is possible to an extent, but the Pylura also work with unrealistic forms of glass (tempered for extreme strength, imbued with magical properties etc) so I figured chiseling and sanding would be ok!
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Wonderful! That makes sense - I imagine magically imbued glass behaving almost something like resin or hard plastic when it needs to. The depth and thought in your species' cultures and magics are so intriguing and memorable.
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i really like this piece, especialy the way you drew the sculpture, well done, ~favs~
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This is actually pretty cool. I like the way you did the fur and clothing.
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Β hm.. can glass be carved actually? O.o or maybe magic just makes is sturdier
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A little bit of real life glass carving is possible, but not really as shown here I don't think!Β Pylura have cool magical techniques to reinforce the glass, and to imbue it with other neat properties.
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It can. If ice carvings exist (and ice behaves in a similar way to glass sometimes) then why not?
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Β yeah you're right 
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Ermm.... because glass is substantially harder? I'm not a specialist, but in my opinion if you try carving glass with a chisel and a hammer you'll just carve it into a pile of shattered glass pieces.
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From a quick search (I'm using a hardness scale) glass has a hardness of 5.5 and ice of about 1.5 so sure (10 is diamond, 1 is Talc for example), there is some difference. However, the hardness should not effect how it can be carved because people carve things out of stone, and stones like granite have a hardness of 6-7. If you're thinking about glass shattering, that does not happen as easily when it's a solid structure. We're just used to seeing it shatter easily because we use them as thin, delicate panes on windows. Either way it's a awesome piece of art!
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It isn't only the hardness, but its combination with other properties of the material, which, in the case of glass, I believe, make it uncarvable. Not with a chisel. Sure, there are techniques to carve and etch glass, but I seriously doubt that includes a chisel and a hammer. If you know better, show me an example of something carved this way.
I don't deny it's a beautiful piece.
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To be honest I probably don't know better lol, i can see what you mean by that. Possibly if it was to carve surface details? Because in retrospect if it was made into a very jagged shape like that using only a chisel, that would seem close to impossible.
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I wouldn't know. As far as I know, chiselwork is jagged by definition. That's why you move to smaller and smaller chisels as you work on refining details, but in the end you still gotta go through with it with sandpaper to make it smooth, it's not quite possible with a chisel, I think. And jagged shapes are rather easy and natural to do with one, because that's the shape the chisel cuts anyway. Only, not on glass.
Btw, sandpaper wouldn't work on glass either. Not hard enough.
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Well, I learnt something new today Wonder what you could use as an alternative (without access to industrial tools).
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