dark unicorn mask

Since the last year has seen me have fairly unreliable access to a laser cutter, I’ve been a lot less motivated to design new leather things. Which has not been fun. But I did finally make a new mask!

For a while I've wanted to do a project mimicking the aesthetic of the changelings in MLP. I think this did pretty well as a project without being a direct copy or anything. I've still got some other project ideas in that vein, but this was a good proof of concept.

This was entirely hand-cut out of 4 oz vegetable-tanned leather. The horn has an iridescent blue acrylic paint on it, and the whole thing is sealed with a clear matte acrylic. I’ll translate this design into CAD so I can laser-cut future iterations, and I’ll probably tweak the horn a bit when I do that. But I’m pretty happy with the design as a whole! I’ll put it up for sale on my Etsy once I manage to get some photos of it being worn.