"Release the Kraken" leather project

@clumsy-george thank you so much. I will indeed share the progress of this project right here.
Thanks to my insomnia last night i might have finished the drawing, just no idea how i can take over so many tiny details onto the leather. But we will see.

@clumsy-george I totally agree with you, but ofc the smaller the pattern, the harder it is to get it nicely on the leather, but I will figure it out.

Behold, the for now latest update of the drawing. I changed the tentacles a bit up, so especially the middle ones go now over eachother which looks nicer in my humble opinion.
And I added some detail to the head to make it more squid-like.

@stacky-a thank you so much! I am really not good at drawing (was one of my worst subjects at school), but I am quite happy how it turned out. I will keep you guys posted.

@BO05TER haha you are welcome...I took a deep dive to uncover this mystery for my fellow pirates!

@closinghare208 thank you!

@SpecialAdvisor: thanks so much! But now I am scared to mess it up.

I wouldn't have thought that pirates would like my Kraken that much.

@lizalaroo Thank you for the high praise! I will keep ye all updated!

@musicmee thank you so much!

@ixxolos thank you! please show the wallet when it arrives! I originally started leatherworking because I wanted to make tack for my horse, but lately I am so much more inspired of piraty things. It is actually easier than it looks like and great effects can be accomplished with a little training. If you are really interested, I would say: give it a go!

Edit:
In the meanwhile I noticed my drawing was slightly (waaaay) too big for the leatherpiece, so when bent the head of the poor kraken would have bent in not so natural or healthy ways. Therefore it took me about 1 hour to figure out a size which still allows me to take over as many details possible with the least effect on the overall pattern.

SO I finally was able to transfer my patter, errm the terrible Kraken to the leatherpiece

And used my swivel knife to carve in the outlines...ready to hammer the kraken to life tomorrow!

@ixxolos the colour looks really cool! I also first thought about using this kraken pattern, but well I tend to over complicate stuff, so I wanted MORE :-)

I did get a bit further today.

I first stamped the outlines of our kraken:

Then added the background to make it stand out a bit more

And added a few details:

last step for today was to put the leather in a coat of special oil:

as soon as it is dry I can start dying it.

@personalc0ffee thank you! I am gonna make a phone holder though. No safer place for my phone than in the tentacles of The Kraken.

Slowly I am getting there:

It is dyed and all that is left is a to apply a sealer and then stich the loop for the belt on and build it up. I left the paint a bit messy since I wantd to give the leather already a more worn out look.

@revanjstone thank you! they are fins and I tried to let them pop out a bit more by using the black background colour inbetween them, but I am not super happy with the result. But ye, they could be seen as flames :-)
since it is my very first kraken I am quite happy with how the details worked out though.

And it is DONE!

I stitched the sides together and added the snaps ( well not in that order, that would have been difficult) and this is the result:

and of course it has a loop to put on the pirate belt, so the phone is safe with me on all the adventures

Thank you all so much for following me on my latest SoT-Leather adventure!

@specialadvisor thank you for the compliment
@stacky-a also thank you! :-)

@PirateCraggy Well I am thinking about making a pirate belt. Something along the line you showed, but I also started to look at ingame belts that might be doable from leather. So a belt is certainly still on my want to do list!

@triheadedmonkey thanks again for the serious clapping :-)