I think, you were on the right path! The needlefelt technique would be great, if you don't poke it in completely in lines but in "dots"... so... it's hard to explain xD just take a tiny amount of wool and just poke it in at one side just so it is attached to the tiger. The other side shall be loose and should look just right in the direction of the blue fur like it grew out of the tiger. To create stripes, just go on with those in a row. I would love to see you try it like this again! Don't give that poor pretty boy up :) ah, and maybe before you stich the fur on you could attach a felt underground for the wool to stay on when you poke it in later.

Sloop You could always try doing lighter blue, purple and like a silvery white for the stripes to still have Galaxy effects for the stripes

I have been meaning to comment for a few weeks. I found you through Dollightful and just love your art and your amazing energy. You are so encouraging and inspiring . I think it’s great that you decided to post your “fail” video. It’s not easy to do with all the curated content on social media but every artist hits walls and stumbling blocks , it’s part of the process. I look forward to all the art you decide to share on this channel. Thanks for being awesome!

I would say hold onto your boy, for a bit to see what you can do with him. I was wondering if lights would work for the stripes?

That sliding into shot was so hilariously wholesome I couldn’t help but giggle aloud lol. I love your artsy videos and I always get super excited when I see a new upload!!

Oooo you could add in some pink and purple color variations (like nebula) and paint the eyes and claws white. Then maybe clear crystals or pearly decorations/jewelry

I really liked the white stripes on it! Oh and i really love how you show more and more of your beautiful, bubbly character in these videos! I always enjoyed watching you make these beautiful artdolls, but sometimes I would just skip to the end to see how it looks. Now, since you started interacting with the camera more, I'm always excited for the next video!

Remember: Just because it looks like hot trash to you, someone else will LOVE it. Both greenie and the needle felt were great takes. I don't think the lumpiness of the needle felt is really a detriment as it is textural. I wonder if you could not do some needle felting in blues and purples and have it coming off the figure, almost wispy like a nebula? That would be cool. Add some gems for "stars" and airbrush a lil purple. There ya go.

As someone else mentioned if you felted the lines in dots so that one end is felted and the other has the fibres flowing with the fur that would blend it better. But back to how you were doing it, I know it wasn't what you were intending, but it did still look cool with the way you felted it, it looked like cracks with lava beneath. Maybe an idea for an earth type creature, brown or green fur with orange "lava" line felting running through. It is hard when what you make doesn't end up looking how you intended it, but happy little accidents happen too :)

I love his structure, he's got so much potential! keep him for a bit and wait for the muse to strike again. You'll figure it out.

I think both of them look pretty cool, and definitely aren't lost causes Maybe in the future, you could use test swatches for painting, that way you wouldn't have to sew a new doll.

THIIIIIIIIS!!! I've got countless 'failed' pieces that have taught me SO MUCH about my process (arguably more than my successes) and it always sucks to go through but the lessons learned are important!

Keep him! Recovering from a fail is good feels. Also blue might be a great base for a winteryboi.

i wanted to let you know you inspired me to FINALLY take the plunge and start up my own channel... thank you for always telling me to do the thing..

As an artist who's been at it for 12 years, knowing professionals even mess up, gives me alot of confidence because it gives me space to learn and accept it.

Yo, this is actually really important. Even when you fail, you learn something. If only what NOT to do. And by showing your mistakes, you will teach others what not to do.

I'm glad you are showing us your fails! I think its a good thing to show that its okay to fail sometimes , not everything will be perfect haha

Are the “stripes” out of stars! Maybe not your original vision, but that would look SO cool!

Blue and yellow is such a pretty combination but so damn hard to pull off, I’m so glad someone else acknowledges the pain 💀 Honestly though, I think he’s cute

Just the vibe of the viceover makes me so happyyyyyyy you go girlllllll

Didn't you make a really cool celestial deer with a similar color scheme? You could do similar decorations, like those cool golden chains, and maybe arrange them where the stripes would have gone?

That big cat is so beautiful as it is. It doesn't always have to be an extra complicated piece. He looks cute and no one can say otherwise (of course it'd be better if you painted his eyes). Also, since you're talking about trying new things, I wanna challenge you to make a sea animal. Whatever you want, but a sea creature (I saw your sea dragon but I mean like, making a whale or a very colorful fish and try to do something different, just to see how it turnes out). Love your videos so much! Greetings from Argentina😊

I love the funny music and wiggly camera footage for the montage. It shows that you still kept your funny side even through the struggle of retrying soo many times.

I really do appreciate videos like this. I get stubborn tunnel-vision like this a *lot* and it is kind of comforting to know other people struggle with it too haha

Your work is always so lovely, and I honestly adore this friend! I'm certain you can get to a point where you're happy with him!

Ahhhh he's gorgeous, I can only see so much potential! My art senses are tingling haha. I would love to get into art doll making, and this boy looks like he would be a fun base to work with for people like me who want to get their feet wet in customizing. I say either give him to someone who will learn a lot from the experience or keep him, sit on him for a while, then try again! He can be an experimental guinea pig to try some new techniques maybe? Thanks for showing the video! You do amazing work, and as a fellow artist, I appreciate seeing this kind of thing, really helps me not feel alone when I have bad art days. :)

I think the molding of his head is absolutely amazing!! maybe for the stripes you could use small gold chains pinned into place!! like what you gave the starry night deer only more precise!

You have a beautiful imagination and you're so talented at bringing it to life. So many people would give anything to have the skills that you do! You're amazing!

The intro is such a vibe though :)

Sloop. You are amazing and talented, keep up all the good work and it’s not a fail if you learned from it and grew as an artist. 🥰

Cut long orange fur and glue in place. Love your upbeat encouragement, you inspire so many artists.

Your needle felting technique is getting better. So amazing technique was great and I know you will make the art doll awesome.

the setup looks great kay!

As a needle felter I'd be worried about the longevity of stripes done that way. Without natural scaling getting faux fibers to felt securely is really tough. Honestly I think he looks fine just solid blue! He's like a blue variant of a black panther. Some more dramatic shadowing might give him a cool "night cat" effect :3

Thank you for being brave enough to show us this "fail " I can relate to having a vision that just couldn't make it into reality. Energy through your discouragement, you never lost that beautiful energy of yours. Thank you did sharing this.

i liked how it turned out, but something i would suggest is to use an old t shirt and thinned out pva glue and glue on blue flocked yarn, and then add a light layer of felted white yarn for the stripes.

Just started watching your channel recently and I’ve been loving it!! Such great background noise for when Im drawing ^^

Просто обожаю ваш канал ❤️❤️, продолжайте в том же духе

It's so fun seeing a proffessional artist at work, and thank you for showing just how much hassle it is to try to make something look good.

I love this video so much in conjunction with your beautiful cheerleading to all creatives. you are always so positive and encouraging and believe in every creator that you run into, but it's so nice to watch you fail alongside us. even if someone actually completes the thing they are attempting, it doesn't always turn out the way they envision it. getting to see someone who is so talented and creative still make something that is objectively better than a lot of folks could do and yet be disappointed in the results? it's weirdly encouraging for me. even my failures can improve while still being failures and pay off in experience and technique.

Oh... God.....I NEED HIM AS A PET, YOU BEAUTIFUL CREATURE

I've only recently been subscribed to you, but this video really helped me out! I'd been working a drawing for like two weeks only for it to turn out the complete opposite way than what I wanted, and as a result, I'd been comparing myself to other artists and thinking that they were a hundred times "better". I feel like your video really helped me remember that all artists sometimes go through art blocks and obstacles, no matter the skill level. 💛

I was having such a bad crafting day and in the end I just down to watch KZfaq and seeing this video comforted me a lot ❤

Kaypea is a true artist! Not only gifted and talented, but she also shares her „secrets“ with us (because she know herself what she’s capable of and has not to fear any concurrence), and now shows that not all projects turn out as desired. That‘s also a very important part of an artists life! Most people think when they watch art vids on YT „Uuuuh, an artist finishes a project in like two hours, and it turns out so good!“ , but nobody shows how much time and effort and even nerves it costs until an artwork is completed. I mean, I’m an artist myself, and sometimes an ide looks good in my mind, but on paper... nah! But some friends of mine get motivated in doing art themselves when they see my stuff. And when they fail in their project or when a drawing doesn’t turn out like they wanted they are frustrated. They think I only snip my hands and my art creates itself. I also have artblocks or days where an artwork risks to turn out wrong. That’s totally natural! Kaypea, and I‘m thankful for this video and everything you share with us. That makes you so likeable 🤗

He’s a cutie!!! Even though he didn’t come out the way you wanted he’s still really cool!!! I know eventually you’ll figure something really cool for his stripes, maybe embroidery or resin stripes would work!!! The green did look cool, like northern lights!!! Sending you love and inspiration!!! ✨✨✨

Okay.... so, a couple things here.... 1. You are the essence of adorable and deserve all the snuggles. 2. I love that you shared your "fail" with us because, you're right, no one ever posts their b-roll/mess ups/goofs/etc. 3. Girl you got me laughing so hard during this that I can't even work on my painting. I'm shaking too much. 4. I legit said it with you, without even thinking about it. "References people, references." 5. Keep it up KP. You're amazing and we adore you.

I love that you chose to show us what you feel is a failure. Yes, he didn’t turn out the way you envisioned but I learned some time ago that art has a mind of its own. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow. Maybe airbrush on black stripes and see how you like him. You could also try adding the yellow and orange on top of the black and maybe you wouldn’t get the green. Also, the stitch you are using to sew up the fur is called a ladder stitch. Because the stitches look like the rungs of a ladder before you pull them closed. Oh yeah, I almost forgot, sloop!

You could try adding more blacks, purples, and whites, and then add white flecks like stars. That might be pretty cool!

I always thought I was a bad artist but hearing what you said changed my life thank you so much 🥰🥰🥰🌸🌺

You did so well with the base of the tiger! He's beautiful just the way he is, however. I do agree with you that the white stripes on blue made it look more celestial. The idea(s) that comes to mind are maybe make the stripes into constellations OR use glow in the dark powder and some how make it stick to the white stripes so he can glow in the dark? You are amazing, never stop shining♥

Sloop! This video was exactly what I needed! The good advice, reassurance, and the knee-jerking humor made my entire day~ And as someone who loves texture, I think I'd go a little insane trying to find a fitting material to act as the tiger's stripes. Gold chains, harnesses, beading, handing sewing patches of yellow fur, glued on gold flowers? I'd try them all!

I think this was a really good idea and you should continue this galaxy tiger and maybe do a redraw video or smth like give it gold eyes and retry doing the stripes.

You've been such a huge inspiration for my friend and I! we're now both making our first art dolls together and have been binge-watching your videos as we create!

True words! You can't master something the first time you do it, it takes practice and experience. Not everything is gonna go perfectly the first try, so keep trying till it works! I myself am still learning new methods of painting things as well as learning a 3D modeling program!

gosh you are such a lovely artist!! the way you get passionate about your work and have fun with everything

I don’t know how well this would work or not, but my first thought was to tie some gold/shiny yarn around a thread and create some wefts on that string that you could sew directly into the doll. Sounds really tedious, but it’s really the only thing I can think of at the moment that could work for your current concept(I’m sure there’s plenty of other ways to get the gold stripes though). Anyway, whatever you decide for him, I hope later you can give him some new life! I’d love to see what you end up doing, your art is so beautiful and inspiring!!

This is so good! My daughter and I are slowly working through your videos, and I so appreciate you making a video where things didn't quite turn out how you wanted. It makes it so much more relatable and inspirational for people. And what you did make is still beautiful!

I think the white stripes would look AMAZING! Maybe even a galaxy with stars or something. He is a great base with so many options. You will find the one that works best for him. Like you always tell us "You got this!" ❤️

I really appreciate you showing this, it really helped a lot. A few years ago I made my first art doll using one of your videos for help. She's not perfect but I do love her. I didn't hate his green stripes to be honest. However the felting was a cool idea and if you don't really like the stark orange, maybe golden yellow would work better or shimmery wool? You could also try bleaching the stripes on him maybe?

Sloop! May I suggest air brushing white tiger stripes, and using chunky resin glitters in the the colors you were going for before and gluing them in with a tiny speck of all purpose glue? You could scatter the glitter and set it in a way that adds the pop of color you are looking for, and the stripes can be bands of stars.

Hi Kaype! I stumbled upon this video after binge-watching the others (and yes, Dollightful brought me here hehe). I have a sollution for the orange stripes: use bleach or watered down bleach. You were talking about the white to yellow to orange and I was thinking about color theory and how every time it would problably become green.... but textile and bleach work out differently! If you ever used bleach to clean a toilet and accidentally wore black, you will notice that every spec of bleach that got on your clothes, turned them into a bright or even light orange. I also did this to some blue, pink and a red towel. They all turned.... orange! For safety reasons and health reasons, I think you could try to water down some bleach, test on a spare blue fur piece and check the texture. I'm pretty sure it would behave like watered down paint and you could easily paint the stripes in it. And when you return with the yellow on top of the orange, it's not gonna turn blue bc the pigments wont be 100% there! Anyways, I loved discovering your channel and I know I'm late to the party, but I just love tigers! I even sent your Houndoon video to my bf and he said it was an awesome doll!

I love your vids!! We all make mistakes or things just don't go quite right & it's good to show those too. I can't begin to count how many times I've torn out mistakes, or just start over, hours of work just gone BUT if they don't look good to my eye, no one sees them. Everyone starts somewhere & it's a rare time it will come out exactly as a video/someone else does it. Very rare. It's all in the learning and some of those mistakes? They might be a perfect application for something else!

Girlll I LOVED how those stripes looked! I would've bought that in a heart beat

I think you should hold on to him, he might turn out amazing you should always give things a second chance! I believe in you, Kaypea!

I think the needle felting would be awesome or you can turn him into a galaxy and use pinks/purples/whites. If you kept the green stripes he could have been a nature spirit with some flowers. There’s a lot of possibilities with this guy! Don’t give up! 🥰

Господи боже Я ТАК ЛЮБЛЮ ВАШИ ВИДЕО!!! они очень вдохновляют и вселяют уверенность в свои силы, очень позитивно и круто!! 😭❤️

I think you should use the base as a panther and make him into a galaxy panther! the colour lends a little bit more to that and as you said, the face sculpt is more 'generic big cat' than specifically tiger. I think he's looking so good even through the struggles you had so it'd be a shame to stop now! (really love your content and all the positive vibes I get from watching, keep up being awesome!) also SLOOP

Yo, you tell me that there nothing special or beautiful at the end of the video? YES THERE IS SOMTHING beautiful AND SPECIAL THING AT THE END! You are the most loving and kind person ever, so daily reminder: EVERYTHING YOU MAKE IS SO GOOD, IT DONT MATTER WHAT OTHERS SAY

This just popped up in my recs with the air dragon and I decided to watch it again because why not? I hope you've had enough time to be ready to pick this guy up again. Maybe next time a big project is taking up too much time you can finish this guy off as a quickie? I mean he's already like 75% done and would probably leave you feeling pretty triumphant!

For the effect you want I think you'll need to put in a yellow/golden fur but using a doll rerooting technique (part the blue fur and insert small tufts of golden one at a time). Maybe look into fur/eyelash yarn as well.

I love how ur editer talks to u with the editing

Oh please don't say you hate him or that he's ugly, he's stunning, you can always unpick the needle felting, part the fur where you want the stripe and place the fibre in the same direction of the fur in short tufts and felt in the middle, then fold the fibre over anchor along the edge the brush in with the fur, hope that makes sense. I would love to foster him and try to create your image, but it's a long way to the north of Britain lol. Need to say, not much makes me smile since I've been off ill from work (nearly 2 years) but your my go to, one day I will finish my huge pile of unfinished items, only that way because I'm so scared of people seeing all the mistakes or bad bits that I know are there, so easier to put them away lol. Your stunning art and happy demeanour make my eyes holes leak, especially when you say we matter and we can do things. Maybe one day I'll be brave enough to send you a pic of some of my unfinished things, ... finished .... maybe .. one day 😬. 💕 Never stop creating, you are such an inspiration and so loved. 💕🤗 Thank you.

These kinds of videos are so incredibly important! We love when you make your beautiful creations, but it's inspiring to see REAL LIFE failures and obstacles and art-blocks and how creators overcome them or learn from them. If anything you'll only gain more respect!

Love all your video's but thank you for proving there is failure before and during to gain success. Awesome 💗💗💗

Needle felting is such good trick for scars on art dolls!

The reason why I would love for you to show or is because you're so much relatable than some of the other ones I feel like if we were around each other we would be real good friends that's how much you inspire me to be the person that I am and that's the reason why I love doing the things that I do with my dog creations so your fails your wins all of that we love to be a part of

He is still cute, I would never consider any of your art a fail. He also could be a black panther. I really want to try this now and thank you for inspiring me. I love your channel so much!

I bought some grey fur trim that is in the yarn section. Its like really thin strips of faux fur. Get some of that in white and dye it the color you want. spread the blue fur (like parting hair) and tuck the trim in the gap and glue or sew it into place (or both?) try this method on the old body or a test scrap of your fur.

I like seeing art tubers "fails" because most of the time something they do gives me an idea in my completely random crafts

The tiger was absolutely gorgeous though! That color blue was an exceptional choice!❤️ Also, I would absolutely love to see you make Saphira from Eragon in the future! Love your videos!❤️

I just found this channel last night. I love this video, and I’m feeling encouraged to follow through with projects I’ve been wanting to attempt! I used to be great with clay but that was over ten years ago now. I love art dolls and dolls in general, plus I have vastly improved with sewing, have been learning crochet, and recently found my round looms for knitting. I want to create in this manner, I even have an idea to make species and such to help educate the public about proper animal husbandry. When I worked in the pet world, I learned too many people, pet owners and those who people commonly go to with the expectation to be educated for the pets, have no idea what they’re talking about and that’s sad. I miss working with clay in particular and I have some amazing clay I’ve toyed with a few months ago… I just find I lack confidence to put time and effort into any of my ideas that aren’t working (which is the one thing I know I have talent and skill with, tho I hate that lol)

Whenever u put the yellow on it looked pretty cool❤😊

For sure keep him! I say give him a restyle! Add some antlers! Some frost/snow patches on his fur maybe some shiney icy things. Ice white shiney eyes….He gives me snowy frosty furbaby vibes

My art teacher has a student in one of her classes and the person gave a couple drawings to the teacher. Lots of kids saw those and loved them and now that person has a fan club (I’m part of it) so they are creating a step by step guide to their style for us to try to replicate.

I feel like the orange needle felting would have worked if you airbrushed some orange around it along with some yellow? I think part of the reason you didn’t like it is because the orange didn’t mix well with the more cyanish area so airbrushing it yellow there would have made it fade nicer. Also, airbrushing orange around the sides would have brought out what you had felt poked much more as well.

I feel like he has a lot of potential!! You could ads some kind of star or something. He would look great with some kind of white stripes. Or even if you just added his eyes he would still be adorable!!!😍😍😍😍 So encouraged by this video!! As SLOOP!!

Thanks for sharing the strugle! Maybe you could try plugging the yarn like doll hair?

I love the blue and green look personally ❤

Sharing your failures only shows you are human. I like the raw type videos where mistakes are still put in videos instead of edited out cuz we all need to know that we're not alone. I love the concept and hope you can make the tiger work out one day cuz I'm sure it will be beautiful. Like bob ross says happy accidents.

Ngl the dark blue with black and the needle -felt orange gave me a very volcanic core vibe, like a deathwing type of feel haha. The recessed bits of orange just gave it that pop. Sometimes art pieces want to take their own direction, embrace that bois personality and make him what he wants to be lmao

A year ago, i started to make an art doll, and i failed HORIBLY. I tared it apart and ive been scared to try again since. This video really made me feel better!

You could try to shave in the stripes, and then make yarn wefts like you would for a doll wig, and glue or stitch or needle felt them in the indents? And then shave it again to make the fur even

Your so funny and adorable even , happy your on KZfaq and giving us great information on things some of us can’t figure out.

i think putting dark purple stripes on him could look very cool. you could also put some small yellow and white beads on him to mimic the stars

I was looking at your other starry themed dolls, and seeing the tiny stars on their backs gave me an idea. Maybe it'd be possible to glue tiny stars into the shape of stripes if that makes sense? Little yellow and orange stars glued into a line to make a stripe? Im not sure if that'd look good or not but it popped into my head. Great video! Tiger boy definitely deserves a redo 👏

I think your galaxy idea sounded cool! The white stripes were pretty, maybe you can do dark and light stripes and bright eyes, maybe stars splattered everywhere? I love your videos, thank you for sharing with us!

I think Otaku Tante is on to something with their tufts to make the stripes idea. Plus, with Halloween around the corner, you might be able to find actual glow yarn or similar to work in. Mostly I wanted to say this "Everyone messes up" vid was very timely for me. Your more free form way of furring has inspired me to try my hand at making some art dolls again, I have patterning and sowing. However, my "simple" warmup idea has been stalked for about 2 months while I try to get the head right and 4 failed attempts I was really close to just giving up on the concept. For some reason I thought it would be easy to combine a prehistoric hyena with a hawk/vulture and then decided to make it eyeless with 4 articulated mandibles for a lower jaw.

If you were still willing to try i have another idea, insted of felting all the wool into your piece lay the wool on the doll and poke your needle only across the middle. Now when you brush over it it now has some orange/yellow fur! Trim it and tada ittiy bitty bit of orange/yellow fur. Keep repeating until you have a good sized stripe. also ❤ ur videos!

That entrance was cute af! 🤣 and 15:12….. thank you for the amazing positive vibes! Could have tried some watered down gold acrylic paint on the some white air brushed stripes

The three things I can think of that could work. Needle felting but only felt in one end of the fiber so the other end of the fiber stays out like fur. Or….. do like you would on a re-root doll hair. The easiest way would be to put the fur fabric on inside out and mark where your lines would go and then take the fabric off the tiger use brushed out yarn or a different fiber knot one end and pull through fabric leaving long strands on the right side of the fabrics and knots inside on the wrong side. Do this with many strands and follow the lines. When done put back on and trim down. There are different ways that you could use to secure the fiber on the inside if knots don’t work. Or appliqué the stripes into the blue fur. But, I think that you will figure a way to complete your vision don’t give up because every time you think you’ve failed you haven’t. YOU’VE LEARNED SOMETHING FROM IT!